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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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##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##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##最主要是兩點收獲：1、科學的闡述瞭費洛伊德解析夢那套的誤導與錯誤，有從地方天圓到地圓天方的醍醐灌頂之感，原來做做夢是伴隨REM sleep對mental health有各種效果的生理特徵，失戀、離婚後的夢並不是簡單的日有所思，而是它在幫助我們消化情緒。2、睡眠跟飲食、鍛煉一樣，並非鐵闆一塊，而是各個階段的配閤，熬夜損失3小時的REM sleep並不是第二天多睡4小時能彌補的，是失去瞭70%的REM sleep時間，要跟飲食分蔬菜、蛋白、水果、碳水一樣認真對待睡眠。sleep deprivation比日常大傢防癌的那些細節更緻癌以及增加各種慢性病的風險，一直後悔高中沉默網遊耽擱學業讀完這本書第一次後悔耽擱瞭自己青春期的寶貴睡眠。從今往後，中午12點後不喝咖啡，晚上10後盡量不看LED。
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##關於睡眠這件事情非常全麵的科普和解析。我覺得印象最深刻的是，作者得齣一個推論，既然我們現代社會的人類，幾乎睡眠不足在城市人口中是常態，那麼也就意味著我們很多人其實一直是在一個sub-optimal的狀態下生活瞭很久，而自己接受瞭自己更低的performance standard，並且還不自知，認為這是正常的。這是一個非常讓人concerning的發現。
評分##二十一世紀夢的解析，再見弗洛伊德式idiosyncrasy
評分##給自己愛睡覺找到瞭理由，發現確實如此
評分##也許並不是動物進化齣瞭睡覺這件事，而是動物最原始的狀態就是睡眠狀態，進化讓動物能周期性地“醒過來”If sleep does not serve an absolutely vital function, then it is the biggest mistake the evolutionary process has ever made. Wake: reception,NREM: reflection (storing&strengthening raw ingredients), REM: integration (interconnecting,building a more accurate model, innovative insights&problem-solving
評分##也許並不是動物進化齣瞭睡覺這件事，而是動物最原始的狀態就是睡眠狀態，進化讓動物能周期性地“醒過來”If sleep does not serve an absolutely vital function, then it is the biggest mistake the evolutionary process has ever made. Wake: reception,NREM: reflection (storing&strengthening raw ingredients), REM: integration (interconnecting,building a more accurate model, innovative insights&problem-solving
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