After hearing the author on the Joe Rogan podcast I excitedly bought the book...and then regretted it. The author went on a nauseating rant by telling us that sleep is important in 312 different ways...and yet didn't really offer any solid advice to help us get more sleep. In other words he stated the obvious, but didn't offer anything concrete or practical. I have no doubt he is an amazing sleep expert, but we all know that sleep is good for you. The challenge is figuring out how to get more of it or better quality.
I'll save you the money by summarizing the book:
"Sleep is really, really, really, really, really important. If you don't get enough sleep, you could have many problems because sleep is really, really, really important. I'm not going to tell you how to get better or more sleep, I will only tell you that sleep is really important."
Personally, I think he's holding out on this information for his next book. Grrrrrrrr.
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A must-read for those in medicine, psychology and ministry
Reviewed in the United States on September 30, 2018
This is one of the most impactful books I’ve read recently. The subtitle obscures the true depth of the book. This isn’t a self-help book about sleeping better and attaining some benefits. Dr. Walker instead goes through the various maladies connected to sleep deprivation, backed by scores of scientific studies.Dr. Walker talks about non-medicinal routes to sleeping better; you’ve probably heard that advice before (avoid: caffeine, alcohol, blue LED light; do darken and cool the room, etc.). What’s different is that he lays out the detriments of sleep deprivation in a way that compels you to make changes. [as an aside: he lays out the reasons pills do not actually help one to sleep; they, instead, sedate a person, giving the impression of sleep without the critical attendant benefits]He lays out the connections of sleep deprivation to a whole range of diseases. For example: Alzheimer’s; it includes a build-up of beta-amyloids in the frontal lobe, which disrupt NREM sleep, which in turn makes overnight memory consolidation suffer. He offers insights like this for a variety of medical conditions.As an Army Chaplain, I read with interest the correlation between poor sleep and PTSD. In particular, he discussed decreased REM sleep. REM sleep is when our bodies are noradrenaline free and allows us to process traumatic events without the anxiety attached. Failure to process events in this noradrenaline free environment prevents us from moving beyond the event in a healthy manner [note: this is my layperson interpretation of how he describes the process].This book is a must read for anyone involved in medicine, education and ministry. As I start my dissertation next year on building resilience in individuals and organizations, this book will be a central resource for me.
Reviewed in the United States on September 30, 2018
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Reviewed in India on August 7, 2019
For normal folks like you and me, and for doctors or scientists as well, sleep's been always a mysterious phenomena. We humans sleep (preferably) one third of our whole life. This is an enormous amount of time which demands some attention. Though historically the attention has not been allotted to sleep it deserves, academically or culturally.
If you read this book (and you should; whether you love or hate or enjoy or avoid or have problem with or have some queries on sleeping) you'd understand why the evolutionary process didn't eliminate sleep from our biological dictionary. Why, though seemingly unnecessary/time-wasting/futile/unproductive, we still need to get a good night's sleep to get a long list of physiological, biological, psychological benefits. And if you by any chance fail to get the necessary amount of sleep (voluntarily or otherwise), you're a big gambler who doesn't have the idea about the grave repercussions. (No kidding.)
This book will be beneficial to everybody except those smart dudes who have unwavering faith in some generic and prejudiced sayings like: "Six hours of sleep is enough for a functional adult" or "You'll have chance to sleep all you need when you're dead" or "Our great leader sleeps only four hours/day, hence I should do the same to be like him." etc.
Don't trust them for Kumbhkarna's sake. Don't mess with sleep.
Some curious takeaways from the book:
● Not only the starting phase of sleep is important, when you're going to wake up in the morning is equally significant too. If you get up earlier without fulfilling your sleep-quota, there will be consequences. Serious consequences.
● Melatonin doesn't make you feel drowsy; it just reminds your brain, "Time to go to bed, fella." Part of a whole set of timekeeping mechanism actually. The chemical substance which in fact pressurize your system to make you feel sleepy is named Adenosine.
● Dreaming makes you more visionary/creative/shrewd, really. And dreaming is not just some "commercial breaks" between slumber, it has serious impact on your mindset/thinking/worldview/self assessment and many things more.
● Homo sapiens is "biphasic" in case of sleep requirement. That is, we humans are biologically inclined to get sleep two times a day. Taking a siesta is not just a cultural phenomena in origin, but deeply biological. Dozing after lunchtime is absolutely human-like, nothing shameful if you think so.
● It's not mere practice that makes a person perfect. Practice, followed by a good night of sleep is what required for perfection. And the writer is serious about that.
● You can sleep as many hours trying to recover/make up the sleep that you've lost or skipped; but make no mistake, humans can never "sleep back"/rebound the sleep once lost.
● "Night owls" are real, not myth. As real as the "Morning larks" are. Don't bully them; or feel guilty of being one.
● Caffeine is the most widely used (rather abused) addictive psychoactive stimulant drug in the world. It is also the only addictive substance that we readily give to our children and teens.
● And a lot more.
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