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Andy Matuschak
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Lit/twit review request: at what exchange rate do siesta naps (20-30m at hour 7-8) reduce night sleep requirements? i.e. If you take a nap to improve afternoon concentration, do you "pay" with more total time slept? Or is it "free" if you can arrange your schedule accordingly?
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Andy Matuschak
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Following up three months later: I've been doing ~daily 20-30m naps at waking hour 7-8, and my natural overnight sleep requirement doesn't seem to have changed (I sleep until I wake naturally without alarm). So sleep's eating more net time, but I do have more energy in afternoon.
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Pamela J. Hobart
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Sometimes in young children it’s actually that a nap gets them *more* night sleep (in child who is baseline exhausted/frazzled/hard to settle) It wears off quick though, within first 12 months. Then you pay for naps approx 1:1 as far as I can tell
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Divia Eden 🔍
@diviacaroline
I never observed the sleep begets sleep thing with my babies—only the opposite! (And I did some tracking, so the data was somewhat quantitative.)
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Jesse Evers
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You also have to factor in the cost of the period after the nap where your brain doesn’t work for a while, even though you’re no longer asleep (at least that’s what it’s like for me)
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