A good night’s sleep can be hard to find for busy students, but a new study shows that a daytime nap can boost learning and memorization power in young adults. The idea certainly makes sense to meĀeven a short snooze has the power to leave me feeling exponentially more lucid than I was 20 minutes before.
Unfortunately, nap time during the school day pretty much disappeared after kindergarten. Even in college, when my dorm was just a short walk away, it was hard to find a time when work or class was not demanding my attention.
The new research, presented Sunday at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in San Diego, shows that young adults who took a 90-minute nap after eating lunch were able to boost their learning power, according to a Monday New York Times report.
Today, the New York Times posed the question, “do you get enough sleep?” to students on their education blog, The Learning Network. Most students replied that they were carrying some serious sleep debt, but highly doubt that schools would be amenable to giving students a free period to sleep. “If we told our school they probably would laugh at us,” one post commented.
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