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ShadiSpire

ShadiSpire

Syrian Arab Republic

October 9, 2010

This is how you take a good nap.

Before i tell you how, i want you to know what happen when you go to sleep at night.

When you go to sleep, your brain activity start to decrease, and within a few minutes your brain waves (activity) start to be flat, after 30 - 45 minute, you are in Stage 1, and you are asleep, after less than that time, you are in Stage 2, then 3 then 4 within an hour. So within 1 hour you are in the Stage 4 of sleep, stages 3 and 4 are called Deep Sleep, here your body take some real rest ;)

But you don't stay in stage 4 all the night, your sleep mode is like this:

Awake, 1, 2, 3, 4, 3, 2, REM, 2, 3, 4, 3, 2, REM, 2, 3, 4, 3, 2, REM....4, 3, 2, REMMMMMM, Awake.

that's what happen when you sleep. REM is the stage where your brain witness a high activity during your sleep, and your dreams is in this stage.

Now to have a healthy Nap, you should not go in stages 3 and 4. How?

Easy, you normally go in stages 3 and 4 within 45 to 60 minutes, so set your alarm to take a 45 to 60 min Nap. If you take a longer nap (more that 60 min) you will enter stages 3 and 4 (deep sleep) and when you wake up you will feel so tired, 'cause you enter deep sleep in a nap! and that's not good.

So, make your nap up to 60 min, if you wake up after a 45 to 60 min nap and you still tired, make your nap less than 45 min, make it 40 for example, till you wake up not tired ('cause people are not the same in the time that they enter stages 3 and 4)

Remember, you MUST NOT enter the 3, 4 stages in your nap, otherwise you will feel tired. If you succeed to make a nap without going in 3, 4 stages, you will feel so good when you wake up from your nap, it's not true that the longer your nap is the better for you, at all.

Remember that we all, in one day, slept for a moments (maybe in a bus, while waiting dinner...) and wake up feeling so good, that's it, your brain take some rest, without going in deep sleep stage, and That's what a REAL HEALTHY Nap is for :)

More entries: Lessons I`ve learned from my life, Make Yourself Happy (2), Things you don't know about your Body (2), Procrastination! Stop it, Naps! (1), Joy Garden ;), Our Life Seeds (4)

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02:13 AM Oct 11 2010

Chala Wang

Chala Wang
Taiwan

This is very useful:)!!