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Short afternoon naps at the workplace lead…

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“Short afternoon naps at the workplace lead to significant increases in productivity, psychological well-being and cognition. In contrast, an extra 30 minutes sleep at night shows no similar improvements.” [Pedro Bessone]

Within Islamic Culture, the practice of praying Tahajjud, the voluntary prayers made during the last third of the night, plus the Siesta, the short nap taken after the Dhuhr Mid-Day prayers, seems to align with this research.

https://academic.oup.com/qje/article-abstract/136/3/1887/6217436?redirectedFrom=fulltext

In the early 1990s psychiatrist Thomas Wehr…

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“…In the early 1990s, psychiatrist Thomas Wehr conducted an experiment in which a group of people were plunged into darkness for 14 hours every day for a month.


It took some time for their sleep to regulate but by the fourth week the subjects had settled into a very distinct sleeping pattern. They slept first for four hours, then woke for one or two hours before falling into a second four-hour sleep.


Though sleep scientists were impressed by the study, among the general public the idea that we must sleep for eight consecutive hours persists. “

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-16964783