Obsession: Andrew Solomon on Sleep
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- čas přidán 12. 05. 2013
- Author and essayist Andrew Solomon has written on a widely divergent range of topics, including Soviet artists, Libyan governance, childrearing, and the politics of the deaf. For this event, his famously obsessive attention focused on the topic of sleep.
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I love listening to Andrew Solomon speak. Not just content -- voice and his quick clip.
I feel the same. I love his voice. I hope he did the audio versions of his book.
I completely understand Andrew. That time between 11pm and 3am is blissful!
+DirtPeak Not if you are an insomniac and are desperately trying to go to sleep!
"we get sleepy"
I love when scientists remind us how much we have yet to learn.
"God help me. I'm so tired. I need my sleep. I make no bones about it. I need eight hours a day, and at least ten at night"
I love this guy!!!
I have been struggling with depression and anxiety for 11 years. Sometimes I can sleep for 10, that's what I need. Then times when my depression is on a rampant, I can't sleep at all. I have slept walked and my laundry was everywhere all over the living room..I don't remember it at all. It can be scary. My dreams are very vivid and I remember them with great detail. I especially dream of the Family member that have past away. I feel as though my dreams haunt me..I have a lot of nightmares. More than good dreams..so much that I'm scared to go to sleep. I think of sleep as the closest thing to death without the commitment. I just stared therapy and I found out I'm not breathing right, I can't remember the last time I actually belly breathed, maybe when I sleep.. I'm learning but it's more difficult than I thought.
Now I know why sleep was my favorite pastime in college.
Andrew, suweeet!
This ties into another Ted Talk the neuroscience of sleep
Great observation David! This TED talk by Russell Foster ties in perfectly: Russell Foster: Why do we sleep?
I also sleep with my head resting on my hand or on my back with my legs crossed like I am sitting and go through periods of dreams that are increadibly stressfull about stunningly mundane issues and interactions like I will start talking in my sleep and was in the middle of some argument with my mother or trying to get somme municiple representative to adress an issue we are having with our city services.
Read: The Sleep Revolution by Arianna Huffington.
muito interessante minha filha ama seus livros...
Dear Andrew Solomon, please warn people about Seroquel. It has so many side effects. It really screwed up my life.
If only the mics that the ladies were using were connected to a louder system, I cannot hear them properly!!!
My theory about snoring is that it was one of the most honored of characteristics for our primitive ancestors. Those who snored the loudest slept in the path where predators would walk. If a predator approached they would hear this massive snoring and just avoid confrontation. I'd say that snoring is therefore a preferred biological traits responsible for our survival in the times of the hunter gatherer period of our history. When we snore, we sound like the worst kind of predator sending out a warning to bigger predators that they were in danger. Kinda like the roar of a lion. Snoring is quite unpleasant to everyone unless it saves your life.
Very interesting!
Absolute bs. Snoring is a milder version of sleep apnoea which is a deadly chronic conduction which increases your risk for cardiovascular disease and early death. Please do not miseducate people!
I would love nothing more than to meet him...like take my right arm off in exchange of the chance of meeting him
During the last summer, I could never sleep, so I would take about 40 mg of melatonin every night, and I would just pass out an hour later (I would watch hours of Netflix every night, until about 4 am)
Melatonin can cause joint pain in older women. but works great for everyone else.
irl sheldon
but he's a really likable person