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
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
That short-sleeping that we're now suffering is a consequence of our lifestyle. It's not a consequence of evolutionary habituation. — 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
By keeping patients awake for longer, we build up a strong sleep pressure. — Matthew Walker Copy Share Image
Dream sleep provides a fascinating neurochemical soothing balm. It is during dream sleep and only during dream sleep when our brain shuts… — Matthew Walker Copy Share Image
“The best bridge between despair and hope is a good night’s sleep.” — Matthew Walker 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
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
Stay away from screens, especially those LED screens. Those blue-light emitting devices fool your brain into thinking that it's still daytime, even… — Matthew Walker Copy Share Image
“REM sleep ushers you into a preposterous theater wherein you are treated to a bizarre, highly associative carnival of autobiographical themes.” — Matthew Walker 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 Copy Share Image
Deep non-REM sleep almost hits the save button on those recently acquired informational pieces so that when you wake up the next… — 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
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
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
“Sleep is the single most effective thing we can do to reset our brain and body health each day -- Mother Nature's… — Matthew Walker 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
No aspect of our biology is left unscathed by sleep deprivation. It sinks down into every possible nook and cranny. And yet… — 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
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
“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
