Based on the science, you can make somewhat clear statements: The number of people who can survive on six hours of sleep… — Matthew Walker Copy Share Image
If sleep does not provide a remarkable set of benefits, then it's the biggest mistake the evolutionary process has ever made. — Matthew Walker Copy Share Image
I think the first general point to make from epidemiological studies across millions of people is the following - that short sleep… — Matthew Walker Copy Share Image
“the shorter your sleep, the shorter your life. The leading causes of disease and death in developed nations—diseases that are crippling health-care… — Matthew Walker Copy Share Image
I think sleep is probably the neglected stepsister in the health conversation today. I think we've done a good job regarding physical… — Matthew Walker Copy Share Image
As you try to tweak your sleep one way or the other, you might be, you might be doing great - you… — Matthew Walker Copy Share Image
When I give lectures, people will wait behind until there is no one around and then tell me quietly, 'I seem to… — Matthew Walker Copy Share Image
You're trying to sleep off a debt that you've lumbered your brain and body with during the week, and wouldn't it be… — Matthew Walker Copy Share Image
Human beings are the only species that deliberately deprive themselves of sleep for no apparent gain. Many people walk through their lives… — Matthew Walker Copy Share Image
I have long been puzzled by the entrenched mentality, and often enforced practice, of longer work hours and less sleep. Innumerable policies… — Matthew Walker Copy Share Image
Falling asleep is like landing a plane. It takes time. You've got to sort of gradually descend. I think one of the… — Matthew Walker Copy Share Image
If you look at how humans tend to want to sleep, it seems to be either, you know, sort of a monophasic… — Matthew Walker Copy Share Image
We know that efficiency and effectiveness are increased when you're getting sufficient sleep, and it will take you longer to do the… — Matthew Walker Copy Share Image
People dramatically underestimate how much sleep is linked to all the diseases killing us. We know a lack of sleep is linked… — Matthew Walker Copy Share Image
If we didn't need eight hours of sleep and could survive on six, Mother Nature would have done away with 25 percent… — Matthew Walker Copy Share Image
It's during dream sleep where we start to actually take the sting out of difficult, even traumatic, emotional experiences that we've been… — Matthew Walker Copy Share Image
“Routinely sleeping less than six or seven hours a night demolishes your immune system, more than doubling your risk of cancer.” — Matthew Walker Copy Share
You're trying to sleep off a debt that you've lumbered your brain and body with during the week, and wouldn't it be lovely if… — Matthew Walker Copy Share
I think we perhaps are, with sleep, where we were with smoking about 50 years ago, in that we had all of the science,… — Matthew Walker Copy Share
It's simply that older adults don't seem to be able to generate sleep efficiently, and that's why they're not getting it. — Matthew Walker Copy Share
The time of night when you sleep makes a significant difference in terms of the structure and quality of your sleep. — Matthew Walker Copy Share
Do you tend to sleep in during the weekends? That usually signals that you're trying to sleep off a debt you've accumulated during the… — Matthew Walker Copy Share
No one wants to give up time with their family or entertainment, so they give up sleep instead. — Matthew Walker Copy Share
If sleep does not provide a remarkable set of benefits, then it's the biggest mistake the evolutionary process has ever made. — Matthew Walker Copy Share
Your subjective sense of how well you're doing under conditions of sleep deprivation is a miserable predictor of, objectively, how you actually are doing. — Matthew Walker Copy Share
If you were not to set an alarm clock, would you sleep past it? If the answer is yes, then there is clearly more… — Matthew Walker Copy Share
Friends say, 'Shall we go out to dinner at 8?' I say, 'I can't, I'm a 10 A.M.-till-6:30 P.M. kind of guy.' I keep… — Matthew Walker Copy Share
We know that efficiency and effectiveness are increased when you're getting sufficient sleep, and it will take you longer to do the same thing… — Matthew Walker Copy Share
As you try to tweak your sleep one way or the other, you might be, you might be doing great - you might do… — Matthew Walker Copy Share
