Regular naps are 'key to learning'

Re:Regular naps are 'key to learning' by clavalle on Tuesday January 13, 2015 @10:15AM (#8880318)

We have a server room that is almost empty these days. I unabashedly advocate for a cot or a hammock in there.

I like to think of sleep as clearing my working memory: the important stuff gets saved and the cruft is cleared and, one hopes, that a bit of subconscious processing takes place.

It is so much more effective to sleep for 10 or 20 minutes and come back to a problem fresh than struggle with your brain's garbage collection for several hours.

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Re:Regular naps are 'key to learning' by saraid216 on Tuesday January 13, 2015 @11:00AM (#8880606)

There was a science thing several months ago about how one of the functions of sleep was to flush toxins from your brain. So you're not wrong?

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Re:Regular naps are 'key to learning' by tannerc on Tuesday January 13, 2015 @12:37PM (#8881286)

Here's the NPR story on that research: http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2013/10/18/236211811/brains-...

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Re:Regular naps are 'key to learning' by click170 on Tuesday January 13, 2015 @11:14AM (#8880686)

Was it Sleepless In America?

If it was, I think it aired again recently. I didn't realize it wasn't new.

Highly recommend watching it. Not only does sleep help your brain flush the toxins that are produced as a byproduct of your brain, but cancer can grow twice as fast in tired mice compared to well rested mice. Do yourself a favor and check it out if you haven't seen it.

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