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Matt Walker
British-born neuroscientist and sleep scientist, professor at UC Berkeley and author of "Why We Sleep"; host of The Matt Walker Podcast.
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Nov 3, 2026
The Science of Sleep_ with Matt Walker
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41:43Matt WalkerGUEST
These are this is not sort of well, some people have enacted things such as they get in their car and they actually drive.
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41:49Matt WalkerGUEST
And but most of this happens much lower down the sort of the food chain of basic behaviors.
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42:01Matt WalkerGUEST
And I will get to the Kenny's question as to why does it change as we get older? Why do we have less of these events? But sleep paralysis is a beautiful demonstration of how normally two things go lockstep hand in hand, which is that as we're waking up, well, let me go back.
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The Dreaming Brain with Matt Walker
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The Scientific Formula for Perfect Sleep - Matt Walker | After Skool
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power to stamp the brakes on melatonin but it's still going to help some and people in the extreme north and south latitudes will also use a light box to try to help that light get to them in the morning especially in their respective winters when they're not getting a lot of light.

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And why all of this works is that it not only helps anchor your internal clock by giving it signals of daylight and not just regularity, it will also help with your back-end ability to fall asleep at night at the right time, and when you fall asleep at the right time, it also enhances the quantity and the quality of your sleep.

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So think about your night of sleep starting from the moment that you wake up in the morning during the day.
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