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
The amount of sleep - the total amount of sleep that you get - starts to decrease the older that we get.… — Matthew Walker Copy Share Image
I think many people walk through their lives in an under-slept state not realizing it. It's become this new natural baseline. — Matthew Walker 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
Regularity is a key: going to bed at the same time, waking up at the same time no matter what. But I… — 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
“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 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 lovely if… — Matthew Walker Copy Share Image
“The best bridge between despair and hope is a good night’s sleep.”VII” — 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 the science,… — 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
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 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 during the… — Matthew Walker Copy Share Image
No one wants to give up time with their family or entertainment, so they give up sleep instead. — 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
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
