Dr. Michael Grandner

It's why are you snacking?

Um, there's also a different kind of nap that shift workers can use.

And I call that a sleep replacement nap, sort of like a meal replacement shake where no one looks at that and thinks that that looks like a meal.

Uh, no one's confused that it's really a meal, but it does the trick in a pinch.

And what a sleep replacement nap is.

Athletes do this too when they, um, uh, especially when they're, when they have late games and they have to wake up in the morning, college students do this one all the time where you go through a full cycle.

You actually make it all and you get all, you get a whole cycle of deep sleep, which does exactly what it does at night too.

It's not quite, quite as good, but it, it, it does the trick and you want to wake up after you've made it all the way through in the middle of the night during your regular sleep period.

That'll take, you know, 90 to a hundred minutes during the day.

It might take two to three hours.

To make it all the way through because you're not expecting it.

You have a system to protect yourself from dropping into deep sleep during the day.

Your body doesn't want it there because it's trying to protect you.

But if you stay in your nap long enough, your body's like, all right, I guess we're doing this.

And so it gets in it and you get all the way through.

And if you wake up out of that feeling pretty good,

You know, that counts almost the same as nighttime sleep.

It's just most people don't have the three hours in the day to do that.

Shift workers do.

And so they can do like either like right after a shift or before a shift or something, you can do that.