For more context, I napped once a day for several months and would consistently find that:
1. It’s much easier to fall asleep for a nap than for the night
2. Napping doesn’t require darkness the same way regular sleep
3. Waking up after a nap feels more restful but also characteristically different–this might just be
4. If done after eating, grogginess can be paired with very mild heartburn.
I would like to understand all of how this works, either from a scientific perspective or just from people that understand sleep a little better than I do. Thank you!
In: Biology
It depends on whether or not you wake up after a REM cycle or not. You typically won’t have an alarm set when you are taking a nap, so most naps you wake up from will have you waking up after that cycle. You may typically have an alarm set at the end of a night’s sleep, which depending on when you fell asleep, will interrupt the cycle and have you feeling more tired. If you slept all night and woke up naturally, you would feel better.
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