24 Matthew Walker Quotes for You to Enjoy

Matthew Walker

English Scientist

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No one wants to give up time with their family or entertainment, so they give up sleep instead. Matthew Walker

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When I give lectures, people will wait behind until there is no one around and then tell me quietly, 'I seem to be one of those people who need eight or nine hours' sleep.' It's embarrassing to say it in public. Matthew Walker

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Below seven hours of sleep, there are objective impairments in the body. Eight hours are recommended. Matthew Walker

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As you try to tweak your sleep one way or the other, you might be, you might be doing great - you might do better at remembering details of an event, but you might end up being poorer at abstracting the gist or the rules associated with it. Matthew Walker

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

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It's simply that older adults don't seem to be able to generate sleep efficiently, and that's why they're not getting it. Matthew Walker

Older Able Seem Adult Generate Simply Efficiently Getting Why Sleep

It's during dream sleep where we start to actually take the sting out of difficult, even traumatic, emotional experiences that we've been having. And sleep almost divorces that emotional, bitter rind from the memory experiences that we've had during the day. Matthew Walker

I think the first general point to make from epidemiological studies across millions of people is the following - that short sleep predicts a shorter life. It predicts all cause mortality. Matthew Walker

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I have long been puzzled by the entrenched mentality, and often enforced practice, of longer work hours and less sleep. Innumerable policies exist within the workplace regarding smoking, substance abuse, ethical behaviour, and injury and disease prevention. Matthew Walker

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I just tell people I'm a dolphin trainer. It's better for everyone. Matthew Walker

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We have stigmatised sleep with the label of laziness. Matthew Walker

Laziness Label Sleep

Sleep is Mother Nature's best effort yet to counter death. Matthew Walker

Death Best Nature Mother Counter Effort Sleep

I think sleep is probably the neglected stepsister in the health conversation today. I think we've done a good job regarding physical activity and diet, but sleep has remained out there in the cold, and that's surprising to me. Matthew Walker

You're trying to sleep off a debt that you've lumbered your brain and body with during the week, and wouldn't it be lovely if sleep worked like that? Sadly, it doesn't. Sleep is not like the bank, so you can't accumulate a debt and then try and pay it off at a later point in time. Matthew Walker

Do you tend to sleep in during the weekends? That usually signals that you're trying to sleep off a debt you've accumulated during the week. Matthew Walker

You Signals Tend Week Weekends Off Debt Accumulate Trying Sleep

The gross demonstration of caffeine is that it prevents you from falling asleep. The slightly more nefarious aspect of caffeine is that maybe you can fall asleep, but we know that the depth of deep sleep you're getting if caffeine is still in your system is severely less. Matthew Walker

Light is a profound degrader of our sleep. Matthew Walker

Light Our Profound Sleep

The amount of sleep - the total amount of sleep that you get - starts to decrease the older that we get. I think one of the myths out there is that we simply need less sleep as we age, and that's not true, in fact. Matthew Walker

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We know that efficiency and effectiveness are increased when you're getting sufficient sleep, and it will take you longer to do the same thing on an underslept brain, which means you end up having to stay awake longer. So goes the vicious cycle. Matthew Walker

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