ZZz Zone in the library

Taking a short nap after working or studying is good to refresh your focus afterwards and become more productive. I have just found out that in The University of Manchester Library, they have provided a Zzz zone for students to take a short nap. This is how it looks like and they call it as the pod.

The Pod. The photo was taken from: http://www.library.manchester.ac.uk/locations-and-opening-hours/learning-commons/zzz-zone/

It was very funny because back in 2010, I used to study in this library at around 1 AM in the morning.At that time the library open for 24 hours as the students were having examinations. My friend and I took an opportunity of this 24 hours service to stay in the library for the whole night (only during exams, I will study at very long hours). However, we get tired after 2 AM and decided to take a nap at the sofa provided. After 30 minutes of relaxing on the sofa, a security guard came to us and ask us to go home if we want to sleep. We just want to sleep for a while, not for a long time but the guard tried to wake us up. Of course we cannot go home because there was no bus at 3 AM so we decided to stay in the library until 6 AM. 

Now after 5 years I left the library, they have provided this sleeping zone for the students to take a 20 minute nap. At first, I was surprised because I never been to any libraries with sleeping zone.Haha.....Yes, I had an experienced sleeping in the library when I did my internship at Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB) and I was being told not to sleep by the woman who is in charge of the library. But here in Manchester library, there is a hi-tech sleeping zone for you to take a nap (The pod has a music so that you can avoid any noises). 

Taking a short nap has been practiced a long time ago.The prophet Muhammad SAW will take a nap before Zuhur prayer in order to wake up early in the morning for tahajjud. Dr Simon Kyle who is a lecturer in Clinical and Health Psychology at The University of Manchester mentioned that taking a nap in daytime can refresh the learning potential of the brain. Providing a sleeping zone in the library is something unusual but this university has done something different to help the students in focusing their studies.

Recently, my dean of faculty send email to us, encourage for us to take a nap during lunch time in Ramadhan as it can help us to reduce tiredness due to 19 hours of fasting.

Yes, I'm going to take a nap right after this......