By keeping patients awake for longer, we build up a strong sleep pressure. — Matthew Walker Build Copy Share Image
“The best bridge between despair and hope is a good night’s sleep.”VII” — Matthew Walker Good night Copy Share Image
I give myself a non-negotiable eight-hour sleep opportunity every night. — Matthew Walker Every night Copy Share Image
I just tell people I'm a dolphin trainer. It's better for everyone. — Matthew Walker Better Copy Share Image
“The best bridge between despair and hope is a good night’s sleep.” — Matthew Walker Despair Copy Share Image
Creativity is, after all, lauded as the engine of business innovation. — Matthew Walker Business Copy Share Image
No one would look at an infant baby asleep, and say 'What a lazy baby!' We know sleeping is non-negotiable for a… — Matthew Walker Abandoned Copy Share Image
No one wants to give up time with their family or entertainment, so they give up sleep instead. — Matthew Walker Entertainment 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 Evolutionary 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.'… — Matthew Walker Dinner 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… — Matthew Walker Alarm Copy Share Image
When did a doctor prescribe, not sleeping pills, but sleep itself? It needs to be prioritised, even incentivised. — Matthew Walker Doctor 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 I think Copy Share Image
It's not that we simply get old, and memory starts to go, and sleep starts to deteriorate. But those two things actually… — Matthew Walker Go 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 Age 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 Brain Copy Share Image
The gross demonstration of caffeine is that it prevents you from falling asleep. The slightly more nefarious aspect of caffeine is that… — Matthew Walker Caffeine Copy Share Image
“new report has discovered that medical errors are the third-leading cause of death among Americans after heart attacks and cancer. Sleeplessness undoubtedly… — Matthew Walker Death 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 Brain 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 I think 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 Back 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
“Without sufficient sleep, amyloid plaques build up in the brain, especially in deep-sleep-generating regions, attacking and degrading them. The loss of deep… — Matthew Walker Sleep Copy Share Image
“From this cascade comes a prediction: getting too little sleep across the adult life span will significantly raise your risk of developing… — Matthew Walker Adult life Copy Share Image
Our circadian biology, and the insatiable early-morning demands of a post-industrial way of life, denies us the sleep we vitally need. — Matthew Walker Biology Copy Share Image
Alcohol is a class of drugs that we call 'the sedatives.' And what you're doing is just knocking your brain out. You're… — Matthew Walker Alcohol 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 Cancer 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… — Matthew Walker Deprivation 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 Night Copy Share Image
Midnight is the time when we think, 'Well, we should probably send our last email; let me just check Facebook one more… — Matthew Walker Email Copy Share Image
Sleep-deprived individuals also generate fewer and less accurate solutions to problems. — Matthew Walker Accurate 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 Dreaming 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
“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 Blood sugar 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
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
