Why We Sleep:Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams

In all the wild chaos of the business world, what if it just took perfecting one thing you’ve done almost every night your whole life to have the world make more sense?  In his Why We sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams, Berkeley neuroscience scholar Matthew P. Walker explains how driving the morning after a sleepless night is worse than driving drunk and on drugs simultaneously, and how dreams are almost like a science lab for our emotions. Walker is a British scientist and professor of neuroscience and psychology at the University of California, Berkeley.  His research focuses on the impact of sleep on human health and disease, and he was previously a professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.  Use Big Ideas from Why We sleep to unlock the power of sleep and dreams in your own life.