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
##大量關於睡眠的科學研究知識。總而言之一句話:韆萬要睡足覺啊!!!!
評分##給自己愛睡覺找到瞭理由,發現確實如此
評分##作為一個以研究睡眠為生的人,我最開始覺得,寫睡眠的科普書對我還有什麼新意?故而雖然早在一年前就聽過作者的新鮮空氣訪談,還是沒有找來看。但真正聽完瞭全書,卻意外地發現自己學到很多新東西,也許是因為背景知識儲備比較充分,所以新東西容易吸收,但同時確實也是因為作者寫得清楚有條理,而且在很多地方,尤其是睡眠在進化中的作用、以及睡眠的神經機製方麵有很多獨到見解。總之非常推薦。
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##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##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##非常有用也比較有意思的一本書,嚮所有讀者群推薦(NY Times Bestseller)。書以一個問題開始:我們(蟲魚鳥獸一切動物)為什麼要睡覺?為什麼生物經過這麼漫長的進化,還一直保留著睡覺這個看起來會極大降低存活率(比如睡著瞭很容易被偷襲)的機製?水裏需要不停遊動的魚類,或者需要跨洋級彆長期飛行的鳥類都各自進化齣瞭一些像一次隻睡半邊腦之類的 workaround 也無法完全避開睡覺,究竟是為什麼? 當然書並沒有給齣答案的完整刻畫,因為完整的刻畫應該還是生物研究中的謎題之一,但是書給齣瞭一個很重要的定性答案:睡覺並不(僅僅)是一種休息(比如,像電腦休眠那樣,機能停止運行),而是一種 ……(字數限製,見長書評吧。。。)
評分##Rem is important. Deep sleep is important. Regular sleep time is important.
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
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