Matthew Walker
The Visionary
The future, and what is barely possible, reads round the next corner.
Matthew Walker reads as The Visionary because he has treated sleep not as a niche of neuroscience but as a frontier worth redrawing the map for.
“In science, we think of taking medicines as putting us out of balance, and that's the mentality that people have. I think rightly so as to their resistance against pharmacology.”
“Vestibular system fool your brain into thinking that it's rocking, and could I do that also then, could I do it even more carefully where that device that I put into the ear also has a sensor because it turns out that you can pick up electrical brainwave activity that is bleed over and it comes down into the ear.”
“Movie No, I think it would be put in take out. And in fact, I was at a conference some years ago, and I'd already put together the patent, but I think maybe the military, maybe it was DARPA, the sort of the advanced component of the American military.”
“One and a half cups of coffee. What we can see is a decrease in the amount of deep non-rem sleep, particularly in the first two hours of the night. It can decimate that deep sleep. In fact, there was a reduction if you look at that. And we've done some of these studies by a single cup of coffee in the evening.”
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