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Did you know that feeling sleepy in the afternoon is part of the normal human circadian rhythm? Humans typically have two periods in which they feel intensely sleepy. One is usually in the very early hours (around 3 in the morning), and the other is in the early afternoon, about ten hours after the first. You know that taking a nap can help increase your productivity and your mood, but do you know that there is a proper way to take a nap?

If you want to increase your concentration, take a short nap of about twenty minutes.

Everyone seems to believe that eight hours of sleep is required by everyone. That's not true because we are all different in our sleep requirements. The need for a certain number of hours of sleep is partly inherited. It could be a condition such as depression, heart disease or cancer that causes some to sleep more than others. Afternoon is a normal time to feel less energetic due to the circadian rhythms of sleep. In a week there is an amount of sleep each of us needs When we deprive ourselves of some of that sleep during a few days