Why We Sleep
Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
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Walker opens with a declaration that doubles as a provocation: sleep is the single most effective thing you can do for your health. From there, Why We Sleep builds its case with the urgency of a manifesto and the density of a textbook. The science is genuinely staggering — REM cycles, memory consolidation, the catastrophic cost of deprivation — and Walker marshals it with real passion. The prose occasionally tips into alarmism, and some findings have faced scrutiny since publication. But as a wake-up call, it lands hard. Best suited to the chronically under-rested and the intellectually curious alike.
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There's a particular dread that settles in around chapter three of this book, when Walker starts laying out just how catastrophically we've been underestimating sleep — and I felt it personally, the way you feel called out by something you've been ignoring for years. The prose is urgent without being alarmist, almost like a doctor who genuinely likes you but needs you to understand the severity of what's at stake. It left me rearranging my evenings, which is perhaps the highest praise I can give a work of popular science.
Book Details
- Publisher
- Audible Studios
- Published
- January 1, 2017
- Pages
- 360
- Language
- English
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