Thread: Regaurding Naps

I've poking around in the search option a bit but couldnt really find too much information on naps. The topics that were related to naps, seemed to be surrounded by uncertainty.

I wake up every morning at 4:15am to get to work at 5. This usually makes me get off work about 1:30pm and home by 2, which btw is the natural human naptime. If I slept a good rest the night before I will usually nap for 1 hour and experence no recall. But if Im short on sleep I can sleep up to 3-4 hours, and experience my best recall.

I read in some topic in these forums that sleeping during the day causes better recall, but have also read from those who take short naps during the day, that they experience no RC at all.

So the question thats is now in my head is hard to word. Basically I understand that REM periods during a full 8 hours sleep, will be near 1 hour at the end of the rest. But does the amount of REM increase based or the time you have been alseep, or rather how much you actually need the sleep.

So say I take a nap when I get home and Im ...
A) absolutely exausted. And sleep 4 hours.
B) a little drowsy. And sleep 4 hours.

I would like to asume the the longer REM periods would at the end of option B, and that I would likely have very little REM time during A.

Hope that made sense... anyway, feedback would be awsome. Thanks!