Saw this story on TV today and had to share:
http://thechart.blogs.cnn.com/2011/0...iref=allsearch
Sorry girls, you're out of luck. This only says men!Swiss researchers monitored the brain activity of 12 men during a 45-minute nap on a stationary bed and a nap of the same length on a gently rocking bed designed to simulate a hammock.
When they were in the "hammock," the men drifted off to sleep one minute faster, on average, and entered a deeper stage of sleep more than three minutes faster than when they napped in the still bed, the researchers found.
In addition, the researchers were surprised to discover that the men, while rocking, spent nearly five more minutes in that second stage of sleep (known as N2), which typically makes up about half of a normal night's rest. They also spent less time in the initial stage that serves as a transition between wakefulness and sleep.
Looks like we're going mainstream! (Now Cannibal won't be so weird... )
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