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The Effects of Missed Sleep

Sleep is cumulative; if you lose sleep one day, you feel it the next. If you miss adequate sleep several days in a row, you build up a ‘sleep deficit’, which impairs the following:

• Reaction time
• Judgment
• Vision
• Information processing
• Short-term memory
• Performance
• Motivation
• Vigilance
• Patience

Fatigued people also experience more moodiness, aggressive behaviors, burnout, and more stress.

THE BENEFITS OF FLOATING FOR YOUR BODY

• Improved physiological parameters for relaxation:
 Reduction of arterial pressure
 Cardiac variability balance
 Respiratory rhythm
 Increase of serotonin production (hormone of happiness)
• Improved lymphatic and venous drainage
• Reduction of body inflammations
• Immune booster
• Reduction of muscular and joint pain
• Distension and relaxation of the spinal column
• Saving of body energy (since the membrane temperature is likely to equal the basal one)
• Improved muscle recovery
• Improved muscle tone and oxygenation
• Lactic acid drainage and elimination of metabolic wastes
• Improved athletic performances

THE BENEFITS OF FLOATING FOR YOUR MIND

• Improved sleep quality and insomnia reduction
• Improved recovery from jet-lag
• Improved learning and cognitive abilities:
• Creativity
• Brilliance
• Lucidity
• Speed of learning
• Concentration
• Focus
• Problem solving
• Stress reduction
• Reduction of stress psychological side-effects:
• Irritability
• Vacillating mood
• Hyperactivity/hypotonicity, chronic sadness or tightness
• Unmotivated fears or chronic worries
• Reduction of stress physical side-effects:
• Headache
• Abdominal pain
• Tachycardia and high blood pressure
• Muscle tension
• Gastrointestinal disorders
• Chronic fatigue

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Power naps are great because you won’t experience any sluggish or drowsy feelings after waking. This is because you do not enter any deep sleep during this brief time.

Research suggests, a brief, early-to-mid-afternoon nap provides the greatest rejuvenation when compared to naps at any other time of the day.

There’s no need to feel guilty about napping—as long as you’re doing it right The benefits of napping are similar to those experienced after drinking coffee, but without the side effects of caffeine dependence.

Researchers tested four nap time spans: 5, 10, 20 and 30 minutes (and a control group that didn’t nap). They then tested participants across several benefits for three hours after the nap. Here’s a summary of the results:

• The 5-minute nap produced few benefits in comparison with the no-nap control.

• The 10-minute nap produced immediate improvements in all outcome measures (including sleep latency, subjective sleepiness, fatigue, vigor, and cognitive performance), with some of these benefits maintained for as long as 155 minutes.

• The 20-minute nap was associated with improvements emerging 35 minutes after napping and lasting up to 125 minutes after napping.

• The 30-minute nap produced a period of impaired alertness and performance immediately after napping, indicative of sleep inertia, followed by improvements lasting up to 155 minutes after the nap.

Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/daviddisalvo/2012/07/24/why-you-should-take-a-10-minute-nap-every-day/

There are two ways to wake up from a nap: refreshed, invigorated and raring to go, or like a reanimated co**se who isn't sure what century it is.

Limiting your naps to 30 minutes or less get the most out of a nap as it prevents sleep-inducing melatonin from building up in the body.

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