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
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
“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
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
Below seven hours of sleep, there are objective impairments in the body. Eight hours are recommended. — Matthew Walker Body 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
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
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
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
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
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 Falling Copy Share Image
By keeping patients awake for longer, we build up a strong sleep pressure. — Matthew Walker Build 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
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
“we estimate that more than 50 percent of all children with an ADHD diagnosis actually have a sleep disorder, yet a small… — Matthew Walker Children 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 Hope 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
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
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
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
“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
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
