Creativity is, after all, lauded as the engine of business innovation. — Matthew Walker Business Copy Share Image
“The best bridge between despair and hope is a good night’s sleep.” — Matthew Walker Despair Copy Share Image
“After all, absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.” — Matthew Walker Absence Copy Share Image
I give myself a non-negotiable eight-hour sleep opportunity every night. — Matthew Walker Every night 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
I just tell people I'm a dolphin trainer. It's better for everyone. — Matthew Walker Copy Share Image
By keeping patients awake for longer, we build up a strong sleep pressure. — Matthew Walker Copy Share Image
“The best bridge between despair and hope is a good night’s sleep.”VII” — Matthew Walker Good night 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
Below seven hours of sleep, there are objective impairments in the body. Eight hours are recommended. — Matthew Walker Body 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 Copy Share Image
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
Sleep-deprived individuals also generate fewer and less accurate solutions to problems. — 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 Dreaming 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 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
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
“Sleep is the single most effective thing we can do to reset our brain and body health each day -- Mother Nature's… — Matthew Walker Biology 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
