The Coffee Nap?

Monday, Monday. Sometimes even if you try to go to bed early, you end up tossing and turning unable to fall asleep.  Lately, many of the articles that I stumbled upon seem to all have a common denominator. Sleep! Advice on how to get more sleep, warnings of negative health effects of no sleep….so I think I get it. Sleep equals happiness and tiredness equals wrinkles and illness.  But getting enough sleep is not as easy as it sounds.  Yesterday morning, I woke up early, hit the road running literally, drank coffee but not after lunch time only before, and I had supper cooked and eaten before 6 p.m. In theory, I should have been able to drift off to sleep.  Nope.  I woke up tired and sleepy.  (Maybe it has something to with waking up a 4 a.m. after a busy weekend? Who knows, still exhausted.) How does one get enough Z’s in one night?  There’s a group of researchers from Sydney, Australia that think they may have discovered a solution.  It is something called a coffee nap.  Apparently, one night of going to bed early is not enough to recharged the body, if you have been sleep-deprived for the last decade.   If you can’t remember the last time, you had a “good night’s” rest, then you are probably suffering from “sleep debt.”  You are in the negative.  You need sleep and lots of it.  You need naps.  And there is a type of nap called the “coffee nap” that supposedly will wake you up more than a regular nap.  Drink a cup a coffee, lay down and sleep for 15 minutes.  According to research, it takes 30-45 minutes for the caffeine to be distributed to your body, so combined with taking a quick nap, you wake up feeling recharged and awake. But the thing is, if it takes 30 minutes for caffeine to be absorbed by the body why do I feel like Speedy Gonzales after one sip? Oh well. Check out the article.

Daily Mail – Coffee Nap