Daniel Lang

“We now find our gods not on the altar, but in the bottle of alcohol, the football match on television, the new pair of shoes and the arms of the casual lover.”
― Bernardo Kastrup, More Than Allegory: On Religious Myth, Truth And Belief

“Caffeine has an average half-life of five to seven hours. Let’s say that you have a cup of coffee after your evening dinner, around 7:30 p.m. This means that by 1:30 a.m., 50 percent of that caffeine may still be active and circulating throughout your brain tissue. In other words, by 1:30 a.m., you’re only halfway to completing the job of cleansing your brain of the caffeine you drank after dinner.”
― Matthew Walker, Why We Sleep: The New Science of Sleep and Dreams

“the shorter your sleep, the shorter your life span ”
― Matthew Walker, Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams

“More specifically, the coolheaded ability to regulate our emotions each day—a key to what we call emotional IQ—depends on getting sufficient REM sleep night after night. (If your mind immediately jumped to particular colleagues, friends, and public figures who lack these traits, you may well wonder about how much sleep, especially late-morning REM-rich sleep, they are getting.)”
― Matthew Walker, Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams