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Deep sleep as far as I remember (from Mathew Walkers book). REM is more for dreams and sorting out emotions.


You should probably check out "Matthew Walker's "Why We Sleep" Is Riddled with Scientific and Factual Errors": https://guzey.com/books/why-we-sleep/


If you're going to reference the criticism you should really include Walker's response as well:

https://sleepdiplomat.wordpress.com/2019/12/19/why-we-sleep-...


There's no connection between Walker and the post you linked. It's not clear why you believe it was written by Walker.


Well, the introductory section implies that the author (a) knows Walker's aim in his book, (b) receives direct emails about the book, (c) "very much appreciates" learning about errors in the book, and (d) knows what is planned in future editions of the book. The author's name is "sleepdiplomat"—it's odd that he doesn't explicitly give his name—but it turns out that (1) sleepdiplomat.com claims to be Matthew Walker's web site, and (2) @sleepdiplomat appears to be Walker's Twitter handle. Either someone has faked up an entire online presence for Walker, or the Wordpress post is indeed Walker himself.

For those watching, there's also discussion of Walker's (alleged) response at Gelman's blog: https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2019/12/26/whassup-wi...




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