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Be warned, that book is riddled with scientific and factual errors: https://guzey.com/books/why-we-sleep/ https://guzey.com/books/why-we-sleep/
by sicromoft 6y ago
Be warned, that book is riddled with scientific and factual errors: https://guzey.com/books/why-we-sleep/ https://guzey.com/books/why-we-sleep/
- hyldmo 6y agoHN thread on guzey's article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21546850 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21546850
- criddell 6y agoWalker has responded to some of this: https://sleepdiplomat.wordpress.com/2019/12/19/why-we-sleep-responses-to-questions-from-readers/ https://sleepdiplomat.wordpress.com/2019/12/19/why-we-sleep-...
- James_Henry 6y agoIs this really Walker? I think that Alexey Guzey responded to this blog post though. It doesn't really counter any of Alexey's points.
- jackTheMan 6y agoVery interesting writing, I wonder if the people sleeping just 6 hours (who are in the best condition acc. to a later explanation) wouldn't be because they have a cause in their life? They have a purpose that is why they get up early and motivated enough to work on it. For people with more sleep might be less motivated in average? Interesting topic nevertheless.
- Darkphibre 6y agoI find this to be true. I sleep in 90-minute sleep cycles. I time my morning alarm thus (adding 10-15 minutes for initial spindown). When I wake up, even if it's 4.5hrs, my brain is typically going a mile-a-minute. There's so much I want to accomplish, it's hard to be mindful and go back to sleep (so I rarely do, especially if it's 'only' 6hrs vs. the 7.5 I seem to need). I looked back at my sleep logs, and I've slept longer than 7.5 only a handful of times in 2020, and it's always correlated with several nights of 1.5, 3, or 4.5 hrs.
- agumonkey 6y agoI wonder if there are other books on the topic that have nicer reviews