We’re actually preparing to wake up around an hour and a half before we actually do wake up. The body starts preparing to wake up. Jan Born did some work in this very area a few years ago... Читать далее
Sleep need becomes fixed in our early 20s. Basically, once we've been through puberty and our teenage years. What happens as we get older is that our ability to get that sleep changes... Читать далее
If I could answer that question I’d be sat here polishing my Nobel Prize! The bizarre thing about sleep is that it’s a biological necessity. We have to do it. Basically anything with a... Читать далее
A siesta is much more in keeping with hotter countries where at the height of the midday sun it’s inadvisable to be doing anything. From an evolutionary point of view on the plains of... Читать далее
Sleep need is individual. It's like height. Some of us are short, some of us are tall. Some of us are short sleepers; some of us are long sleepers.
In general anywhere between four and... Читать далее
She couldn’t. It’s a pack of lies. When Charles Moore wrote the first volume of his biography of Thatcher, he was asked about this. He said there was absolutely no evidence that she only... Читать далее
Not really. The thing that is important, the key thing, is to sleep for the amount that you need. These days, the eight-hour myth is so prevalent that people are genuinely disappointed if... Читать далее