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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>What I’m wondering is what happens neurologically that makes this true?
Sleep isn’t only a neurological ‘state’, all your body { physiology} is involved, in a short nap you body can’t quickly go into a deep state and sleep cycle so you can’t add up that little rest.
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