Half-sleep

catalytic · **Joined:** Thu Feb 22, 2007 11:37 am **Posts:** 179

I wonder often, if the area between being awake and sleeping is still beneficial to your body's regeneration process. During school, I will often sit on the couch in the library during off-days from my college courses. Often, I will doze off but not fully go to sleep because of distractions and conversations across the room.

I obviously need the sleep, and would like to know if I am still reaping the benefits of being half asleep. If not, I might doing something more productive.

Teaser · **Joined:** Sat Mar 03, 2007 3:49 pm **Posts:** 239

There was something on the tv where they did a study on 40 workers and 20 of them went to bed for a "power nap" at lunch time and then had to go back to work and the people who didn't nap were more productive and got more sells in

So no naps during the day

Teaser · **Joined:** Sat Mar 03, 2007 3:49 pm **Posts:** 239

Oh i forgot to say since breaking my leg I have been having power naps and I always feel worse then if I don't nap

But I really wish I had something else to do

cmickieuk · **Joined:** Thu Feb 22, 2007 6:15 pm **Posts:** 389

I saw that on the news, they laid down 20 people on cot beds and gave them sleeping masks and gave them an hour and then woke them up - and well they hardly got any work done

catalytic · **Joined:** Thu Feb 22, 2007 11:37 am **Posts:** 179

If I was woken up after sleeping, I probably wouldn't perform well either. And if I napped on a continual basis, I wouldn't be as alert, and would therefore sell less.

I'm talking about having a lack of sleep one week, and having to nap to make up for it. If you are half awake when you are napping, do you still get the beneficial effects of sleep?

Kerry · **Joined:** Thu Mar 08, 2007 4:52 pm **Posts:** 149

I don't , if I have a nap during the day if the girls ever take a nap I feel worse

karan292 · **Joined:** Sat May 12, 2007 1:30 am **Posts:** 28

If I was woken up after sleeping, my whole day goes wrong as am noyt able to concentrate properly. so thats why ,i never sacrifice my sleep.

montana_4H_cowgirl_allie · **Posted:** Tue May 15, 2007 1:15 am

when you are in that mode of "dozing", it equates for roughly 30 percent of full, deep sleep i remember seeing ... as far as naps go, the time frame they give you for a nap is no more than 20 minutes ... any more than that interrupts your normal sleep cycle and your active awakenness to be productive during the day ...

nickflame · **Joined:** Wed Jun 06, 2007 4:57 am **Posts:** 114

it also happens to me but i usually feel more tired during that day than before.
the problem is for me that i wake up specially so that i can have my half sleep period before waking up completely'the half sleep period helps me to thing thoroughly about the day that is going to come.

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