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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 12 January 2025. Short period of sleep during typical waking hours For other uses, see Nap (disambiguation). A man napping in a hammock, on a patio in Costa Rica A nap is a short period of sleep, typically taken during daytime hours as an adjunct to the usual nocturnal sleep period. Naps are most often ...
Naps should be 60 to 90 minutes for the greatest benefits but any longer may result in affecting a person's circadian rhythm. [60] [61] After napping, a person can wake with sleep inertia, where a person feels groggy or disoriented after waking. [59] Naps have positive short term effects, especially in improving performance and attention. [59]
Other aspects of sleep health have been associated with obesity, including daytime napping, sleep timing, the variability of sleep timing, and low sleep efficiency. However, sleep duration is the most-studied for its impact on obesity. [124] Sleep problems have been frequently viewed as a symptom of mental illness rather than a causative factor.
Emotions play a key role in overall mental health, [1] and sleep plays a crucial role in maintaining the optimal homeostasis of emotional functioning. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Deficient sleep, both in the form of sleep deprivation and restriction, adversely impacts emotion generation, emotion regulation , and emotional expression .
Mental health encompasses emotional, psychological, and social well-being, influencing cognition, perception, and behavior.According to the World Health Organization (WHO), it is a "state of well-being in which the individual realizes his or her abilities, can cope with the normal stresses of life, can work productively and fruitfully, and can contribute to his or her community". [1]
Signal noise affects many aspect of the central nervous system. [129] Understanding the relationship between wakefulness and entropy can be approached from the field of statistical mechanics . At a substratum level, interactions with the environment increase the number of possible micro states of the nervous system and this leads to an increase ...
A Flinders University study of individuals restricted to only five hours of sleep per night found a 10-minute nap was overall the most recuperative nap duration of various nap lengths they examined (lengths of 0 min, 5 min, 10 min, 20 min, and 30 minutes): the 5-minute nap produced few benefits in comparison with the no-nap control; the 10 ...
A sleep pod, also known as nap pod, napping pod, or nap capsule, is a special type of structure or chair that allows people to nap. Users use the pods to take private sleep breaks, often aided by technology and ambient features. Nap pods have emerged in corporate environments, hospitals, universities, airports and other public places.