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- Nov 07, 2020
Sleep Quotes
Rest, routine, and the odd things said half-asleep.
This sleep quotes collection is refreshingly ordinary: sleep-talking material for jokes, a strict weekday sleep schedule, sleeping on the floor of a plane to hear the engine, and the specific comfort of stretching out diagonally across the mattress when no one's there to object. See Day for the other half of the routine.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The gross demonstration of caffeine is that it prevents you from falling asleep. The slightly more nefarious aspect of caffeine is that maybe you can fall asleep, but we know that the depth of deep sleep you're getting if caffeine is still in your system is severely less.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
No one wants to give up time with their family or entertainment, so they give up sleep instead.
- Laziness
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have stigmatised sleep with the label of laziness.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I give lectures, people will wait behind until there is no one around and then tell me quietly, 'I seem to be one of those people who need eight or nine hours' sleep.' It's embarrassing to say it in public.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sleep is the Swiss army knife of health. When sleep is deficient, there is sickness and disease. And when sleep is abundant, there is vitality and health.
- Mistake
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- Nov 07, 2020
If sleep does not provide a remarkable set of benefits, then it's the biggest mistake the evolutionary process has ever made.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People dramatically underestimate how much sleep is linked to all the diseases killing us. We know a lack of sleep is linked to numerous forms of cancer - bowel, prostate, breast cancer.
- Hours
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- Nov 07, 2020
Below seven hours of sleep, there are objective impairments in the body. Eight hours are recommended.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you look at how humans tend to want to sleep, it seems to be either, you know, sort of a monophasic way or at least a biphasic way, where there's, perhaps, a long bout during the night and then maybe a siesta-like pattern during the day.
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- Nov 07, 2020
As you try to tweak your sleep one way or the other, you might be, you might be doing great - you might do better at remembering details of an event, but you might end up being poorer at abstracting the gist or the rules associated with it.
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's not that we simply get old, and memory starts to go, and sleep starts to deteriorate. But those two things actually are significantly interrelated.
- Denies
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our circadian biology, and the insatiable early-morning demands of a post-industrial way of life, denies us the sleep we vitally need.
- Deficiency
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- Nov 07, 2020