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" Your subjective sense of how well you're doing under conditions of sleep deprivation is a miserable predictor of, objectively, how you actually are doing. "

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" Individuals fail to recognise how their perennial state of sleep deficiency has come to compromise their mental aptitude and physical vitality, including the slow accumulation of ill health. "

" Back in the 1940s, people were sleeping on average just a little bit over eight hours a night, and now, in the modern age, we're down to around 6.7, 6.8 hours a night. "

" We have stigmatised sleep with the label of laziness. "

" You're trying to sleep off a debt that you've lumbered your brain and body with during the week, and wouldn't it be lovely if sleep worked like that? Sadly, it doesn't. Sleep is not like the bank, so you can't accumulate a debt and then try and pay it off at a later point in time. "

" You should not actually stay in bed for very long awake, because your brain is this remarkably associative device, and it quickly learns that the bed is about being awake. So you should go to another room - a room that's dim. Just read a book - no screens, no phones - and, only when you're sleepy, return to the bed. "

" If we didn't need eight hours of sleep and could survive on six, Mother Nature would have done away with 25 percent of our sleep time millions of years ago. Because when you think about it, sleep is an idiotic thing to do. "

" We now know that we imprint information during the day. We sort of - that seed is planted there within the brain during the day. In other words, we learn information. But we also know that that vision that was planted in the brain still remains in the sound of silence, in this - in the dark of night. "

" I just tell people I'm a dolphin trainer. It's better for everyone. "

" Creativity is, after all, lauded as the engine of business innovation. "

" It's simply that older adults don't seem to be able to generate sleep efficiently, and that's why they're not getting it. "

" The time of night when you sleep makes a significant difference in terms of the structure and quality of your sleep. "

" Light is a profound degrader of our sleep. "

" Alcohol is a class of drugs that we call 'the sedatives.' And what you're doing is just knocking your brain out. You're not putting it into natural sleep. "

" No one wants to give up time with their family or entertainment, so they give up sleep instead. "

" By keeping patients awake for longer, we build up a strong sleep pressure. "

" Sleep-deprived individuals also generate fewer and less accurate solutions to problems. "

" 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. "

" What is dreaming, and what happens, and are there any real benefits to dreaming? Well, to take a step back, I think it's important to note that dreaming essentially is a time when we all become flagrantly psychotic. "

" Falling asleep is like landing a plane. It takes time. You've got to sort of gradually descend. I think one of the problems with insufficient sleep is people are not very good at predicting how poorly they are doing when they are under-slept. "

" 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. "

" Based on the science, you can make somewhat clear statements: The number of people who can survive on six hours of sleep without impairment is zero. "

" 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. "

" Stay away from screens, especially those LED screens. Those blue-light emitting devices fool your brain into thinking that it's still daytime, even though it's night-time and you want to get to sleep. "

" Below seven hours of sleep, there are objective impairments in the body. Eight hours are recommended. "

" When did a doctor prescribe, not sleeping pills, but sleep itself? It needs to be prioritised, even incentivised. "

" Deep non-REM sleep almost hits the save button on those recently acquired informational pieces so that when you wake up the next morning, you have remembering rather than forgetting. "

" If sleep does not provide a remarkable set of benefits, then it's the biggest mistake the evolutionary process has ever made. "

" I give myself a non-negotiable eight-hour sleep opportunity every night. "

" 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. "

" 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. "