We asked five experts: Should we nap during the day?

The Conversation has asked five experts if we should nap during the day.

It’s important to keep your daytime naps to 10 to 30 minutes and no longer.

It’s important to keep your daytime naps to 10 to 30 minutes and no longer. Source: zohre nemati unsplash, CC BY

Often during the day I feel the need to have a bit of a lie-down. Whether it’s been a busy day, I didn’t sleep well the night before, or for no particular reason I know of.

But some will warn that you’ll be ruined for sleep that night if you nap during the day.

We asked five experts if we should nap during the day.

Four out of five experts said yes

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Here are their detailed responses:


If you have a “yes or no” health question you’d like posed to Five Experts, email your suggestion to: alexandra.hansen@theconversation.edu.au


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None of the authors have any interests or affiliations to declare.

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