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The first sleep book by a leading scientific expert—Professor Matthew Walker, Director of UC Berkeley’s Sleep and Neuroimaging Lab—reveals his groundbreaking exploration of sleep, explaining how we can harness its transformative power to change our lives for the better.
Sleep is one of the most important but least understood aspects of our life, wellness, and longevity. Until very recently, science had no answer to the question of why we sleep, or what good it served, or why we suffer such devastating health consequences when we don't sleep. Compared to the other basic drives in life—eating, drinking, and reproducing—the purpose of sleep remained elusive.
An explosion of scientific discoveries in the last twenty years has shed new light on this fundamental aspect of our lives. Now, preeminent neuroscientist and sleep expert Matthew Walker gives us a new understanding of the vital importance of sleep and dreaming. Within the brain, sleep enriches our ability to learn, memorize, and make logical decisions. It recalibrates our emotions, restocks our immune system, fine-tunes our metabolism, and regulates our appetite. Dreaming mollifies painful memories and creates a virtual reality space in which the brain melds past and present knowledge to inspire creativity.
Walker answers important questions about sleep: how do caffeine and alcohol affect sleep? What really happens during REM sleep? Why do our sleep patterns change across a lifetime? How do common sleep aids affect us and can they do long-term damage? Charting cutting-edge scientific breakthroughs, and synthesizing decades of research and clinical practice, Walker explains how we can harness sleep to improve learning, mood, and energy levels; regulate hormones; prevent cancer, Alzheimer’s, and diabetes; slow the effects of aging; increase longevity; enhance the education and lifespan of our children, and boost the efficiency, success, and productivity of our businesses. Clear-eyed, fascinating, and accessible, Why We Sleep is a crucial and illuminating book
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##昨天读了之后 得到了久违的9小时睡眠... demystify了很多问题 比如REM做梦其实是很有用的 像是一种overnight therapy 帮你去重组处理日间的不良情绪；比如喝酒根本无法让你“睡得更好” 只是让你进入了一种麻醉状态而已；比如褪黑素只能帮助你提前召唤来睡觉的时间 具体质量是帮不了的；比如咖啡真的是一种被我们abuse的兴奋剂；比如真的有晨型人和夜型人。我们都会因为各种原因遇到一些sleeping difficulties 但不代表我们有insomnia 减少睡前蓝光的接受 带着好心态 好好睡觉吧
评分##https://peterattiamd.com/matthewwalker1/ 作者聊了总共三期的Podcast
评分##实话实说我感觉比较一般，话题是老生常谈了，睡觉很重要，重要到睡不好会导致种种疾病甚至死亡。也可能是我get不到当中的逻辑。前几个月开始听，一直很催眠，到今天终于决定听完。也许催眠就达成了这本书的目的吧。睡前读纸质书和电子书还是有差的，读电子书会抑制身体释放melatonin。不用错觉自己insomnia，being sleep deprived is not insomnia。不过being sleep deprived也没有比insomnia好到哪里去。
评分##给自己爱睡觉找到了理由，发现确实如此
评分##睡眠不足的危害微信微博上到处可见。这本书简单来说就是再次重申睡眠不足对于身体，情绪等各方面的负面影响。我觉得比较有意思的是，原来REM做梦的时候，身体应该是处于paralyzed的状态的，大脑好神奇。还有sleep on it是有科学根据的。有的篇幅略冗余。总结下来睡眠很重要，要重视，说起来比做起来容易，要真正做到不简单。
评分##二十一世纪梦的解析，再见弗洛伊德式idiosyncrasy
评分##这是一本安利睡觉的书。十四个小时说了一句话：睡得好让你精神好、心情好、学习好、颜值高、胖不了、创意足、挣钱多、省医疗、开车安全、少得癌晚痴呆、死不了。反过来就是说，不好好睡觉会让你变胖、变丑、变学渣、差领导、开车危险、抑郁跑不了、男的蛋蛋变小娘娘化生不了、早痴呆多得癌、老得快、死得早。
评分##作为一个以研究睡眠为生的人，我最开始觉得，写睡眠的科普书对我还有什么新意？故而虽然早在一年前就听过作者的新鲜空气访谈，还是没有找来看。但真正听完了全书，却意外地发现自己学到很多新东西，也许是因为背景知识储备比较充分，所以新东西容易吸收，但同时确实也是因为作者写得清楚有条理，而且在很多地方，尤其是睡眠在进化中的作用、以及睡眠的神经机制方面有很多独到见解。总之非常推荐。
评分##二十一世纪梦的解析，再见弗洛伊德式idiosyncrasy
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