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indents reveal the pros and cons of the midday power nap
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BY AMANDA PALM
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ary Breitling, a senior fi
nance major, is taking 12-
credit hours, working 20
rs per week, is involved in ex-
urricular activities and does
get enough sleep at night,
b compensate for the sleep
loses each night, Breitling
i power naps during the day.
;r naps are short naps, 20 to
inutes in length, which serve
evitalize the mind and body.
1 usually nap twice a week in
morning,” she said. “I’m up
7 [a.m.], so I usually nap
und 10:30 [a.m.] or so.”
Breitling said she naps more
uently on mornings after late
nt studying.
She said power naps do not al-
ys leave her feeling refreshed.
“If I stayed up until 2 [a.m.]
[dget up at 7 [a.m.], and I miss
usual six and a half to seven
|urs, then my body has to catch
somewhere,” she said. “But
en I wake up from a power
),Ifeel more lethargic than be-
eand very drained. My body is
nting more sleep rather than
eling energized.”
Matt Soileau, a freshman busi-
ss major, said he benefits from
[king power naps. He said he
jrnot go more than two days
ithout a power nap and said he
:ver wakes up from naps feeling
?d or lethargic.
He wakes up at 5:30 a.m. each
eekday and averages six and a
ialf hours of sleep per night. He
takes 20-minute to one-hour pow
er naps four times a week. Unlike
Breitling, Soileau said he feels re
freshed after taking a power nap.
“If I don’t take a nap, I can’t
function,” he said. “I’m tired, and
my body needs a recharge. When I
wake up from a nap, I feel refreshed
and able to function better.”
Soileau said his power naps pos
itively affect his studying ability.
“Without a nap, I function re
ally slow,” he said. “If I don’t get
any sleep during the day, I can’t
get any serious studying done.”
Tom DeLuca, a former thera
pist with a master’s degree in
psychology, is making power
napping popular with people
across the country.
He visits corporations and col
lege campuses, performing “The
Power Napping Workshop,” in
which he teaches people how to
power nap.
He claims power napping helps
people move quickly into a deep
state of rest for short periods of
time and that afternoon fatigue
can be rectified with a 20 to 30-
minute nap.
A medical report from the Uni
versity of Texas Southwestern Med
ical Center agrees with DeLuca’s.
Doctors said in general Ameri
cans tend to be sleep-deprived. To
make up for this deprivation, peo
ple try to catch up on sleep on
weekends. Doctors say trying to
play catch-up makes getting up
Monday morning much harder. To
make up for sleep deficits, people
need more sleep each day.
Breitling said she does not
catch up on her sleep during the
weekend. Instead, she tries to
trick herself into feeling as
though she got more sleep.
“I get the same amount of
sleep,” she said. “But I go to bed
later and sleep later. So I sleep
past my normal wake-up time,
which makes me feel like I got
more sleep.”
Soileau said he gets as much
extra sleep as he can during the
weekend, sleeping at least anoth
er two hours on Friday and Satur
day nights in order to catch up on
the sleep he missed.
The medical report also states
that a brief afternoon nap, usual
ly 20 to 30 minutes and taken
when a person is at his or her low
est energy level, can give a person
a boost for the rest of the day.
Soileau said his power naps re
fresh him completely.
“After a nap I have more ener
gy both physically and mentally,”
he said.
“Sometimes, I’ll wake up and
want to go back to bed, but once
1 start moving around, it’s good
that I took that nap.
“If I wake up and feel tired,
more than likely, it’s because I
slept too much. So the shorter the
nap, the better.”
Breitling said she does not be
lieve there are any benefits to
power napping.
“I don’t think I’m sleep-de
prived and I feel healthy,” she
said. “I think power napping is
just an excuse for people to be
lazy and not get something done
that they should.”
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