Ask Madden

yo yo...so today i was getting a physical at work and me and the flight doctor got talking about sleep. He taught me some interesting things. He was saying ideal naps are either 15-20 minutes, or 1.5 hours...he was explaining sleep cycles, and that you feel unrested and even more tired when you wake yourself in the middle of cycles, which are usually 1.5 hours...he said the whole 8 hours a night thing doesnt really make sense...he said 6 or 7.5 is better...and he was saying that you can function on 2 groups of 3 hour sleeps per day for several months, but u couldn't on 4 groups of 1.5 hr sleeps because your sleep cycle gets more powerful as it goes into the second one...he was saying how people will say "oh i slept too long i feel awful" have it wrong, that its not that you slept too long, its that you woke up at the wrong time, in the middle of a cycle, it was interesting stuff
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