
Walker is the author of the International Bestseller, Why We Sleep. He has received numerous funding awards from the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health, and is a Kavli Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences.ĭr. Walker’s research examines the impact of sleep on human health and disease.

He is also the founder and director of the Center for Human Sleep Science.ĭr. Currently, he is Professor of Neuroscience and Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, USA. He subsequently became a Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, USA. Walker earned his degree in neuroscience from Nottingham University, UK, and his PhD in neurophysiology from the Medical Research Council, London, UK. How has dreaming been impacted by the coronavirus pandemic?ĭr. The importance of dreaming for emotional health, and how the coronavirus pandemic has increased dreaming ”ģ-Dreaming : People have been reporting having more dreams since the pandemic began

And then they sleep more on the weekends to “make up” for the lost sleep.Many people are sleeping less due to obligations during the week (getting kids to school, being at work on time, getting home late after a long commute, etc.).Meaning, the difference between the sleep that you’re getting during the week versus the weekend.Two peer-reviewed papers from Current Biology added more nuance-ġ-Total amount of sleep had increased by 15 minutes They found total sleep time had increased across the entire country by ~20%.The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted sleep in 3 ways :Ī sleep tracking company that released data on ~68,000 individuals Δ Three ways that the coronavirus pandemic has impacted sleep Subscribe on: APPLE PODCASTS | RSS | GOOGLE | OVERCAST | STITCHER Matthew finishes by addressing several of the errors that readers have pointed out in his book, Why We Sleep.

He then covers topics such as how dreaming affects emotional health, the different sleep chronotypes, the best sleep hygiene tips, and the pros and cons of napping. In this episode, sleep expert Matthew Walker returns by popular demand to dive deeper into many sleep-related topics, starting with what we’ve learned about sleep through the lens of the COVID-19 pandemic and how sleep impacts the immune system.
