Be a hero – have a nap
August 2009 is National Napping Month, so do your patriotic duty and catch a nap at work. It’s also National Inventors Month, so napping would also honor Edison the inventor, who boasted of needing very little sleep. But he did take naps on the quiet.
I like what the good doctor Dement says “My fellow sleep specialist and I are campaigning to rehabilitate napping and demonstrate that taking naps is an excellent and respectable strategy for sleep management. Naps can make you smarter, faster and safer than you would be without them. They should be widely recognized as a powerful tool in battling fatigue, and the person who chooses to nap should be regarded as heroic.” (William C. Dement, The Promise of Sleep, 1999).
There are those who take the napping life pretty seriously – they call it polyphasic sleeping. For a great overview see this polyphasic portal
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- Good SleepSome new research suggests the purpose of sleep is to restore the synapses. If we have a sleep deficit we don’t function as well and may fall asleep at the wrong moment, endangering our self and others. There are simple things we can do to improve sleep.
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[...] to the very useful blog “The Sleep Process” for the info, as well as for this awesome quote on napping to celebrate the occasion: “My [...]
I was thinking more in terms of a medal for your willingness to boldly go where none have gone before, but if you want flowers, they have to be digital. For a star:
http://flowers109.tripod.com/fota2-may09.jpg
Dave
(apologies for klunkyness, can’t get the link to work right)