具體描述
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
用戶評價
##2020 #4 || 一本顛覆認知的乾貨書（恰好閱讀於身體欠佳時期）；對我最大的影響就是不再熬夜並且關心自己的睡眠狀況；適當午休；完全戒酒（睡前酒）；戒掉瞭下午時段咖啡因的攝入；如同作者所言，睡眠是人生最關鍵最重要的環節，卻很容易在現代社會被大眾忽視。
評分##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##反正就是要多睡覺。
評分##二十一世紀夢的解析，再見弗洛伊德式idiosyncrasy
評分##二十一世紀夢的解析，再見弗洛伊德式idiosyncrasy
評分##六顆星！整本書把所有和“睡覺”有關的科學知識非常想盡的寫下來，重點是還寫得極其有趣。發現好多設計實驗的內容和過程也都特彆好玩，包括曆史上最早研究人類睡眠周期的科學傢把自己關在“暗無天日的”山洞裏的故事，等等。唯一的小bug是作者為瞭強調充足睡眠的重要性，舉例說切爾諾貝利事件可能是sleep deprivation造成的，有點失偏頗啦。（當然，按照朋友調侃的話說，你懂這麼多，依然也睡不好覺呀，這本書並不能真的幫你解決很多失眠問題，但是依然是本很棒的書呀）
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##六顆星！整本書把所有和“睡覺”有關的科學知識非常想盡的寫下來，重點是還寫得極其有趣。發現好多設計實驗的內容和過程也都特彆好玩，包括曆史上最早研究人類睡眠周期的科學傢把自己關在“暗無天日的”山洞裏的故事，等等。唯一的小bug是作者為瞭強調充足睡眠的重要性，舉例說切爾諾貝利事件可能是sleep deprivation造成的，有點失偏頗啦。（當然，按照朋友調侃的話說，你懂這麼多，依然也睡不好覺呀，這本書並不能真的幫你解決很多失眠問題，但是依然是本很棒的書呀）
相關圖書
本站所有內容均為互聯網搜尋引擎提供的公開搜索信息，本站不存儲任何數據與內容，任何內容與數據均與本站無關，如有需要請聯繫相關搜索引擎包括但不限於百度，google,bing,sogou 等
© 2026 book.cndgn.com All Rights Reserved. 新城书站 版權所有