Matthew Walker Quotes


You should not actually stay in bed for very long awake, because your brain is this remarkably associative device, and it quickly learns that the bed is about being awake. So you should go to another room - a room that's dim. Just read a book - no screens, no phones - and, only when you're sleepy, return to the bed.


Citations

Walker, Matthew. Interview by Terry Gross. "Sleep Scientist Warns Against Walking Through Life 'In An Underslept State'." Fresh Air, NPR, 20 July 2017.

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Matthew Paul Walker is an English scientist and professor of neuroscience and psychology at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a public intellectual focused on the subject of sleep.