Matthew Walker Quotes

If we didn't need eight hours of sleep and could survive on six, Mother Nature would have done away with 25 percent of our sleep time millions of years ago. Because when you think about it, sleep is an idiotic thing to do.

I have no trouble with my sleep, but the amount I have varies from four to eight hours, depending on my schedule.

Normally I sleep for 9, 10 hours a night.

I'm a very good sleeper.

It's unfortunate biologically we have to sleep.

I sleep seven hours. If I go to bed at two, I wake up at nine. If I go to bed at midnight, I wake up at seven. I don't wake up before - the house can fall apart, but I sleep for seven hours.

It's really fascinating stuff, the science of sleep. We don't think of it in terms of that, but it really is.

Some people seem to survive on very little sleep but I am definitely not one of them.

Sleep is the Swiss army knife of health. When sleep is deficient, there is sickness and disease. And when sleep is abundant, there is vitality and health.

Light is a profound degrader of our sleep.

Much sleep is not required by nature, either for our souls or bodies, or for the action in which they are concerned.

One hour's sleep before midnight is worth three after.

The most important thing to do for me physiologically is to sleep when I'm tired. I love to sleep and it's very restorative.

I'm a shockingly bad sleeper. In bed very late. Awake at the crack of dawn.

It might be asked, 'How much time shall I allow myself for rest?' The answer is that no rule of universal application can be given, as all persons do not require the same measure of sleep, and also the same persons, at different times, according to the strength or weakness of their body, may require more or less.

I'm someone who needs more sleep than average, and I'm quite jealous of people who need only five or six hours and they're good to go.

Before the advent of artificial light, we had 13, 14 hours in bed every night... and so what we experience now is about a 40% contraction of how we used to sleep, and I for one am glad of that - I don't want to spend 13 hours in bed.

I think sleep's really important. I value it as much as waking up and having a full day.

The more sleep you get in before the clock turns midnight, the more rested you feel no matter what time your alarm goes off.

I tend to sleep a lot.

Where you're not allowed to be woken up by any outside sources, you wake up naturally.

It's strange, when you think about it, that we spend close to a third of our lives asleep. Why do we do it? While we're sleeping, we're vulnerable - and, at least on the outside, supremely unproductive.

I usually fall asleep between 11 P.M. - 1 A.M., and I wake up between 6:30 A.M. - 8:00 A.M.

I don't sleep as much as normal people do.

I try to get eight or nine hours of sleep a night, and if I don't, I'll make sure to take a nap.