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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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##昨天讀瞭之後 得到瞭久違的9小時睡眠... demystify瞭很多問題 比如REM做夢其實是很有用的 像是一種overnight therapy 幫你去重組處理日間的不良情緒；比如喝酒根本無法讓你“睡得更好” 隻是讓你進入瞭一種麻醉狀態而已；比如褪黑素隻能幫助你提前召喚來睡覺的時間 具體質量是幫不瞭的；比如咖啡真的是一種被我們abuse的興奮劑；比如真的有晨型人和夜型人。我們都會因為各種原因遇到一些sleeping difficulties 但不代錶我們有insomnia 減少睡前藍光的接受 帶著好心態 好好睡覺吧
評分##作為一個以研究睡眠為生的人，我最開始覺得，寫睡眠的科普書對我還有什麼新意？故而雖然早在一年前就聽過作者的新鮮空氣訪談，還是沒有找來看。但真正聽完瞭全書，卻意外地發現自己學到很多新東西，也許是因為背景知識儲備比較充分，所以新東西容易吸收，但同時確實也是因為作者寫得清楚有條理，而且在很多地方，尤其是睡眠在進化中的作用、以及睡眠的神經機製方麵有很多獨到見解。總之非常推薦。
評分##https://peterattiamd.com/matthewwalker1/ 作者聊瞭總共三期的Podcast
評分##二十一世紀夢的解析，再見弗洛伊德式idiosyncrasy
評分##給自己愛睡覺找到瞭理由，發現確實如此
評分##A must-read for everyone! Can’t stress enough how important an 8-hour sleep is!
評分總之，鼓吹每天睡三小時看四點鍾的洛杉磯，是現代人類最愚蠢的觀念之一。普通的說，這本書講的很多新研究結論很有意思，比如晚上喝酒、吃褪黑素對睡眠其實危害巨大。但是我更看重作者的私貨：“既然演化讓幾乎所有動物都具有睡眠這種近乎自殺性的行為，那麼一定有什麼重要得要命的理由。”作者對這個理由的猜測是我見過的最接近準確的答案：nREM睡眠是騰空臨時記憶空間，而REM睡眠是將這些存儲轉移到永久存儲中；而夢的作用是讓人對一段記憶安全地去除感情。
評分##關於睡眠這件事情非常全麵的科普和解析。我覺得印象最深刻的是，作者得齣一個推論，既然我們現代社會的人類，幾乎睡眠不足在城市人口中是常態，那麼也就意味著我們很多人其實一直是在一個sub-optimal的狀態下生活瞭很久，而自己接受瞭自己更低的performance standard，並且還不自知，認為這是正常的。這是一個非常讓人concerning的發現。
評分##關於睡眠這件事情非常全麵的科普和解析。我覺得印象最深刻的是，作者得齣一個推論，既然我們現代社會的人類，幾乎睡眠不足在城市人口中是常態，那麼也就意味著我們很多人其實一直是在一個sub-optimal的狀態下生活瞭很久，而自己接受瞭自己更低的performance standard，並且還不自知，認為這是正常的。這是一個非常讓人concerning的發現。
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