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Why we sleep
(Matthew Walker, 2017)
Part 1. This thing called sleep
Chapter 1: To sleep
// Overview of sleep (two questions: enough sleep past week? last time woke up without an alarm/caffeine?
// The author's experience finding his passion (dementia to sleep)
// Overview of the chapter
// Endnote: okay to sleep when reading
Chapter 2: Losing and gaining control of your sleep
// circadian rhythm (melatonin)
// sleep pressure (caffeine)
Chapter 3: Defining and generating sleep
Chapter 4: Other animals
//take a nap at the midafternoon
Chapter 5: Changes in sleep across the life span
Part 2. Why should you sleep
Chapter 6. The benefits of sleep for your brain
// before learning, replenishment of learning ability, refreshment
// after learning, targeted memory reactivation
// forgetting is the price we pay for remembering
// practice, followed by a night of sleep, that lead to perfection
// sleep for creativity
Chapter 7.Sleep deprivation and the brain
// drowsy driving
// power nap
// extreme emotions
Chapter 8. Sleep deprivation and the body
Part 3. How and why we dream
Chapter 9. Routinely Psychotic
//dreams, MRI.
//dream reports and waking reports, emotional themes and concerns overlap
Chapter 10. Dreaming as overnight therapy
//biological overnight therapy theory
//by removing REM sleep, we had quite literaterally removed participants' level headed ability to read the social world around them.
Chapter 11. Dream creativity and dream control
REM sleep distant link\
Sleep on a problem
Memory performance
lucid dreaming
Part 4. From sleeping pills to society transormed
Chapter 12 Things that go bump in the night
National sleep foundation
sleep onset insomnia vs. sleep maintenance insomnia
Sleep medicine doctor
Chronic insomnia
Adaptive balance between wake and sleep
Chapter 13 What's stopping your from sleeping?
Reading on iPad/screens reduces melatonin
Alcohol and sleep affect learning outcomes, memories
Lower temperature for sleep temperatures for sleep
alarm, no snooze function
Chapter 14 Pills vs. therapy
drug tolerance and withdrawal process
sleeping pills, the bad, the bad, and the ugly
Chapter 15 Sleep and society
“Under-slept employees are not only less productive, less motivated, less creative, less happy, and lazier, but they are also more unethical.”
education, 9am work schedule
sleep deprivation & ADHD
doctor, misdiagnosis, lack of sleep
Chapter 16 A new vision for sleep