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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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##最主要是两点收获：1、科学的阐述了费洛伊德解析梦那套的误导与错误，有从地方天圆到地圆天方的醍醐灌顶之感，原来做做梦是伴随REM sleep对mental health有各种效果的生理特征，失恋、离婚后的梦并不是简单的日有所思，而是它在帮助我们消化情绪。2、睡眠跟饮食、锻炼一样，并非铁板一块，而是各个阶段的配合，熬夜损失3小时的REM sleep并不是第二天多睡4小时能弥补的，是失去了70%的REM sleep时间，要跟饮食分蔬菜、蛋白、水果、碳水一样认真对待睡眠。sleep deprivation比日常大家防癌的那些细节更致癌以及增加各种慢性病的风险，一直后悔高中沉默网游耽搁学业读完这本书第一次后悔耽搁了自己青春期的宝贵睡眠。从今往后，中午12点后不喝咖啡，晚上10后尽量不看LED。
评分##六颗星！整本书把所有和“睡觉”有关的科学知识非常想尽的写下来，重点是还写得极其有趣。发现好多设计实验的内容和过程也都特别好玩，包括历史上最早研究人类睡眠周期的科学家把自己关在“暗无天日的”山洞里的故事，等等。唯一的小bug是作者为了强调充足睡眠的重要性，举例说切尔诺贝利事件可能是sleep deprivation造成的，有点失偏颇啦。（当然，按照朋友调侃的话说，你懂这么多，依然也睡不好觉呀，这本书并不能真的帮你解决很多失眠问题，但是依然是本很棒的书呀）
评分##关于睡眠这件事情非常全面的科普和解析。我觉得印象最深刻的是，作者得出一个推论，既然我们现代社会的人类，几乎睡眠不足在城市人口中是常态，那么也就意味着我们很多人其实一直是在一个sub-optimal的状态下生活了很久，而自己接受了自己更低的performance standard，并且还不自知，认为这是正常的。这是一个非常让人concerning的发现。
评分##https://peterattiamd.com/matthewwalker1/ 作者聊了总共三期的Podcast
评分##给自己爱睡觉找到了理由，发现确实如此
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##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##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##二十一世纪梦的解析，再见弗洛伊德式idiosyncrasy
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