Nodding Off: The Science of Sleep from Cradle to Grave
Alice Gregory’s book explains the purpose, psychology and physiology of sleep at different stages of life
I still find it incredible that we spend a third of our lives asleep. It feels like it should be a made-up statistic, like the oft-quoted myth that we ‘only use 10% of our brains’. I also find it equally amazing how, despite it being such a weird and essential part of our lives, most of us know very little about sleep. It’s something for me that was made stark by the innocuous but impossible to answer question ‘What is sleep?’ in the first chapter of Alice Gregory’s Nodding Off.