Matthew Walker Quotes

Insomnia is a very prevalent issue. It's a women's health issue, and I chose to talk about it because so many people have experienced it to varying degrees. For me, I'm doing great now, but it took a lot of work to figure out how to get back to sleep. I had to change some of my habits. I developed some pretty bad sleep ritual habits.

I like to sleep a lot. I mean I really like to sleep.

I don't sleep all that much, but when I do, it's sound.

If you have difficulty sleeping or are not getting enough sleep or sleep of good quality, you need to learn the basics of sleep hygiene, make appropriate changes, and possibly consult a sleep expert.

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

Some people might sleep eight hours and wake up exhausted because they're not getting good quality sleep.

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

Unfortunately, I suffer from insomnia, so my bedtime is as soon as I start to feel the least bit sleepy.

Some struggle with medical issues - like insomnia - that make sleep hard. But for many of us, the quantity and quality of sleep come down to a matter of choice. Still, only a few enterprising economists have looked closely at this, and generally, those have assumed that we choose our hours of sleep optimally.

I'm a very good sleeper.

I'm like a three-and-a-half, four-hour-a-night sleeper. It's not enough to function.

I am a terrible sleeper.

I tend to sleep a lot.

The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.

I've lived with insomnia for many years, but I'm making it a priority to address my sleep problems.

I've never had trouble sleeping in my life.

I sleep at night, but I don't sleep well.

I'm bad at sleeping. I get somewhere between three and six hours a night.

I think the most important healthy habit is to rest. Eight hours... every night.

People dramatically underestimate how much sleep is linked to all the diseases killing us. We know a lack of sleep is linked to numerous forms of cancer - bowel, prostate, breast cancer.

People have written about 'Sleep' as if it were some kind of record attempt, but I could just put repeat marks at the end, and it would be 16 hours. It's not about that.

Sometimes I don't sleep well.

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

I love sleeping, I can sleep for 15 hours a day.

I think many people walk through their lives in an under-slept state not realizing it. It's become this new natural baseline.