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Matthew Walker is Professor of Neuroscience and Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, and Founder and Director of the Center for Human Sleep Science. Check out his book "Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams" on Amazon.
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Sleeping in Foreign Environments
- One half of your brain wont sleep as deeply as the other, when sleeping in a foreign environment, like a hotel room
- There are two types of sleep
- REM Sleep
- Non-REM Sleep (of which there are 4 stages, stages )
- In stages 3 and 4, thats where a lot of body replenishment takes place
- These are the stages of sleep that one half of your brain will resist going into when youre sleeping in a foreign environment
- In stages 3 and 4, thats where a lot of body replenishment takes place
sleep and drugs
- Joe has noticed after he stopped smoking cannabis for a short period of time, he had very vivid dreams
- Cannabis is very good at blocking REM (dream sleep) alcohol also blocks REM sleep.
- The brain is very clever, and builds up a clock count of how much dream sleep you should of had, but have not been getting
- The brain develops such an appetite for dream sleep, that youll get a REM sleep rebound effect if you stop smoking for a period of time
- This is where you have really intense dreams
- Marijuana certainl
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Matthew Walker
In this special programme for Radio 3’s Twilight Season, Michael Berkeley’s guest is the sleep scientist Professor Matthew Walker.
So many of us have trouble sleeping, and are longing to find the secret of a good night’s rest, that when Matthew Walker goes to parties he is more likely to tell people he is a dolphin trainer than the world’s leading expert on sleep science. Otherwise, he says, ‘for me the evening is over’.
Matthew began his career in Britain, training as a doctor, but he is now Professor of Neuroscience and Psychology at the University of Berkeley, California and the founder and director of the Centre for Sleep Science. He is the author of more than scientific papers and his best-selling book Why We Sleep has been translated into over 40 languages.
Matthew tells Michael about the ‘global sleep crisis’, the sleep deficit that is costing individuals their health and economies billions. He explains why it is so important to get at least seven hours of sleep a night and the dangers to our physical and mental health if we regularly get even an hour less than that. And he describes the joys of sleeping and dreaming, and the magic they work on our creativity, memory and wellbeing.
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