I’ve done a small amount of very basic research into why people don’t take a couple of naps throughout the day as opposed to sleeping in one big eight-ish hour chunk. Most of the stuff I’ve read talks most prominently about sleep cycles and how those affect your sleep, and that naps might not be suitable because you can’t predict sleep cycles to align with naps, and that sleeping in one big chunk allows you to go through multiple sleep cycles. What I’m wondering is what happens neurologically that makes this true? Why does sleep not add up to the sum of its parts, and what, if any are the pros of each compared to each other?
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Naps don’t provide the REM cycle. You can split it up if you allow big chunks where this cycle is completed, and some people do it. Our ancestors way way back apparently woke in the middle of the night.
It’s impractical for daily life.
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