[Vivienne]

Do you like/believe in power naps during the day?

Edith B. was discussing this on Friday, as it seems a study has shown that just a 6-minute snooze can significantly improve memory.

Even Einstein power-napped (according to a listener). He snoozed with a coin in his hand, which used to drop onto the floor after 3 minutes, woke him up, and he was once again re-vitalised!!

On Friday, R1 decided to have a national 6-minute power nap. An interesting idea, except for one thing: the next time, it may be more useful to have nice, soothing ballads for the 6 minutes, rather than what pretty much amounted to a rock concert!!

[Ballbag]

Viv, you ever thought of setting up an edithbowman.net.... or perhaps a nihal.net.

Then you could post all of these questions in there.

[wurzel]

Even Einstein power-napped (according to a listener). He snoozed with a coin in his hand, which used to drop onto the floor after 3 minutes, woke him up, and he was once again re-vitalised!!

Wasnt it not after 6 minutes it dropped on the floor!?

[Vivienne]

No, Wurz, apparently for Einstein, he was OK again after 3 mins. From 7 minutes onward, it seems a person goes into Phase II of sleep, rather than just stopping at Phase I (the six-minute thing).

[Yudster]

I know people who do this, apparently 20 minutes is the optimum time for most people, after that you go into a deeper sleep and if you then wake up before that's finished naturally, you feel like seven kinds of shit. Some people swear by it, but the one thing I can't understand about it is - just because you say "ok, I'm going to sleep now for 20 minutes" (or whatever) - how do you then just drop off immediately on demand? I certainly couldn't.

[wurzel]

No, Wurz, apparently for Einstein, he was OK again after 3 mins. From 7 minutes onward, it seems a person goes into Phase II of sleep, rather than just stopping at Phase I (the six-minute thing).

Well im fairly sure tha ti heard them say it was after 6 minutes but still, your right again arent you.

[Vivienne]

I'm not necessary "right", no.. but they did say on the radio 6 minutes, but a listener texted in to say Einstein was only 3.

[Console]

I'm going to sleep now for 20 minutes" (or whatever) - how do you then just drop off immediately on demand? I certainly couldn't.

I tried doing a polyphasic sleep schedule once, 20-25 mins of sleep every four hours - after a while, you can fall to sleep pretty quickly. It was quite an interesting experiment, although I found that my ability to think was severely reduced so I stopped it - I can live with sleeping four more hours a day.

[Vivienne]

I love that word, Cons: polyphasic.

[MK Chris]

I don't have time to sleep in the day. I work, then I play table tennis, swim or go to the pub.

[Vivienne]

I just plain don't like to do it. I texted this in to Edith. I just keep going, and sleep at night.