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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.

Nov 3, 2026

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Something that is very repeatable.
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Yes.
41:43
Yep.
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These are this is not sort of well, some people have enacted things such as they get in their car and they actually drive.
41:49
And but most of this happens much lower down the sort of the food chain of basic behaviors.
41:58
However, sleep paralysis is something a little bit different.
42:01
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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They can develop a problem with this as well.
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