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
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
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
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
Below seven hours of sleep, there are objective impairments in the body. Eight hours are recommended. — Matthew Walker Body 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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
“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
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
“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 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
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
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
We know that efficiency and effectiveness are increased when you're getting sufficient sleep, and it will take you longer to do the… — Matthew Walker Brain 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
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
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
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 Diet Copy Share Image
As you try to tweak your sleep one way or the other, you might be, you might be doing great - you… — Matthew Walker Copy Share Image
I have long been puzzled by the entrenched mentality, and often enforced practice, of longer work hours and less sleep. Innumerable policies… — Matthew Walker Copy Share Image
When I give lectures, people will wait behind until there is no one around and then tell me quietly, 'I seem to… — Matthew Walker People 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… — Matthew Walker Body 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
