126: Matthew Walker | Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
The Jordan Harbinger Show
Jordan Harbinger
4.8 • 12.3K Ratings
🗓️ 27 November 2018
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Matthew Walker (@sleepdiplomat) is Professor of Neuroscience and Psychology at the University of California in Berkeley, founder and director of the Center for Human Sleep Science, and author of Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams.
"The shorter your sleep, the shorter your life." -Dr. Matthew Walker
What We Discuss with Matthew Walker:- Why you're not lazy if you don't happen to be a morning person (it's genetic).
- What it means when you always seem to wake up right before your alarm.
- What's going on in your dreams (lucid or otherwise) and what can you learn from them?
- How to train yourself to go to sleep at the time that's ideal for you.
- Mistakes you're making that keep you from getting optimal results at bedtime.
- And much more...
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the show. I'm Jordan Harbinger. As always, I'm here with my producer, Jason DeFilippo. |
| 0:05.3 | A lot of us, whether we're entrepreneurs or nine to fiveers, we want to optimize our sleep. |
| 0:10.4 | Or just get more or better sleep. There's been a lot of talk about sleep hacks in the business |
| 0:15.1 | and health community lately, but much of it has been pseudoscience and not come from the people |
| 0:19.5 | who are actually doing the research. That changes now. Today, we're talking with my friend Matthew |
| 0:24.8 | Walker. He's a scientist and professor of neuroscience and psychology at the University of California |
| 0:29.9 | Berkeley and his research focuses on the impact of sleep on human health and disease. He also |
| 0:35.6 | doesn't seem to be aging all that much because he looks like a 20 something. So perhaps there really |
| 0:40.0 | is something to this whole sleep thing. And that is what we're going to discuss today. First, |
| 0:45.0 | we're going to scare the crap out of everyone by talking about what happens when you don't get |
| 0:48.4 | enough sleep. I know most of us just have to look in the mirror to see those effects, but it's |
| 0:52.7 | actually far worse than it seems. And I want you to get a full grasp of what sleep does for us |
| 0:57.5 | and how we can make sure we're getting enough of it. After our deep dive on sleep and health, |
| 1:02.0 | you're going to learn the answers to some questions we've all got about sleep, such as, |
| 1:05.7 | why do I wake up right before my alarm? What's going on in my dreams and what do they mean? |
| 1:10.0 | What is lucid dreaming and how come sometimes I can control what I'm dreaming about? |
| 1:14.4 | Y'all know me. I'm full of weird questions and I've dialed in on Matthew today to get some |
| 1:18.4 | interesting nuggets that you can use to improve your sleep as well as your understanding of your |
| 1:23.2 | own sleep. And finally, we'll talk about how we can use sleep and sleep management to learn |
| 1:28.6 | better, make more memories and skills sink in more effectively, and avoid some common misconceptions |
| 1:33.9 | that almost everyone has about their own sleep. This was an absolutely fascinating interview and |
| 1:40.0 | I could have gone on for hours. There's just so much practical information in here that we can |
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