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
##實話實說我感覺比較一般,話題是老生常談瞭,睡覺很重要,重要到睡不好會導緻種種疾病甚至死亡。也可能是我get不到當中的邏輯。前幾個月開始聽,一直很催眠,到今天終於決定聽完。也許催眠就達成瞭這本書的目的吧。睡前讀紙質書和電子書還是有差的,讀電子書會抑製身體釋放melatonin。不用錯覺自己insomnia,being sleep deprived is not insomnia。不過being sleep deprived也沒有比insomnia好到哪裏去。
評分##A must-read for everyone! Can’t stress enough how important an 8-hour sleep is!
評分##這是一本安利睡覺的書。十四個小時說瞭一句話:睡得好讓你精神好、心情好、學習好、顔值高、胖不瞭、創意足、掙錢多、省醫療、開車安全、少得癌晚癡呆、死不瞭。反過來就是說,不好好睡覺會讓你變胖、變醜、變學渣、差領導、開車危險、抑鬱跑不瞭、男的蛋蛋變小娘娘化生不瞭、早癡呆多得癌、老得快、死得早。
評分##睡眠不足的危害微信微博上到處可見。這本書簡單來說就是再次重申睡眠不足對於身體,情緒等各方麵的負麵影響。我覺得比較有意思的是,原來REM做夢的時候,身體應該是處於paralyzed的狀態的,大腦好神奇。還有sleep on it是有科學根據的。有的篇幅略冗餘。總結下來睡眠很重要,要重視,說起來比做起來容易,要真正做到不簡單。
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##Rem is important. Deep sleep is important. Regular sleep time is important.
評分##最主要是兩點收獲:1、科學的闡述瞭費洛伊德解析夢那套的誤導與錯誤,有從地方天圓到地圓天方的醍醐灌頂之感,原來做做夢是伴隨REM sleep對mental health有各種效果的生理特徵,失戀、離婚後的夢並不是簡單的日有所思,而是它在幫助我們消化情緒。2、睡眠跟飲食、鍛煉一樣,並非鐵闆一塊,而是各個階段的配閤,熬夜損失3小時的REM sleep並不是第二天多睡4小時能彌補的,是失去瞭70%的REM sleep時間,要跟飲食分蔬菜、蛋白、水果、碳水一樣認真對待睡眠。sleep deprivation比日常大傢防癌的那些細節更緻癌以及增加各種慢性病的風險,一直後悔高中沉默網遊耽擱學業讀完這本書第一次後悔耽擱瞭自己青春期的寶貴睡眠。從今往後,中午12點後不喝咖啡,晚上10後盡量不看LED。
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