Sleep

Author: [French] Michel Biard Translated by Chen Yue
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: When you can't be awake, you sleep. When you struggle with insomnia, when your memory noticeably declines, when work and study feel exhausting, and when your health shows red flags, open up Sleep to unlock the secrets of sleep. Treat yourself well, get eight hours of sleep, and everything will amaze you. For us, nothing is as familiar and peculiar as sleep. Everyone knows that one must sleep at night and wake up in the morning, otherwise, a person will quickly collapse. But this is clearly superficial. We are often puzzled by the different effects of synchronous and asynchronous sleep, individual sleep disorders, and more. This is why there are so many prejudices about sleep, some of which are reasonable, some are not, and some are completely wrong. These prejudices are first examined through phenomenology, then through physiology. Additionally, according to these prejudices, many questions about sleep remain unexplained: such as the interesting sleep phenomena in some animals, whether the regulation of sleep is limited to the three common states of wakefulness, half-sleep, and deep sleep, and how to understand the disorders of sleep and awakening. We hope readers can find the answers to their questions in this book and receive affirmative responses. However, we have just begun to glimpse this unknown world that occupies one-third of our lives.