The Nap, Perfected: Short rest, real returns

June Alderwood

A twenty-minute rest can leave you sharper or leave you groggy, and the difference comes down to details most people never learn. This is the short course in doing it well: the window of time that avoids deep sleep, the best hour of the afternoon to lie down, how light and temperature shape what happens in those minutes, and a wind-down routine that gets you settled fast. Calm, exact, and made for real afternoons.