Author(s): Matthew Walker PhD
Publisher: Scribner
Year: 2017
Language: English
Pages: 277
Tags: sleep; sleep deprivation
Cover......Page 2
Dedication......Page 7
Part 1: This Thing Called Sleep......Page 8
Chapter 1: To Sleep . . .......Page 10
Chapter 2: Caffeine, Jet Lag, and Melatonin: Losing and Gaining Control of Your Sleep Rhythm......Page 17
Chapter 3: Defining and Generating Sleep: Time Dilation and What We Learned from a Baby in 1952......Page 36
Chapter 4: Ape Beds, Dinosaurs, and Napping with Half a Brain: Who Sleeps, How Do We Sleep, and How Much?......Page 49
Chapter 5: Changes in Sleep Across the Life Span......Page 64
Part 2: Why Should You Sleep?......Page 81
Chapter 6: Your Mother and Shakespeare Knew: The Benefits of Sleep for the Brain......Page 83
Chapter 7: Too Extreme for the Guinness Book of World Records: Sleep Deprivation and the Brain......Page 101
Chapter 8: Cancer, Heart Attacks, and a Shorter Life: Sleep Deprivation and the Body......Page 122
Part 3: How and Why We Dream......Page 140
Chapter 9: Routinely Psychotic: REM-Sleep Dreaming......Page 142
Chapter 10: Dreaming as Overnight Therapy......Page 151
Chapter 11: Dream Creativity and Dream Control......Page 160
Part 4: From Sleeping Pills to Society Transformed......Page 172
Chapter 12: Things That Go Bump in the Night: Sleep Disorders and Death Caused by No Sleep......Page 174
Chapter 13: iPads, Factory Whistles, and Nightcaps: What’s Stopping You from Sleeping?......Page 193
Chapter 14: Hurting and Helping Your Sleep: Pills vs. Therapy......Page 205
Chapter 15: Sleep and Society: What Medicine and Education Are Doing Wrong; What Google and NASA Are Doing Right......Page 215
Chapter 16: A New Vision for Sleep in the Twenty-First Century......Page 234
Conclusion: To Sleep or Not to Sleep......Page 246
Acknowledgments......Page 247
About the Author......Page 248
Appendix: Twelve Tips for Healthy Sleep......Page 250
Illustration Permissions......Page 252
Index......Page 253
Copyright......Page 277
