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A review by elenagroves
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams by Matthew Walker
5.0
Life changing. The actual email I just sent to this book's author:
"Dear Dr. Walker,
I am unsure whether this message will reach you, but I just finished reading Why We Sleep in its entirety, and I cannot recall another book ever having had such a striking effect on me.
I recently started my first job as a speech-language pathologist in a nursing home outside of the XX area, and the residents I treat are highly vocal about their often daily fatigue/pain and lack of sufficiently long and/or satisfying sleep during the night.
I often feel stuck in my treatment of cognitive-communication skills such as short-term memory, as I feel (with my newly bolstered knowledge of the relationship between sleep and memory) that this poor sleep hygiene, including the propagation of sleeping pills by the nursing staff, is preventing progress on this and other fronts, including occupational and physical therapy. Seriously, some residents will enter into multiple microsleeps during our 35-minute sessions.
While I am fresh in my field and brand-new to the skilled nursing setting, your and others' work has inspired me to look into this pervasive issue at my workplace to see what can be done to more effectively promote proper sleep hygiene. More than anything, I want to try to break this seemingly insidious cycle of pain leading to poor sleep, leading to more pain and poorer sleep yet.
I have also been inspired to think about my own sleep hygiene during this read, which has admittedly always been relatively 'good,' but I definitely have a few things to work on myself! Somewhat comically, I have been spreading the gospel of the dangers of poor sleep hygiene to pretty much anyone and everyone that I know, so for that and my aforementioned reasons, thank you again for your research and devotion to the betterment of everyone's health."
"Dear Dr. Walker,
I am unsure whether this message will reach you, but I just finished reading Why We Sleep in its entirety, and I cannot recall another book ever having had such a striking effect on me.
I recently started my first job as a speech-language pathologist in a nursing home outside of the XX area, and the residents I treat are highly vocal about their often daily fatigue/pain and lack of sufficiently long and/or satisfying sleep during the night.
I often feel stuck in my treatment of cognitive-communication skills such as short-term memory, as I feel (with my newly bolstered knowledge of the relationship between sleep and memory) that this poor sleep hygiene, including the propagation of sleeping pills by the nursing staff, is preventing progress on this and other fronts, including occupational and physical therapy. Seriously, some residents will enter into multiple microsleeps during our 35-minute sessions.
While I am fresh in my field and brand-new to the skilled nursing setting, your and others' work has inspired me to look into this pervasive issue at my workplace to see what can be done to more effectively promote proper sleep hygiene. More than anything, I want to try to break this seemingly insidious cycle of pain leading to poor sleep, leading to more pain and poorer sleep yet.
I have also been inspired to think about my own sleep hygiene during this read, which has admittedly always been relatively 'good,' but I definitely have a few things to work on myself! Somewhat comically, I have been spreading the gospel of the dangers of poor sleep hygiene to pretty much anyone and everyone that I know, so for that and my aforementioned reasons, thank you again for your research and devotion to the betterment of everyone's health."