The Sleep Revolution
“The longest and most intense REM periods are the ones that occur toward the seven- or eight-hour mark of the sleep cycle. So if you’re curtailing your sleep down to five or six hours, chances are good that you’re not getting those long, intense REM periods.” As he said this, I wondered: What does it mean to be a society and culture so frantic that
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In a society dominated by the values of consumer capitalism, “sleep is a big problem,” he told me. “If you’re asleep, you’re not spending money, so you’re not consuming anything. You’re not producing any products.”
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The first is that sleep is more important than food.
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Matthew Walker’s book, Why We Sleep.
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The 8-Hour Sleep Paradox: How We Are Sleeping Our Way to Fatigue, Disease and Unhappiness
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