Nap On it

Sleeping isn't high on my list but as my friends and family know I love a good nap, contradictory yes but oh well. It's been pretty well documented that naps boost productivity and memory but now researchers are finding another benefit from naps.

From the BBC...

Sleeping on a problem really can help solve it, say scientists who found a dreamy nap boosts creative powers.

In the morning of the test day, 77 volunteers were given a series of creative problems to solve and were told to mull over the problem until the afternoon either by resting but staying awake or by taking a nap monitored by the scientists.

Compared with quiet rest and non-REM sleep, REM sleep increased the chances of success on the problem-solving task. The study at the University of California San Diego showed that the volunteers who entered REM during sleep improved their creative problem solving ability by almost 40%.

Napsterism vindicated again!