This is a news that will delight the followers of the nap. German researchers have found that UNeeste 20 minutes is beneficial for your brain. Brain areas, dreams … How to explain this observation?
Researchers call it The Eureka effect. Have you ever taken a nap and found as a miracle, upon waking, a solution to your problem? Neuroscientists have succeeded in proving that this phenomenon is very real.
To do this, they have selected 90 people they made thought of a logical problem. Before sleeping, most of them did not find the solution. The rest of the experience was simple, sleeping. Following this rest period, the results were very promising. After a 20 -minute nap, 70% of them had the solution to the problem posed.
What do professionals think?
Professor Pierre-Alexis Geoffroy is a psychiatrist and sleep doctor at Paris Cité University. According to him, the explanation of this phenomenon is simple.
In the brain, when you sleep, you will do associations between different brain areasespecially during the dream. It is during these that you will find the solution. Unconsciously, you will again think of the problem.
At rest, It is easier to find new combinations than in awake phase. This study therefore makes it possible to correct a received idea. Short naps are not loss of time. On the contrary, they allow alarm to be more inspired and more efficient, particularly at work.
