Nap time! Weekends!

Short naps have always been recommended for a mental boost.

Not just that, weekend naps featured in your nap schedule can help reduce fatigue, increase awareness and alertness, enhance your mood, cause better memory, better response, improve performance at work, and so much more provided you get a healthy nap time.

Weekend naps are essential. Here are some reasons why:

When you don’t get enough healthy sleep during the week

Your coffee intake will be under control

Gives your brain the rest it needs

You deserve it

Nothing is universally good for everyone. An afternoon nap can cause issues such as sleep inertia.

When the nap sleep is not timed, it can make you feel groggy and irritated. If you are not used to naps, even a healthy nap time, could also leave you feeling disoriented for a while. An afternoon nap is a bad idea for people with insomnia as it can worsen your sleep quality at night. Long naps even at a healthy nap time especially can degrade the problem of lack of sleep at night.

However, if these conditions don’t apply to you, then consider taking an afternoon nap this weekend as it is healthy and refreshing. It is a long weekend after all!
 

Sources: Wake Fit