Why We Sleep Quotes

“An added reason for making sleep a top priority in the education and lives of our children concerns the link between sleep deficiency and the epidemic of ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder). Children with this diagnosis are irritable, moodier, more distractible and unfocused in learning during the day, and have a significantly increased prevalence of depression and suicidal ideation.”
― Matthew Walker, Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams

“Deep currents of sleep neglect circulate throughout all developed nations, and it is for these reasons that the World Health Organization now labels the lack of societal sleep as a global health epidemic.”
― Matthew Walker, Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams

“No matter what immunological circumstance you find yourself in—be it preparation for receiving a vaccine to help boost immunity, or mobilizing a mighty adaptive immune response to defeat a viral attack—sleep, and a full night of it, is inviolable.”
― Matthew Walker, Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams

“Last night, you became flagrantly psychotic. It will happen again tonight. Before you reject this diagnosis, allow me to offer five justifying reasons. First, when you were dreaming last night, you started to see things that were not there—you were hallucinating. Second, you believed things that could not possibly be true—you were delusional. Third, you became confused about time, place, and person—you were disoriented. Fourth, you had extreme swings in your emotions—something psychiatrists call being affectively labile. Fifth (and how delightful!), you woke up this morning and forgot most, if not all, of this bizarre dream experience—you were suffering from amnesia. If you were to experience any of these symptoms while awake, you’d be seeking immediate psychological treatment.”
― Matthew Walker, Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams

“Since life’s experience is ever changing, demanding that our memory catalog be updated ad infinitum, our autobiographical sculpture of stored experience is never complete”
― Matthew Walker, Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams

“evolutionarily linked to the twenty-four-hour ebb”
― Matthew Walker, Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams

“Greater ill health caused by a lack of sleep therefore befalls owls, including higher rates of depression, anxiety, diabetes, cancer, heart attack, and stroke.”
― Matthew Walker, Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams

“Perhaps it was not time that heals all wounds, but rather time spent in dream sleep.”
― Matthew Walker, Why We Sleep: The New Science of Sleep and Dreams

“Between 35 and 55 percent of emotional themes and concerns that participants were having while they were awake during the day powerfully and unambiguously resurfaced in the dreams they were having at night.”
― Matthew Walker, Why We Sleep: The New Science of Sleep and Dreams

“With a genuine lack of malice, I proceed to inform them that men who report sleeping too little—or having poor-quality sleep—have a 29 percent lower sperm count than those obtaining a full and restful night of sleep, and the sperm themselves have more deformities.”
― Matthew Walker, Why We Sleep: The New Science of Sleep and Dreams

“Det politiskt inkorrekta råd som jag (självklart aldrig) skulle ge är detta: Gå ut på krogen och drick på morgonen istället. Då kommer alkoholen att ha rensats ut ur systemet tills det är dags att sova.”
― Matthew Walker, Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams

“Like viewing an image through frosted glass, or looking at an out-of-focus picture, a dream-starved brain cannot accurately decode facial expressions, which become distorted. You begin to mistake friends for foes.”
― Matthew Walker, Why We Sleep: The New Science of Sleep and Dreams

“REM sleep can therefore be considered as a state characterized by strong activation in visual, motor, emotional, and autobiographical memory regions of the brain, yet a relative deactivation in regions that control rational thought.”
― Matthew Walker, Why We Sleep: The New Science of Sleep and Dreams

“When your sleep becomes short, you will gain weight.”
― Matthew Walker, Why We Sleep: The New Science of Sleep and Dreams

“Adults forty-five years or older who sleep fewer than six hours a night are 200 percent more likely to have a heart attack or stroke during their lifetime”
― Matthew Walker, Why We Sleep: The New Science of Sleep and Dreams

“Widening the lens of focus, there are more than twenty large-scale epidemiological studies that have tracked millions of people over many decades, all of which report the same clear relationship: the shorter your sleep, the shorter your life. The leading causes of disease and death in developed nations—diseases that are crippling health-care systems, such as heart disease, obesity, dementia, diabetes, and cancer—all have recognized causal links to a lack of sleep.”
― Matthew Walker, Why We Sleep: The New Science of Sleep and Dreams

“From this cascade comes a prediction: getting too little sleep across the adult life span will significantly raise your risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease.”
― Matthew Walker, Why We Sleep: The New Science of Sleep and Dreams

“I was once fond of saying, “Sleep is the third pillar of good health, alongside diet and exercise.” I have changed my tune. Sleep is more than a pillar; it is the foundation on which the other two health bastions sit.”
― Matthew Walker, Why We Sleep: The New Science of Sleep and Dreams

“Om du sover för lite under ditt vuxna liv leder det till en avsevärt förhöjd risk för att utveckla Alzheimers sjukdom. ... Parentetiskt (och helt ovetenskapligt) vill jag gärna tillägga att jag alltid funnit det rätt talande att Margaret Thatcher och Roland Reagan - två betydande politiker som gjort stort väsen av sin förmåga att sova bara fyra, fem timmar per natt - båda utvecklade denna fruktansvärda sjukdom. Den sittande presidenten i USA, Donald Trump, har också varit en högljudd förespråkare för kort nattsömn och kan mycket väl behöva tänka på den saken.”
― Matthew Walker, Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams

“As a consequence, evening blue LED light has twice the harmful impact on nighttime melatonin suppression than the warm, yellow light from old incandescent bulbs, even when their lux intensities are matched.”
― Matthew Walker, Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams

“Övning ger alltså inte färdighet. Det är övning, åtföljd av sömn, som gör det.”
― Matthew Walker, Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams

“From a prescription written long ago in our ancestral genetic code, the practice of natural biphasic sleep, and a healthy diet, appear to be the keys to a long-sustained life.”
― Matthew Walker, Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams

“Men nattugglor är inte nattugglor av fri vilja. De är biologiskt dömda till sitt senarelagda schema, förprogrammerade av orubblig DNA. Det är inte deras avsikt; det är deras genetiska öde.”
― Matthew Walker, Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams

“getting four to six hours of sleep a night in the week before your flu shot means that you will produce less than half of the normal antibody response required,”
― Matthew Walker, Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams

“lack of sleep is a slow form of self-euthanasia,”
― Matthew Walker, Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams

“When sleep is abundant, minds flourish. When it is deficient, they don’t.”
― Matthew Walker, Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams

“REM sleep is what stands between rationality and insanity”
― Matthew Walker, Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams

“Individuals also like their jobs less when sleep-deprived—perhaps unsurprising considering the mood-depressing influence of sleep deficiency.”
― Matthew Walker, Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams

“The irony that employees miss is that when you are not getting enough sleep, you work less productively and thus need to work longer to accomplish a goal.”
― Matthew Walker, Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams

“Similar, if not larger, improvements in sleep time and efficiency are to be found in midlife and older adults, including those who are self-reported poor sleepers or those with clinically diagnosed insomnia.”
― Matthew Walker, Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams