Devon Seegers

“These napping communities have sometimes been described as “the places where people forget to die.” From a prescription written long ago in our ancestral genetic code, the practice of natural biphasic sleep, and a healthy diet, appear to be the keys to a long-sustained life.”
― Matthew Walker, Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams

“After four hours of sleep for six nights, participants' performance was just as bad as those who had not slept for twenty-four hours straight--that is, a 400 percent increase in the number of microsleeps. By day 11 on this diet of four hours of sleep a night, participants' performance had degraded even further, matching that of someone who had pulled two back-to-back all-nighters, going without sleep for forty-eight hours.”
― Matthew Walker, Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams

“Humans need more than seven hours of sleep each night to maintain cognitive performance. After ten days of just seven hours of sleep, the brain is as dysfunctional as it would be after going without sleep for twenty-four hours.”
― Matthew Walker, Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams

“Why, then, would we expect sleep—and the twenty-five to thirty years, on average, it takes from our lives—to offer one function only?”
― Matthew Walker, Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams