Naps as short as 17 minutes can significantly improve learning, and NASA found that 26-minute naps improved mission performance by 34% and daytime alertness by 50%.

“What @NASA learned about the value of short naps for human performance in space has valuable applicability for those of us here on earth.”

“what they found was that these naps produced almost a 20% boost in short naaps 20% boost in their alertness and almost a 50% boost in their task productivity”

“What we've also found is that naps of as little as 17 minutes can have some quite potent effects on, for example, learning. None of this is novel. NASA pioneered this back in the 1990s. And during the missions, they were experimenting with NAPS for their astronauts. And what they found was that naps of little as 26 minutes improved um uh mission performance by 34% and improved daytime alertness by 50%.”