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And that tends to get worse the longer you've been asleep.

So you really want to try to end your nap by 30 minutes.

So I tell people set an alarm so that you don't get into real deep sleep and get sleep inertia.

I would say in general, people are either good nappers or bad nappers.

And by good nappers, I mean they fall asleep and they wake up.

easily.

So I am a bad napper, so I don't take naps because I can't fall asleep.

And then if I do, I feel real groggy, right?

So most people kind of know if they're good nappers or bad nappers.

So people who are good nappers, if they're able to keep those naps brief before 3 p.m.

and it's not interfering with their nighttime sleep, it's great.

It's good.

It'll help boost their cognitive function.

You know, they've done studies looking at

um cognitive functioning and also uh for athletes it can help athletic function uh to to take a nap before before a competition or something so if if people can can nap well then then great but the naps can't be too long um i will add that unintentional naps are not good so people who are dozing off in the evening in front of the tv that is not a good nap so you know i kind of think of um

those that kind of sleeping as like junk sleep right that's that it's like eating junk food that is bad for yeah that's bad because it it uses up your sleep drive so then you don't get good sleep at night

And the quality of sleep that people are getting when they're kind of drowsy off and on is not good.

They're not getting into high quality sleep when they doze off.

So people who are finding that they are dozing off unintentionally, they really need to take measures to get adequate quantity or quality of sleep at night.

And if they really want or need, they can add a scheduled nap during the day.