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Controversy Of Naps

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There is a giant controversy of whether naps are healthy and benefit your health, or if they just waste your time and make you become even more groggy. Naps can be very beneficial for your health and can improve many aspects of the brain if taken correctly. Naps should only be 25-30 minutes or 90-100 minutes. If someone sleeps for the correct amount of time, you would wake up in the light sleep phase and recieve all of the benefits of sleeping at night. Waking up in the light sleep phase increases alertness, memory and you will feel more refreshed when you wake up. Waking up any earlier or later will cause you to wake up in other phases of sleep which will not benefit your health. If you wake up 40 minutes into the nap, you would interupt

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