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Offers a look at sleep and dreaming that incorporates the important discoveries of the last two decades regarding their purpose, addressing their importance in such functions as learning, logical thinking, emotional regulation, and metabolism. / / A first book by the director of UC Berkeley's Sleep and Neuroimaging Lab outlines a groundbreaking exploration of sleep that explains how to harness its transformative power to improve overall health and life quality, covering subjects ranging from caffeine and REM sleep to sleep patterns and the role of sleep in illness. / / A New York Times bestseller / / / / 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. / / /

 

AUS DEM INHALT: / / Table of Contents

Part I This Thing Called Sleep

 

Chapter 1 To Sleep.

3 (10)

Chapter 2 Caffeine, Jet Lag, and Melatonin: Losing and Gaining Control of Your Sleep Rhythm

13 (25)

Chapter 3 Defining and Generating Sleep: Time Dilation and What We Learned from a Baby in 1952

38 (18)

Chapter 4 Ape Beds, Dinosaurs, and Napping with Half a Brain: Who Sleeps, How Do We Sleep, and How Much?

56 (22)

Chapter 5 Changes in Sleep Across the Life Span

78 (29)

Part 2 Why Should You Sleep?

 

Chapter 6 Your Mother and Shakespeare Knew: The Benefits of Sleep for the Brain

107 (26)

Chapter 7 Too Extreme for the Guinness Book of World Records: Sleep Deprivation and the Brain

133 (31)

Chapter 8 Cancer, Heart Attacks, and a Shorter Life: Sleep Deprivation and the Body

164 (29)

Part 3 How and Why We Dream

 

Chapter 9 Routinely Psychotic: REM-Sleep Dreaming

193 (13)

Chapter 10 Dreaming as Overnight Therapy

206 (13)

Chapter 11 Dream Creativity and Dream Control

219 (18)

Part 4 From Sleeping Pills to Society Transformed

 

Chapter 12 Things That Go Bump in the Night: Sleep Disorders and Death Caused by No Sleep

237 (28)

Chapter 13 iPads, Factory Whistles, and Nightcaps: What's Stopping You from Sleeping?

265 (17)

Chapter 14 Hurting and Helping Your Sleep: Pills vs. Therapy

282 (14)

Chapter 15 Sleep and Society: What Medicine and Education Are Doing Wrong; What Google and NASA Are Doing Right

296 (28)

Chapter 16 A New Vision for Sleep in the Twenty-First Century

324 (16)

Conclusion: To Sleep or Not to Sleep 340 (1)

Appendix: Twelve Tips for Healthy Sleep 341 (2)

Illustration Permissions 343 (1)

Acknowledgments

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