When you visit a foreign country, you are always surprised to find that certain lifestyles are totally different from ours… And that apparently, those who apply them do not fare worse! The Japanese for example, followers of rice and raw fish, could perhaps inspire us. Or the British, fans of split meals, and the Chinese, obsessed with their 30 minutes of daily gymnastics.
So many ancestral customs that continue to prove their worth. Very close to us there are the Spaniards. Their sense of celebration is accompanied by a very widespread practice, that of the daily nap. A habit that we take quite spontaneously on vacation, but which seems totally illusory when professional life resumes its rights.
Very serious researchers from Boston, in the United States, have shown that faced with a job that ends up becoming impossible because it is repetitive, a nap of around forty minutes is enough to be able to recover. As if the part of the brain put to the test by repetitive work had been regenerated by rest.
It is to the famous Harvard University that we owe information that will not displease the many children who get up late. Indeed, if we take two groups of volunteers and decide to teach them a certain number of tasks, repeated twelve hours later in order to assess their learning capacity, we see that those who have benefited of a long night’s sleep, between the two active moments, have a much better performance than those who have slept normally, that is to say not enough.
And the performances are even better if we add a good “lie-in” to the night. The explanation is probably due to the existence of a very rich phase of our sleep, called paradoxical sleep, which only occurs at the end of the night, and is often “zapped” by “getting up too early.” “. REM sleep because never has sleep been so deep and the brain so awake.
It is customary to say that after the repair phase – in the sense of repairing our body – this paradoxical sleep is that of the reorganization of the brain, therefore of remembering the learning phases.
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