{"id":17923,"date":"2021-09-03T12:22:45","date_gmt":"2021-09-03T18:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=17923"},"modified":"2021-09-03T12:22:45","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T18:22:45","slug":"book-35-of-52-why-we-sleep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/book-35-of-52-why-we-sleep\/","title":{"rendered":"Book 35 (of 52) &#8211; Why We Sleep"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_17924\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/whywesleep.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17924\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17924\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/whywesleep.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"529\" srcset=\"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/whywesleep.jpg 350w, https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/whywesleep-198x300.jpg 198w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-17924\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Why We Sleep: Unlocking The Power Of Sleep And Dreams &#8211; Matthew Walker<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In my latest audiobook adventure, Steve West reads Matthew Walker&#8217;s <em>Why We Sleep<\/em>, a treatise on the importance of proper sleep.\u00a0 He details why and how we sleep, what happens when we dream, the impact sleeping and dreaming have on the brain, and disorders that get in the way of sleep.<\/p>\n<p>What he doesn&#8217;t address is how to go about getting that elusive 8 hours of sleep per night.\u00a0 I haven&#8217;t set an alarm clock in years and, on a real good night, I max out around 7 hours (according to my Fitbit).\u00a0 Most nights I&#8217;m lucky to get 6.\u00a0 Though, I will say, since I started &#8220;reading&#8221; this book, I have been sleeping in a little more.\u00a0 Maybe the power of suggestion is all I needed?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my latest audiobook adventure, Steve West reads Matthew Walker&#8217;s Why We Sleep, a treatise on the importance of proper sleep.\u00a0 He details why and how we sleep, what happens when we dream, the impact sleeping and dreaming have on the brain, and disorders that get in the way of sleep. What he doesn&#8217;t address [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5199,9767,9768,9766],"class_list":["post-17923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","tag-fitbit","tag-matthew-walker","tag-steve-west","tag-why-we-sleep"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17923"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17925,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17923\/revisions\/17925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}