(1) Why we sleep, de Matthew Walker - recenzie carte

La finalul anului trecut am facut postarea [asta](https://www.reddit.com/r/Romania/comments/r9drcy/ce_carte_ați_citit_care_va_schimbat_viața_sau_a/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3) unde va rugam sa imi recomandati carti care v-au schimbat viata. Prima carte de pe care am ales sa o adaug pe [lista](https://www.reddit.com/r/Romania/comments/rptg6h/aproape_50_de_cărți_de_citit_de_rromania_in_2022/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3) ([**https://imgur.com/a/iMxly0f**](https://imgur.com/a/iMxly0f)**)** a fost ***Why we sleep*** (***De ce dormim***) de ***Matthew Walker.***

>”Oamenii de ştiință au descoperit un nou tratament revoluționar care vă ajută să trăiți mai mult. Vă îmbunătățește memoria și vă face mai creativi. Vă face să arătaţi mai atrăgători. Vă menține în formă și diminuează pofta de mâncare. Vă protejează de cancer şi demență. Ține la distanţă răcelile şi gripa. Vă scade riscul de atacuri cerebrale și infarct, ca să nu mai vorbim despre diabet. Vă veți și simți mai fericiți, mai puțin deprimați și mai puțin anxioşi. Vă interesează? (…) Desigur, reclama nu descrie cine știe ce nouă tinctură miraculoasă ori vreun medicament-minune care vindecă de toate, ci pur și simplu beneficiile dovedite ale unei nopți complete de somn.

Pentru mine, un tanar de 20 de ani care privea somnul ca ceva optional, gandindu-ma ca daca fac o noapte alba urmarind un serial si dorm mai mult in urmatoarea, e perfect ok si ca nu are cum sa ma afecteze negativ. Nu? A fost atat de fascinanta cartea si m-a speriat atat de tare incat nu numai ca am dormit cel putin 8 ore in ultima saptamana (si o sa continui sa fac asta tot restul vietii), dar m-a ajutat si sa inteleg cat de important e somnul in mai toate aspectele vietii, precum si in dezvoltarea noastra ca civilizatie.

Autorul cartii este profesor de neurostiinta la Universitatea din California. Si-a dedicat intreaga viata studiind somnul si ce se intampla cu creierul nostru atunci cand dormim. Cartea isi propune sa explice pe intelesul tuturor, indiferent de varsta si ocupatie, de la ce inseamna REM si NREM, pana la cercetarile lui Freud despre ce ne face sa visam. Daca aveti probleme cu concentrarea, daca sunteti nervosi si anxiosi mai tot timpul, daca vreti sa traiti cat mai mult si sa va cresteti calitatea vieti sau pur si simplu sunteti curiosi sa aflati detalii fascinante despre somni, e o carte pe care trebuie sa o cititi. Mi-ar fi placut foarte mult daca parintii mei ar fi citit cartea cand eram adolescent, poate ar fi inteles de ce este imposibil pentru mine si tinerii de varsta mea sa adormim la 10-11 oricat de mult incercam.

Am dat peste un grafic interesant in carte si, comparativ cu somnul meu, e foarte exact. [https://imgur.com/a/OTmMO5V](https://imgur.com/a/OTmMO5V). Chiar daca, uneori, autorul intra foarte mult in detalii, erau totusi importante pentru a aprofunda subiectul. Poate parea plictisitoare pe alocuri, nu e o lectura usor de parcurs, eu m-am chinuit destul de mult sa citesc 60 de pagini pe zi, dar sunt de parere ca e o carte care trebuie citita de toata lumea macar odata in viata. Pe [goodreads](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34466963-why-we-sleep) are 4.35/5 din 120k ratinguri si cred ca este o nota corecta.

Urmatoarea carte de pe lista este ***Atomic Habits***. Voi posta recenzie la ea duminica urmatoare.

Ati citit ***Why we sleep***? V-a schimbat viata in vreun fel si daca da, care a fost cea mai importanta lectie invatata din carte? Va astept in sectiunea de comentarii sa o discutam.

Am dat peste recenzia lui Bill Gates. E interesanta.

>Back in my early Microsoft days, I routinely pulled all-nighters when we had to deliver a piece of software. Once or twice, I stayed up two nights in a row. I knew I wasn’t as sharp when I was operating mostly on caffeine and adrenaline, but I was obsessed with my work, and I felt that sleeping a lot was lazy.Now that I’ve read Matthew Walker’s Why We Sleep, I realize that my all-nighters, combined with almost never getting eight hours of sleep, took a big toll. The book was recommended to me by my daughter Jenn and John Doerr. Walker, the director of UC Berkeley’s Center for Human Sleep Science, explains how neglecting sleep undercuts your creativity, problem solving, decision-making, learning, memory, heart health, brain health, mental health, emotional well-being, immune system, and even your life span. “The decimation of sleep throughout industrialized nations is having a catastrophic impact,” Walker writes.I don’t necessarily buy into all of Walker’s reporting, such as the strong link he claims between not getting enough sleep and developing Alzheimer’s. In an effort to wake us all up to the harm of sleeping too little, he sometimes reports as fact what science has not yet clearly demonstrated. But even if you apply a mild discount factor, Why We Sleep is an important and fascinating book.Because this is a short review, I’ll answer a few questions that I suspect are top of mind for you.Does everyone really need seven or eight hours of sleep a night? The answer is that you almost certainly do, even if you’ve convinced yourself otherwise. In the words of Dr. Thomas Roth, of the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, “The number of people who can survive on five hours of sleep or less without impairment, and rounded to a whole number, is zero.”Why do we sleep? After all, when you’re sleeping—and all animals do—you can’t hunt, gather, eat, reproduce, or defend yourself. Yet Walker concludes that the evolutionary upsides of sleep are far greater than these downsides. In brief, sleep produces complex neurochemical baths that improve our brains in various ways. And it “restocks the armory of our immune system, helping fight malignancy, preventing infection, and warding off all manner of sickness.” In other words, sleep greatly enhances our evolutionary fitness—just in ways we can’t see.What can I do to improve my sleep hygiene?- Replace any LEDs bulbs in your bedroom, because they emit the most sleep-corroding blue light.- If you’re fortunate enough to be able to control the temperature where you live, set your bedroom to drop to 65 degrees at the time you intend to go to sleep. “To successfully initiate sleep … your core temperature needs to decrease by 2 to 3 degrees Fahrenheit,” according to Walker.- Limit alcohol, because alcohol is not a sleep aid, contrary to popular belief. While it might help induce sleep, “alcohol is one of the most powerful suppressors of REM [rapid-eye-movement] sleep,” Walker says.- If you can possibly take a short midday nap like our ancestors used to and some Mediterranean and South American cultures still do, you should (but no later than 3 pm). It will likely improve your creativity and coronary health as well as extend your lifetime.It took me a little longer than usual to finish Why We Sleep—ironically, because I kept following Walker’s advice to put down the book I was reading a bit earlier than I was used to, so I could get a better night’s sleep. But Walker taught me a lot about this basic activity that every person on Earth needs. I suspect his book will do the same for you.

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Kr3ativ says:

2022-01-09 at 14:58

Am dat peste recenzia lui Bill Gates. E interesanta.



>Back in my early Microsoft days, I routinely pulled all-nighters when we had to deliver a piece of software. Once or twice, I stayed up two nights in a row. I knew I wasn’t as sharp when I was operating mostly on caffeine and adrenaline, but I was obsessed with my work, and I felt that sleeping a lot was lazy.Now that I’ve read Matthew Walker’s Why We Sleep, I realize that my all-nighters, combined with almost never getting eight hours of sleep, took a big toll. The book was recommended to me by my daughter Jenn and John Doerr. Walker, the director of UC Berkeley’s Center for Human Sleep Science, explains how neglecting sleep undercuts your creativity, problem solving, decision-making, learning, memory, heart health, brain health, mental health, emotional well-being, immune system, and even your life span. “The decimation of sleep throughout industrialized nations is having a catastrophic impact,” Walker writes.I don’t necessarily buy into all of Walker’s reporting, such as the strong link he claims between not getting enough sleep and developing Alzheimer’s. In an effort to wake us all up to the harm of sleeping too little, he sometimes reports as fact what science has not yet clearly demonstrated. But even if you apply a mild discount factor, Why We Sleep is an important and fascinating book.Because this is a short review, I’ll answer a few questions that I suspect are top of mind for you.Does everyone really need seven or eight hours of sleep a night? The answer is that you almost certainly do, even if you’ve convinced yourself otherwise. In the words of Dr. Thomas Roth, of the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, “The number of people who can survive on five hours of sleep or less without impairment, and rounded to a whole number, is zero.”Why do we sleep? After all, when you’re sleeping—and all animals do—you can’t hunt, gather, eat, reproduce, or defend yourself. Yet Walker concludes that the evolutionary upsides of sleep are far greater than these downsides. In brief, sleep produces complex neurochemical baths that improve our brains in various ways. And it “restocks the armory of our immune system, helping fight malignancy, preventing infection, and warding off all manner of sickness.” In other words, sleep greatly enhances our evolutionary fitness—just in ways we can’t see.What can I do to improve my sleep hygiene?- Replace any LEDs bulbs in your bedroom, because they emit the most sleep-corroding blue light.- If you’re fortunate enough to be able to control the temperature where you live, set your bedroom to drop to 65 degrees at the time you intend to go to sleep. “To successfully initiate sleep … your core temperature needs to decrease by 2 to 3 degrees Fahrenheit,” according to Walker.- Limit alcohol, because alcohol is not a sleep aid, contrary to popular belief. While it might help induce sleep, “alcohol is one of the most powerful suppressors of REM [rapid-eye-movement] sleep,” Walker says.- If you can possibly take a short midday nap like our ancestors used to and some Mediterranean and South American cultures still do, you should (but no later than 3 pm). It will likely improve your creativity and coronary health as well as extend your lifetime.It took me a little longer than usual to finish Why We Sleep—ironically, because I kept following Walker’s advice to put down the book I was reading a bit earlier than I was used to, so I could get a better night’s sleep. But Walker taught me a lot about this basic activity that every person on Earth needs. I suspect his book will do the same for you.
xesSells says:

2022-01-09 at 15:14

Ce aplicație folosești pentru listă?
Foreign_Nectarine_59 says:

2022-01-09 at 15:16

Felicitari OP ca te-ai tinut de ce ai zis! Am citit postul tau initial cand ai anuntat care e planul tau, asa ca am dat up-vote instant cand am vazut prima recenzie!

Iti urez sa ai energie sa o faci si pe a doua si pe a treia, dupa aceea va fi mai greu sa renunti decat sa continui.

Legat de Why we sleep, excelenta carte, m-a ajutat foarte mult sa nu mai beau mai mult de o cafea pe zi, dimineata.

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