Most people dream of making their days as productive as possible. Scientists from the Sorbonne note that it is sleep that will help you successfully use your potential and reveal it not only at work.
How the new napping study fared
Scientists still discuss the exciting legend of the inventor Thomas Edison, who tried to get the maximum benefit from the fleeting moments of his sleep.
It is said that he fell asleep holding two steel balls in his hands. When the muscles began to relax, the balls fell to the floor and immediately woke the scientist.
Understanding that this unusual method allowed him not to lose creative ideas before falling asleep is essential.
Scientists from the Sorbonne decided to reproduce a similar method in laboratory conditions.
103 volunteers solved difficult numerical problems, after which they were given time to rest for 20 minutes in a quiet, dark room. The task was to transform sequences of numbers using simple rules, and each sequence had a second number that was always the correct final result. The discovery of this trick significantly reduced the time to solve the task.
Why napping can improve your quality of life
The study's authors draw attention to the fact that half of the participants could not fall asleep, 24 people had a shallow early sleep, and 14 fell into a deeper stage of sleep.
After rest, when returning to the tasks, the light sleepers found the hidden trick 2.7 times more likely than the non-sleepers and 5.8 times more likely than the deeper sleepers.
It is essential to understand that such drastic differences are rare in experiments of this type.
According to the researchers, the "creative cocktail of brain waves" that seemed to accompany this twilight stage were alpha brain waves, which generally mark relaxation, mixed with the delta waves of deeper sleep.
