INFOGRAPHICS: Interesting and useful facts about daylight dream

As a child I was not terribly fond of an afternoon nap, and I was even impossible to put in the garden. When I was in the older group, the teachers had given up on it's waste of time hand and allowed me to read during an afternoon nap. And only at the Institute, I realized the value of such an opportunity - to take a nap during the day a little after lunch.

Sleep during the day can be either those who work at home, or those lucky ones who rabotayutv companies that support this event. After only 26 minutes of the afternoon nap increases productivity by 34%, and care - 54%! Want to know more interesting facts?

duration

10-20 seconds - nano-nap.

from 2 to 5 minutes - micro-nap. Shows remarkable efficacy in the fight against sleepiness rolls.

from 5 to 20 minutes - mini-nap. Increases attentiveness, stamina, performance.

20 minutes - a real good sleep. It includes benefits and micro mini-dreams, and also improves muscle memory and clears the brain from too much information. Which in turn improves long-term memory.

from 50 to 90 minutes - the lazy man's slumber. It includes all phases of sleep and a positive effect on the processes of perception. Also during such a long afternoon nap regenerates bones and muscles.

Facts

Naps for 60 minutes improves vigilance. The effect may last for up to 10 hours.

Research conducted in conjunction with NASA's pilots, have shown that naps for 26 minutes in flight time (when the ship is managed by the autopilot) improves performance by 34% and care at 54%.

National Day Dream Day celebrated on March 14. For the first time this unofficial holiday was celebrated in 1999.

Most mammals sleep short periods during the day. Man canceled for yourself this intermediate sleep and left only a long night. But our bodies are still programmed for two periods of intensive sleep: from two nights to four in the morning and in the afternoon from one to three.

Players NBA and NHL like to sleep during the day.

In October 2010 Spain, Madrid hosted the first national championship of siesta. The winner won 1000 euros.

Recent studies have shown that sleep in the bed gently swaying helps fill faster.

Culture siesta reduces the likelihood of coronary heart disease. Studies carried out in Greece in 2007, showed that among 24,000 participants, those who slept during the day at least twice a week, reduced their chances of getting coronary heart disease by 12%. If the number of daytime siestas increased up to three times, the chances were reduced by as much as 37%!

Short naps:

- reduces drowsiness during the day at 10%;

- cheers up by 11%;

- improves the quality of the interaction by 10%;

- enhances care by 11%;

- increases productivity by 11%;

- improves brain activity is 9%;

- improves physical health by 6%;

- reduces the evening insomnia 14%;

- increases the ability to stay awake at night by 12%;

- increases the feeling refreshed upon waking at 5%;

- Increases sleep at night for about 20 minutes.

Companies that enter into the working schedule of naps

Nike. Employees Nike now has access to a quiet comfortable room for an afternoon nap.

Google. Google has specifically rented for employees campuses with a view of the mountains, where they can relax during the day.

British Airways Continental. The company British Airways Continental allows its pilots during a flight lasting a nap at the time when their substitute colleagues.

Seats for relaxing during the day has increased from 5% to 6% in 2011.

In a survey conducted by National Sleep Foundation, revealed that among 1508 adults surveyed 34% are allowed to sleep during the day, and 16% in the office for that special facilities are marked.

Naps in different countries

Naps originates from Muslim traditions and recorded in the Qur'an. The Spanish word comes from the Latin siesta Hora Sexto, which means a six-hour sleep.

The Romans had a siesta and it was more of a necessity than a luxury.

Something like that has a siesta in Serbia and Slovenia, and is called the "home rule." People cut off their phones and pay a visit to two days before five in the evening.

In Bengal the word that describes the tradition of afternoon nap - bhat-ghum, means rice-sleep - sleep in the afternoon.

In the south, the German-speaking regions or Mittagspause Mittagsruhe still relevant - in the afternoon shops are closed, and the children have to play in the street quiet.

IN the northern regions of India, there is also the concept of daytime sleep - sustana, which literally translates as "little nap." It need not be a day dream, a simple vacation also fits this definition.

Afternoon nap universally practiced in China and Taiwan and is called wujiao. In most schools, these countries have a break for a nap after lunch, which lasts half an hour.

In some offices in Japan there are rooms that are allocated specifically for the daily afternoon nap employees.

Naps and celebrities

Bill Clinton He slept during the day in the afternoon, during his tenure as US president. This helped him to cope with the pressure of office.

Johannes Brahms

dozing on her piano while composing his famous lullaby.

napoleon dozing between battles on horseback.

Churchill He spoke about the need to sleep in the afternoon. This helped him to cope with the responsibility that lay on it during the war.

Margaret Thatcher I am sleeping during the day in order to be in better shape.

Such genii as Thomas Addison and Leonardo da Vinci also loved to sleep in the afternoon.

Einstein napping during the day. This helped him to remain lucid. He dozed, sitting in his chair, holding a pencil. Once the pencil fell out of his hand, he immediately woke up. This helped him not to sink into a deep sleep, waking up after that is given much more difficult.

Lately, I feel like Einstein - I fall asleep for noutom and wake up as soon as I feel that the balance is lost and I'll knock his head on the table :)

And how do you feel about the daily sleep and would like you to at least a very brief siesta was resolved in your office?