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The Joe Rogan Experience

#1109 - Matthew Walker

The Joe Rogan Experience

Joe Rogan

Comedy

4.6228.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2018

⏱️ 116 minutes

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Matthew Walker is Professor of Neuroscience and Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, and Founder and Director of the Center for Human Sleep Science. Check out his book "Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams" on Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/dp/1501144316 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

And we're live. What's going on? Did you sleep well last night? I did. I didn't sleep too badly. I I mean hotels are a tough thing and we actually know the science that

0:17.5

One half of your brain will actually not sleep as deeply than the other when you're sleeping in an unusual room like a hotel room.

0:25.6

Really? That's what fucks me up.

0:27.6

Because what I'm on the road, you know, I'll do three different hotels in a week because I'll do like a Thursday Friday Saturday like with gigs and then by the time Sunday rolls around I'm a mess in rough shape. Yeah, is that what it is? Yeah, and it's a you mean it's a threat detection thing.

0:43.0

I mean, if you look at other species, they can do this much more impressively than we can.

0:48.0

So dolphins or any sort of seed-dwelling mammal can actually sleep with half a brain. So one half of their

0:57.0

brain goes into deep sleep. The other half is wide awake.

1:00.3

That's how people the DMV do it. Those people that work at the Department of Motor Vehicles, they work half asleep.

1:08.0

You ever meet him?

1:09.0

I haven't, no.

1:10.0

Just teasing you.

1:11.0

If your DMV listening going,

1:12.0

fuck you man, next time you're coming to get your license renewed.

1:15.0

There's my next NIH grant I think looking at the DMV and sleep.

1:18.5

But yeah, TSA workers same thing same type of human.

1:22.0

That I've come across.

1:23.0

Yeah.

1:24.0

Them too. I'm just kidding, fuckers.

1:25.4

Relax.

1:27.1

So when you're in a hotel room, what is happening

1:30.9

that half your brain is not really sleeping.

1:34.0

Yeah so there's different stages of sleep there are two principal types.

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