Naptime justified: It solidifies long term memory. Boo ya!

(THIS IS ME AND BOAZY, THE KING OF KATS, SNOOZING AT MY COUSIN’S IN NYC A COUPLE YEARS AGO)
So recently I’ve started dividing my friends into nappers and non nappers. I find that the non nappers are quite unsympathetic to the nappers and write them off as lay abouts. But! Wait!! They serve a function. Other than snoozing through the doldrums of the day. They work to solidify long term memory. How cool is that??

This is very welcome news because lately I’ve taken to cat napping one of our office cats and taking a cat nap with her on the love seat in the conference room. Her purring is better than a low rpm car engine at sending me to dreamland. And, now that the researchers from University of Haifa’s Center for Brain and Behavior Research in Israel mention it, it really might quicken the “storage of long-term memory.” Mind you, in their experiments they found this was only true of 90 minute naps. And well, I rarely conk out for that long. But maybe I should. For the betterment of the speed at which I consolidate my long-term memory.

Yeah, that’s totally what I’m going to start calling it. Practice it with me fellow nappers: “Pshaw. I’m not NAPPING! Jeee-ez. I’m consolidating my long term memory. Like, duh!”