Assalamu alaikum!

Welcome to Dr. Laura’s Book Club: Why We Sleep!

InshAllah we’ll be discussing the book “Why We Sleep” by Dr. Matthew Walker…

This book has literally changed my life, and I can’t wait to share it with you! Did you know that getting enough sleep is even more important than a healthy diet and exercise? And that a deficit of just 1-2 hours per night can have a profound impact on the physical, mental, and emotional health of you and your children?

I’ll be providing audio summaries of each chapter inshAllah. This book contains 16 chapters, and is divided into 4 sections.

Chapter 5 talks a lot about the importance of sleep for our children. I’ve made this little gift for the children in your life, to teach them about the importance of a good night’s sleep…

Check back every few days for the next chapter’s audio. So let’s get started!

Audio Summaries for Dr. Laura’s Book Club: Why We Sleep

Part 1: This Thing Called Sleep

Chapter 1: To Sleep…

Chapter 2: Caffeine, Jet Lag, and Melatonin: Losing and Gaining Control of Your Sleep Rhythm

NOTE: I made mistake in this audio regarding jet lag… I said that it would take your body 8 hours to adjust to an 8 hour time difference, whereas I meant to say 8 days. If only it took 8 hours! 

Chapter 3: Defining and Generating Sleep: Time Dilation and What We Learned from a Baby in 1952

Chapter 4: Ape Beds, Dinosaurs, and Napping with Half a Brain: Who Sleeps, How Do We Sleep, and How Much?

Chapter 5: Changes in Sleep Across the Life Span

 

---

Part 2: Why Should You Sleep?

Chapter 6: Your Mother and Shakespeare Knew: The Benefits of Sleep for the Brain

Chapter 7: Too Extreme for the Guinness Book of World Records: Sleep Deprivation and the Brain

Chapter 8: Cancer, Heart Attacks, and a Shorter Life: Sleep Deprivation and the Body

---

Part 3: How and Why We Dream

Chapter 9: Routinely Psychotic: REM-Sleep Dreaming

Chapter 10: Dreaming as Overnight Therapy

Chapter 11: Dream Creativity and Dream Control

---

Part 4: From Sleeping Pills to Society Transformed

Chapter 12: Things That Go Bump in the Night: Sleep Disorders and Death Caused by No Sleep

Chapter 13: iPads, Factory Whistles, and Nightcaps: What’s Stopping You from Sleeping?

Chapter 14: Hurting and Helping Your Sleep: Pills vs. Therapy

Chapter 15: Sleep and Society: What Medicine and Education Are Doing Wrong; What Google and NASA Are Doing Right

Chapter 16: A New Vision for Sleep in the Twenty-First Century