Well, in a lot of cultures, people DO sleep in the afternoon. My animals do too. For awhile the idea of a "power nap" was the rage: if you take a small nap in the middle of the day, it increases your mental acuity.
While small children typically take naps in the afternoon, our culture generally frowns upon mid-day sleep; however, even in those who get enough sleep (but particularly in those who don't), many people experience a natural increase in drowsiness in the afternoon, about 8 hours after waking. And research shows that you can make yourself more alert reduce stress and improve cognitive functioning with a nap. Mid-day sleep, or a 'power nap', means more patience, less stress, better reaction time, increased learning, more efficiency and better health.
I LOVE my 30 minute afternoon nap. Usually toward the end of it, I am semi-awake and that is when the solution to whatever daily problem I have appears in my head (sometimes I dream it).
On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 4:17 AM, tamaratornado <tamaratornado@yahoo.com> wrote:
I am noticing that I get sleepy in the afternoon sometimes, and sometimes before I eat, on an empty tummy, so maybe the sleepiness has nothing to do with food....
I don't get it every day, I get it off and on.
Sometimes the sleepiness is so heavy I have to lay down.
Other days I am not sleepy at all.
Also I tried eating a heavy meal late before bedtime, with some carbs too, and it didn't make me sleepy. (As I had hoped!)
So I have to watch more, what else is going on.
I drink tea some days, only in the morning. yet there doesn't seem to be a correlation...
- Tamara
--- In fast5@yahoogroups.com, "tamaratornado" <tamaratornado@...> wrote:
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> I sometimes feel sleepy after eating. I thought it meant that I was hypoglycemic. I notice though that I get sleepy after eating a no carb meal of meat and veggies, which doesn't make sense that way.
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> I am thinking to push my eating window back to just before bedtime. I ate at 5 pm yesterday and was sleepy til about 9:30 or 10, then I started to wake up. Maybe I should eat around 9 pm, I would get sleepy for my bedtime, that would be nice.
>
> One of my friends noticed he was sleepy after eating meat, and he went vegetarian because of it. I didn't agree with going vegetarian, but I don't have a solution for him either.
>
> - T
>
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