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Midnight is the time when we think, 'Well, we should probably send our last email; let me just check Facebook one more time.'

~Matthew Walker

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Your subjective sense of how well you're doing under conditions of sleep deprivation is a miserable predictor of, objectively, how you actually are doing.

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That short-sleeping that we're now suffering is a consequence of our lifestyle. It's not a consequence of evolutionary habituation.

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Sleep is Mother Nature's best effort yet to counter death.

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Some people actually sleep better when the significant other is with them. For other couples, it's the opposite.

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Creativity is, after all, lauded as the engine of business innovation.

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Stay away from screens, especially those LED screens. Those blue-light emitting devices fool your brain into thinking that it's still daytime, even though it's night-time and you want to get to sleep.

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The amount of sleep - the total amount of sleep that you get - starts to decrease the older that we get. I think one of the myths out there is that we simply need less sleep as we age, and that's not true, in fact.

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It's not that we simply get old, and memory starts to go, and sleep starts to deteriorate. But those two things actually are significantly interrelated.

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Regularity is a key: going to bed at the same time, waking up at the same time no matter what. But I think, also, it's not just about quantity - that's what we've been discovering. It's also about quality.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Scientist

Born: Unknown

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