6 tips for better sleep | Sleeping with Science, a TED series

6 tips for better sleep | Sleeping with Science, a TED series

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Want to not only fall asleep quickly but also stay asleep longer? Sleep scientist Matt Walker explains how your room temperature, lighting and other easy-to-fix factors can set the stage for a better night’s rest.

Sleeping with Science, a TED series, uncovers the facts and secrets behind our nightly slumber. Check out more episodes on TED.com: https://go.ted.com/sleepingwithscience

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  1. On a certain level, we have sleep in our brain, the neurochemicals that show up in flow: so dopamine, norepinephrine, anandamide, endorphins, and serotonin. If you were to try to cocktail the street drug version of that, right, you're trying to blend like heroin and speed and coke and acid and weed- and point is, you can't do it. It turns out the brain can cocktail all of 'em at once, which is why people will prefer flow to almost any experience on Earth. It's our favorite experience. It's the most addictive experience on Earth. Why? 'Cause it cocktails five or six of the largest pleasure drugs the brain can produce. We're all capable of so much more than we know. That is a commonality across the board. And one of the big reasons is we're all hardwired for flow, and flow is a massive amplification of what's possible for ourselves.

  2. I probably have some of the worst sleep cycles in the world. It’s like a wonky wheel with rattles ?
    But I’m going for it, again, after almost a decade of “what ever, it’s undoable”, that was preceded by 3 decades of regular self torture trying to fit in with the accepted cycle of sleep the rest of society is endowed with.
    I fall asleep around sunrise and wake up several times after, usually, because the rest of the world is up and noisy ?
    But I am giving it another go. No screens after 22:00, cut down lights, no coffee between 6 and 6. It will be interesting to see what happens. If I after 1 month of this regimen still can’t sleep at night I will at least have read more books and be more knowledgable for it ?
    Best of luck to my night owls trying to become the early bird that gets the worm ?

  3. My bestfriend searched something on google that i wasent meant to see.. otherwise my parents would kill me and ruin my friendship i just don't want to think about it

  4. Those advice are for people that don’t really sleep bad. I’m in a 4 days in a row low sleep time and low sleep quality while on amazing vacation, very relaxing. I’m going suicidal about this and everything is going alright in my life. I have no clue

  5. I dont really have issues to fall asleep, i usually fall asleep under the 5 minute mark. but what i don't understand is how people are able to sleep 6 hours every night. Some people sleep even less than that but are taking a nap or two over the days. I REQUIRE to sleep 7 or 8 hours and i dislike that.

  6. I typed in 'good sleeping pattern' in the search bar to this. I seems to get the hang of it. Im a retired man and I seems to always sleep late and wake up in the afternoon. I hate that. I want to be in the morning and live in the morning. Heres what helps me to tune it back:
    ✅Take some sleeping aid/pills and sleep early(around 10:40pm). If you cant control your daytime sleeping, then you'll have a problem with sleeping around that time.
    ✅ To counter daytime sleeping, wake up early with alarm set in 6am and try not to sleep. Drink some coffee and wash the face all the time if your sleepy. And if you cant help it, DO POWER NAPS. 10 Minutes max. Set the time and sleep for only 10 minutes and force yourself to wake up after that.
    ✅ If all that is done, take some sleeping aid again and try again. Dont take sleeping aid/pills often. When the body have recovered the proper time to sleep and wake without any issues, quit the pills. Its not healthy to consume sleeping aid/pills constantly.
    Hope this is useful for people who have this type of problem. Good Luck! ??

  7. I sleep around 7:30 to 8 hrs per day, almost always at 12:00 am to 8:00, I feel like I sleep well, I've got a lot of energy along the day, I feel cool, but my sleeping app says that my deep sleep is super low, and I don't know why
    Can someone help me to understand this please? ?

  8. Up until a month ago I was a good sleeper. I can’t figure out why I can’t get to sleep now until about 2.30am. I have made the bad mistake of not getting out of bed when not sleeping. The last two nights I got up after an hour and a half and read a book. It took me an hour to get sleepy and I only ended up with 4.5 hours sleep but I slept well. I must get up earlier if I can’t sleep and do something else. It is going to be tough but need my sleep pattern back.