Individuals fail to recognise how their perennial state of sleep deficiency has come to compromise their mental aptitude and physical vitality, including the slow accumulation of ill health. Matthew Walker Read Quote
Dream sleep provides a fascinating neurochemical soothing balm. It is during dream sleep and only during dream sleep when our brain shuts off a stress-related neurochemical called noradrenalin. Matthew Walker Read Quote
The fact that we don’t have that biologic pressure to have highly polyphasic sleep, I think, probably tells us something in terms of, truly, whether it’s useful or not. Matthew Walker Read Quote
Based on the science, you can make somewhat clear statements: The number of people who can survive on six hours of sleep without impairment is zero. Matthew Walker Read Quote