Soren Kierkegaard said that “sleeping is the highest accomplishment of genius”. And, now a University of California Berkley may have just proven him right.

The study shows that even a 1 hour nap can significantly increase your brain power. Further, the study suggests that a two phased sleep schedule can actually make you smarter. In fact, the longer you spend awake without a sleep break, the more sluggish your brain becomes.

“Sleep not only rights the wrong of prolonged wakefulness but, at a neurocognitive level, it moves you beyond where you were before you took a nap,” said Matthew Walker, an assistant professor of psychology at UC Berkeley and the lead investigator of these studies.

“I can’t imagine Mother Nature would have us spend 50 percent of the night going from one sleep stage to another for no reason,” Walker said. “Sleep is sophisticated. It acts locally to give us what we need.”

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