Never thought I'd be reading and enjoying a book about sleeping. Insightful, and oddly entertaining. And yes, I do get the irony of reading a book about sleep after going through some books on coffee 🤷🏽♂️
A 5-star rating on my GoodReads.
Here are my highlights:
- (On different types of body cycles) If I were to keep you awake all night, your core temperature would still show the same pattern.
(pg.19) - (...) melatonin helps regulate the timing of when sleep occurs by systematically signaling darkness throughout the organism. But melatonin has little influence on the generation of sleep itself.
(pg.22) - For every day you are in a different time zone your suprachiasmatic nucleus can only readjust by about one hour.
(pg.24) - The longer you are awake, the more adenosine will accumulate.
(pg.26) - You can artificially mute sleep signal of adenosine by using a chemical that makes you fee more awake: caffeine.
(pg.26) - Individuals who are deliberately fasting will sleep less as the brain is tricked into thinking that food has suddenly become scarce.
(pg.66) - (...) migrating birds will grab brief periods of seep lasting only seconds in duration.
(pg.66) - (...) NREM sleep helps transfer and make safe newly learned information into long-term storage sites on the brain.
(pg.74) - REM sleep can (help define what) a collection of information mean as a whole, not just as facts. We can awake the next morning with new solutions to previously intractable problems or even be infused with radically new and original ideas.
(pg.75) - Sleep is not the absence of wakefulness.
(pg.108) - (...) the more sleep spindles an individual has at night, the greater the restoration of overnight learning ability come the next day.
(pg.111) - The second benefit of sleep for memory comes after learning (...), consolidation.
(pg.112) - (...) emotional regions of the brain are up to 30% more active in REM sleep compared to when we are awake.
(pg.193) - (...) REM sleep is the only time during the twenty-four hour period when your brain is completely devoid of this anxiety-triggering molecule (noradrenaline).
(pg.206) - (...) REM sleep dreaming accomplishes 2 critical goals: remember (...) and forget.
(pg.206) - (...) alcohool will often suppress REM sleep, specially during the first half of the night.
(pg.270) - (On alarm clocks) The snooze feature means that you will repeatedly impose a cardiovascular spike again and again within a short span of time.
(pg.278)
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