]> 2026-04-10T11:12:32+00:00 Sleep-Lies-Walker - Workflow 0 en The book How We Sleep by Matthew Walker is filled with lies that imply causation for what is only established correlation. As such a loss of sleep is blamed on many things which can cause a loss of sleep. As if the loss of sleep is always under your control. Walker seems to believe that you can just go to sleep whenever you are told to do it. The intro shows the fallacy in his reasoning. Ultimately, asking “Why do we sleep?” was the wrong question. It implied there was a single function, one holy grail of a reason that we slept, and we went in search of it. Theories ranged from the logical (a time for conserving energy), to the peculiar (an opportunity for eyeball oxygenation), to the psychoanalytic (a non-conscious state in which we fulfill repressed wishes). This book will reveal a very different truth: sleep is infinitely more complex, profoundly more interesting, and strikingly health-relevant. We sleep for a rich litany of functions, plural—an abundant constellation of nighttime benefits that service both our brains and our bodies. There does not seem to be one major organ within the body, or process within the brain, that isn’t optimally enhanced by sleep (and detrimentally impaired when we don’t get enough). That we receive such a bounty of health benefits each night should not Walker, Matthew. Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (p. 6). Scribner. Kindle Edition. be surprising. After all, we are awake for two-thirds of our lives, and we don’t just achieve one useful thing during that stretch of time. We accomplish myriad undertakings that promote our own well-being and survival. Why, then, would we expect sleep—and the twenty-five to thirty years, on average, it takes from our lives—to offer one function only? Through an explosion of discoveries over the past twenty years, we have come to realize that evolution did not make a spectacular blunder in conceiving of sleep. Sleep dispenses a multitude of health-ensuring benefits, yours to pick up in repeat prescription every twenty-four hours, should you choose. Within the brain, sleep enriches a diversity of functions, including our ability to learn, memorize, and make logical decisions and choices. Benevolently servicing our psychological health, sleep recalibrates our emotional brain circuits, allowing us to navigate next-day social and psychological Walker, Matthew. Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (pp. 6-7). Scribner. Kindle Edition. Other questions that can draw out signs of insufficient sleep are: If you didn’t set an alarm clock, would you sleep past that time? (If so, you need more sleep than you are giving yourself.) Do you find yourself at your computer screen reading and then rereading (and perhaps rereading again) the same sentence? (This is often a sign of a fatigued, under-slept brain.) Do you sometimes forget what color the last few traffic lights were while driving? (Simple distraction is often the cause, but a lack of sleep is another culprit.) Correlation is Not Causation Lie Afe3iaBagDafEciAbaGd Workflow User:Rht5 User:Bas 5 User:Frank Sleep-Lies-Walker https://www.amazon.com/Why-We-Sleep-Unlocking-Dreams-ebook/dp/B06ZZ1YGJ5/ <i>If you didn’t set an alarm clock, would you sleep past that time? </i><div>(<b>If so, you need more sleep than you are giving yourself.</b>) </div> No done done Settled Correlation is Not Causation Lie Sleep-Lies-Walker - Workflow 2022-05-30T13:38:48Z 2459730.0686111 Sleep-Lies-Walker - Workflow 1785 0 1 plainlist 4 [[Class::Suit]] [[Case ID::Afe3iaBagDafEciAbaGd]] Sleep-Lies-Walker - Workflow# QUERY8348c1c6a587f4b18bbc6f4a6d76fdfa Verdict:Afe3iaBagDafEciAbaGd/1 3000 en Afe3iaBagDafEciAbaGd/1 Verdict:Afe3iaBagDafEciAbaGd/2 3000 en Afe3iaBagDafEciAbaGd/2 Verdict:Afe3iaBagDafEciAbaGd/3 3000 en Afe3iaBagDafEciAbaGd/3 Verdict:Afe3iaBagDafEciAbaGd/4 3000 en Afe3iaBagDafEciAbaGd/4 Verdict:Afe3iaBagDafEciAbaGd/5 3000 en Afe3iaBagDafEciAbaGd/5 Participant/1653915756 0 en Participant/1653915756 Participant/1653916706 0 en Participant/1653916706 Participant/1653916890 0 en Participant/1653916890 Participant/1653916941 0 en Participant/1653916941 Participant/290 0 en Participant/290 Sleep-Lies-Walker 0 en Sleep-Lies-Walker Workflow 102 en Workflow