Why We Sleep: Science of Sleep & Dreams | Matthew Walker | Talks at Google

Professor Matthew Walker, Director of UC Berkeley’s Sleep and Neuroimaging Lab discusses the latest discoveries about sleep and how it impacts our life, wellness, and lifespan.

[unselfme]

Matthew is an unbelievably good speaker: tone of voice, pitch, pace, choice of words, it is absolutely amazing. So much to learn from him beyond sleep.

[philmaturanodrums]

I lived in Argentina for four years as a kid. There you have the option to go to school in the morning or in the afternoon! Amazing! I went to the afternoon school and was never happier as a kid

[BradiKal]

I read his book, and now Im literally afraid to not get enough sleep.

I am thoroughly convinced that lack of sleep is to blame for the generally crappy health that Americans and many other people around the world are suffering.

[outlaw]

I once was had sleep deprivation for about 3 months. Getting maybe 3 hrs good sleep a night. It destroyed my life basically. Took me months to recover. I believe everything Matt saying. Thanks Matt! Your work is important!

[kevinmata]

Watch this twice.

Once for the info

Another time to observe how well he planned this lecture. Great speaker.

[tigruana]

I've been working in a place for 3 years of constant sleep deprivation regularly doing 20 hr work marathons with half hour naps here and there, I've no excuse for that, but that's the time I started loosing hair on alarming scale, I was looking like a professional alcoholic, of course I was consuming lots of bread and sugar too, but sleep improved my health considerable after quitting the job and sleeping well for several months.

[edisjd]

Sleep is vital, somehow it's viewed as a negative in today's society

[saaar_mk]

This makes me wonder how I am still alive.

[greenspand]

I am working on my sleep patterns after seeing this talk.

[hendcorp]

I watch this video at 10:30pm my local time and it makes me wants to go bed as soon as possible and continue watch it on tomorrow morning. See you tomorrow. :D

[jthomas]

BRILLIANT!!! I had no idea how important sleep actually was. Then it's very scary what we're doing to our body's when we don't get it, I'm also a health freak so this seriously scared my especially the testicals bit haha. For the 1st time in a while I've had a good night's sleep. Last night I had 0 caffeine in the day, I turned off my electronics at night, looked at no LEDS screens 2 hours before bed and just chose to sit and read in a dimmed room 1hr before bed (usually watch tv or on smart phone) my sleep increased from average 4-6 hours to last night 10 hours and I feel great. I feel like this video has changed my life. Thank you Professor Matthew Walker.

[ch-zfzl]

Matthew is the only man i ever seen so well rested lol just look at his under eyes, they look so bright!

[sindys]

Absolutely the best lecture I have ever heard. I might be over 30 years too late. I have had chronic fatigue insomnia for over 25 years. I learned that sleep was an important factor amongst other things long time ago. I have been on sleep medications since then which still only gave me 5-6 hours sleep every night. I have been a caffeine addict because I felt that was the only thing that gave me noticeable amount of energy. After doing all kinds of diets supplements and exercises I realise sleep is the single most important thing above anything else. I have such a lot of memory problems, fatigue and loads of other symptoms. I don't know if I can reverse 30 years of damage, but If I can halt full blown dementia and other conditions, I will be happy. So my New Year resolution is to work on my sleep a top priority. Which means- exercise early, go in the sun, good diet, meditate, try to control stresses, no caffeine after 2 and try to wean off it. No blue light after 9. Go to bed by 10 and sleep in the dark. Try to wake up naturally and work on getting 8 hours sleep. Thank you so so much!

[DG-ncjc]

By listening to this, he made me fall asleep... So it's a win win!

[cparwati]

The book is Decades of precious knowledge that we never realized. Sleep is super super important !

[dailyDosageofEng]

His articulacy and eloquency is just striking me more than what he spoke on regard of sleep(Great message though). Especially the Q&A session where the spectators posed questions with slumber American-accent filled with filler words and him responding with rich communication skills has profound contrasting differences.

[sleepsciencevideos]

Sleep deprivation can can very detrimental consequences for your physical, mental and emotional health.
Make sure in 2020 you prioritise adequate sleep.

[sigupmj]

Well as a TBI/Ataxic (8 mos) “survivor” and Diabetic (II) (5 yrs) I’ll just say this seems true - Anxiety/Depression and worse seems closely linked to sleep loss, immune deficiency and social isolation (can’t relate or connect to anyone anymore)

[ujjawalagrawal]

My dad works for google and saw this live and since then he was takn sleep so much more seriourly.

[oliviawoods]

One of the best speakers ever....let's learn from him for our public speaking. His research is brilliant too!