We don't sleep enough. We must. Here's how.

This book contains pretty much everything about sleep: its amazing benefits, our lack of it, what happens when we don't have enough sleep and how to fix it. Some takeaways:
- Dreams and sleep stretch our imagination, boost our IQ, memory, sex drive, physical capabilities and overall health.
- Sleep deprivation gives you cancer, in addition to a bunch of other diseases.
- Give yourself 7-9 hrs of opportunity to sleep every night
- You can't make up over the weekend for the sleep you didn't have over the week
- Your bedroom should be 1-2 degrees colder when you're about to sleep. Taking a shower before bed also helps.
- Take a short nap in the early afternoon if you can, like a siesta.
- Stop getting caffeine at least 8 hours before bed

The narration was very slow and sleep-inducing. I don't know if this was on purpose but it was a bit boring at times.

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Un libro genial

Todos los deberíamos leer, entender y aplicar ... buenas noches, dulces sueños para todos y mucha salud !!

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I am so loving this book.

So grateful that this book exists. I am buying it in all the languages I know and in all shapes available. We all know what everyone is getting for Christmas

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A paradigm shift

A paradigm shift for me. This book makes me make sleep as a priority on my daily schedule. And the result is amazing. I am more productive and less grumpy.

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Awesome and very interesting information. Thanks !

Took a lot away from this book.
Information that should be taught to children from very early age on. explains by easy examples the different aspects of sleep deprivation as well as benefits of sound, good quality sleep.

i recommand it to everyone I know doesn't sleep 8h per night :)

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Why we sleep by Matthew Walker

What I liked:
Very comprehensive/ Very informative/ Disproves the myth that sleep is wasting time/ Explains the misconception of residency training in hospitals/ Well structured/ Clarity of expression/ Logical arguments supported by thorough scientific proof for both an academic and a lay person/ Manifold suggestions for applications: School curricula, business management, various insurances, students learning habits, various personal health problems/ Practical tips/ Well read by Steve West.
What I missed:
More information about infants
Summer time-winter time clock change (Europe)
Bibliography

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Amazingly informative, unfitting reader

The benefits of sleep and the dangers of sleep deprivation have never been clearer to me than whilst listening to this audio book. To me, the speaker sounds like he's reading an adventure book and his overexpression distracts from what is a book of popular science. I wish the author had done the reading himself.

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In-depth sleep analysis that fails to grasp

I bought this audio book specifically because I was very interested in the topic of sleep and because I wanted to find a way to help my friends and family get some better shuteye at night.

Listening to this taught me a lot about how sleep works, however, I found it difficult to listen to it in its entirety. In my opinion, it focuses on the topics at hand for too long and brings little variety with it. I would've also loved to hear about possible side effects of getting MORE than 8 hours of sleep, since there's a lot of people doing that too. What happens if you sleep 10+ hours a day? There isn't an answer to that in this book, as far as I've listened. To be fair, I skipped the last chapter because I just wasn't interested anymore at that point.

A chapter specifically about how to get high-quality sleep would've been great too, instead of sprinkling the information across all the chapters, making it difficult to remember all of the advice.

That being said, I think this book can provide some value for people who want a really in-depth analysis of the importance of sleep, but it doesn't really provide very many actionable and practical things to take with you into daily life.

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A must read if you want to live longer and prosper

Fascinating facts on the absolute importance of sleep for all living beings presented in an entertaining, informative and memorable way. That is, the latter most if all if you get enough sleep after each read. Ending with a 12 item list of advice and a vision for a (digitally enhanced) personalized sleep optimization that could change (nearly) all of our lives.

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That Narrator!!!

Why We Sleep is very well witten. It’s interesting and packed with information based on latest sleep research.
The reader/listener not only gets scientific information but also some practical tips on how to increase sleep quantity and quality.

The only drawback is the narrator’s voice! It’s truly sleep inducing. That’s a pity, as dozing off makes me miss interesting information. And scrolling back to find the point I started to miss out is not easy, given the monotonous voice.
The chapters are quite long, too. Maybe they could have been divided into shorter sub-chapters.

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