It's not clear whether the brain actually is designed to have nightmares or whether this is actually the process going awry. — Matthew Walker Brain Copy Share Image
My name is Matthew Walker, I am a professor of neuroscience and psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, and I am… — Matthew Walker Books Copy Share Image
Below seven hours of sleep, there are objective impairments in the body. Eight hours are recommended. — Matthew Walker Body Copy Share Image
“Inadequate sleep—even moderate reductions for just one week—disrupts blood sugar levels so profoundly that you would be classified as pre-diabetic.” — 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 Biggest mistake Copy Share Image
Back in the 1940s, people were sleeping on average just a little bit over eight hours a night, and now, in the… — Matthew Walker Age Copy Share Image
Sleep is the Swiss army knife of health. When sleep is deficient, there is sickness and disease. And when sleep is abundant,… — Matthew Walker Army Copy Share Image
Based on the science, you can make somewhat clear statements: The number of people who can survive on six hours of sleep… — Matthew Walker People Copy Share Image
The fact that we don't have that biologic pressure to have highly polyphasic sleep, I think, probably tells us something in terms… — 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
What is dreaming, and what happens, and are there any real benefits to dreaming? Well, to take a step back, I think… — Matthew Walker Copy Share Image
Individuals fail to recognise how their perennial state of sleep deficiency has come to compromise their mental aptitude and physical vitality, including… — Matthew Walker Compromise Copy Share Image
Many business leaders still believe that time on-task equates to productivity. Even in the industrial era of rote factory work, this was… — Matthew Walker Copy Share Image
I think we perhaps are, with sleep, where we were with smoking about 50 years ago, in that we had all of… — 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
When I give lectures, people will wait behind until there is no one around and then tell me quietly, 'I seem to… — Matthew Walker People Copy Share Image
Some people actually sleep better when the significant other is with them. For other couples, it's the opposite. — Matthew Walker Copy Share Image
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 Image
Do you tend to sleep in during the weekends? That usually signals that you're trying to sleep off a debt you've accumulated… — 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 Body 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 Human 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 Diet 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
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 Day 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 Brain Copy Share Image
You should not actually stay in bed for very long awake, because your brain is this remarkably associative device, and it quickly… — Matthew Walker Brain Copy Share Image
We now know that we imprint information during the day. We sort of - that seed is planted there within the brain… — Matthew Walker Brain 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 Breast cancer 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 Mother Copy Share Image
“we estimate that more than 50 percent of all children with an ADHD diagnosis actually have a sleep disorder, yet a small… — Matthew Walker Adhd 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 Day Copy Share Image
