The book that I read for this book report was, "Why We Sleep" by Matthew Walker. The book is laid out to inform us about any crucial or good reasonings that sleeping has. This book describes what it is to sleep, from the mental health problems, to the immune system and the coolest part to me which was the cardiovascular system. From learning the meaning of sleeping a little to sleeping more than we should, it was all fascinating to understand because of the many reasons we did not know how sleep can either affect us or be a good thing for us. Dreaming is something we all do, even if it was at least once in your life, everyone has had a dream before; the book talks about how dreams work. There are many details like we all think sleeping is to feel better the next morning and not wake up tired.In this book Matthew actually explains how sleeping is used to control how we feel, fight sickness and I feel like that is something I do when I'm sick or I'm not feeling great and my sleep fights it off in someway.
My favorite part of this book has to be about dreaming. I did not know that being able to dream would provide a unique way we all get to experience. When you dream you're sometimes thinking you have been dreaming for hours from everything that might have been going on in the dream, but then you get woken up to. I also did not know that seconds before dreaming you will get completely paralyzed. As well as the reason your muscle activity is being eliminated at the time of you having your dream is because it will stop you from acting out, or doing something that is happening in your dream which is something I never knew.
In the rewards lecture slides, it talks about the reinforcements there are for the effect on behaviors and the part that was mentioned about being paralyzed so you don’t do something that is happening in your sleep. The book as well as the lecture slides have a lot of information that has to do with us making our poor choices, like getting a little bit of sleep and being sleep deprived, that is an option, not a choice.
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