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This Is How I Biohacked My Sleep

How I turned a 30-minute nap into a 2-hour siesta!

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Dec 28, 2020
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The other day I had an argument with a friend, he claimed that he doesn’t take naps because it “messes up his sleep during the night”, that if he slept during the day, he simply wouldn’t be able to sleep during the night and that he preferred to postpone rest until the moment he went to sleep because that way he would be more tired and fall asleep easier, duhh. I, as a napping activist, told him he was wrong. Taking a nap in the middle of the day actually has loads of cool benefits and is not just for kids, as he smugly pointed out.

In fact, there are studies that establish that we are designed to sleep twice a day, (more sleep, scientifically-backed, where do I sign!?) and that in reality, it is a very common habit in mammals (which we are, in case you didn’t know), and although napping has several different interpretations, there are literary records (an unnecessarily complicated expression to say books) that prove that napping has existed for thousands of years. Besides, think about this: why do we always get sleepy at 2 in the afternoon? It cannot be a coincidence, it’s s the Universe speaking, put it on loudspeaker baby!

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