Transcriber: Tanya Cushman Reviewer: Rhonda Jacobs
Thanks, you guys,
for having me here at the talk today.
So I'm here to talk to you a little bit
about what we all do or we try to do every night,
and that's sleep.
So if you look up at the screen, I'm going to ask everybody a question,
and what I want you to do
is just raise your hand and snap your fingers if it's a yes.
So, everybody, did you guys all brush your teeth this morning?
(Snaps)
I love you guys.
(Laughter)
So I don't need to worry about anybody sitting next to somebody,
because I could bring you up on stage - I got a seat over here.
So how many people in this audience have a cellphone?
(Snaps)
And how many people in this audience's cellphone
was fully charged this morning?
You wake up, your phone is fully charged?
(Snaps)
Ha, man, you're an easy audience.
Okay.
How many people's cellphone in the audience right now
is fully charged?
(A few snaps)
Someone doesn't talk a lot, right?
(Laughter)
Okay.
And how many people charge their phone throughout the day
with a battery charger, a car charger - whatever it is you're doing?
(Snaps)
Cool.
So how many people wake up,
jump out of bed in the morning,
spring in front of that mirror, and you're fully charged?
How many people?
(A few snaps)
(Laughter)
I forgot, we're on a college campus.
(Laughter)
How many people get out of bed in the morning,
they get in front of that mirror?
75%.
Give me a 75% snap.
(Snaps)
Not a lot, right?
How many people (Stomping sounds) get out of bed
not quite sure where that mirror is in the morning?
(Laughter)
(Snaps)
Look in front - "Yeah, I got a 50% charge going today."
(Snaps)
It was for me today.
So how many people
charge themselves up throughout the day
with a charger of some sort?
Red Bull, Mountain Dew, Pepsi, lunch?
(Snaps)
Right? (Repeated snapping)
(Laughter)
Okay, you need to sit up here with me.
Okay.
How many people wish they could charge themselves up
with a different kind of charger throughout the day?
(Snaps)
Right?
And mind you, my sleep is good.
My wife's, not so good.
So that makes mine not so good when I sleep with my wife.
(Laughter)
We won't go there.
(Laughter)
Okay.
So the stages of sleep -
you've got a couple different areas of sleep, right?
So you've gotten your non-REM sleep.
I call that a transition sleep.
So it's when your head hits the pillow and you fall asleep.
Disengaged sleep.
It's when you become disengaged with me pretty soon.
Right?
It's when you start just excluding the environment,
you're going to disengage.
Disengaged sleep also has something called "sleep spindles" in it.
And sleep spindles are just like these.
They're like earplugs.
So it's your body's ability to make earplugs -
put them in when you're asleep - those are called sleep spindles.
They happen a lot in disengaged sleep.
Delta sleep - this is the premier sleep.
So when you guys swim a race, or you guys run a -
you guys want to be on the gold medal platform, right?
We want to step up and we want to stand up there on that platform.
When we sleep, we want to be in delta sleep.
This is the restorative, recharging sleep,
that when you wake up with 50%, you didn't get enough of, right?
So that delta sleep is the ideal sleep that we don't get enough of.
And then you go to REM sleep.
And REM sleep is your dream center.
So it's where you think of all those creative ideas.
It's where your brain is active, it's going -
your dream center sleep, right?
So does everybody know who this guy is up on the stage with me?
(A few snaps)
(Laughter)
The 50% crowd, right?
Okay.
Abraham Lincoln.
Abraham Lincoln - what year was he born?
What year was he in office?
1865, right?
So in 1865,
the first inner-coiled spring mattress was invented, right?
The first mattress was patented and invented - 1865.
A few years later,
Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone, right?
So we got the bed and the phone about the same time.
If we move it forward about 150 years, plus or minus a little bit,
we're still sleeping on an inner-coiled spring mattress
and we're still talking on a telephone, right?
But if Alexander Graham Bell came into your house tonight,
and he looked in your bedroom,
do you think he would know what to do with the bed?
But if you showed him your phone and the technology advances we've made,
(Laughter)
he'd be dumbfounded, right?
So I'm on a college campus,
and you guys have a lot of stuff going on in your lives, right?
Dorm room noise, extracurricular activities.
You got schoolwork.
You might have a job.
And you've got a roommate, like me,
that doesn't allow me to sleep as well as I should, right?
(Laughter)
Look at this statistic, right?
Larks - early to rise, early to bed.
3.05 GPA.
Night owls - 2.65.
So I can make you guys all [0.4] more students, right?
Sleep is that critical.
And the only thing that differentiates these two groups is sleep.
Quality sleep equals student success.
Let me rephrase that a little bit differently.
Quality sleep is life success.
Right? Do we all agree on that?
(Snaps)
So 75% of our state doesn't sleep well two to three nights a week.
75% of us.
And I think we kind of heard that with the clicks throughout the room.
So 10 million people in the state of Michigan,
70 million Americans -
chronic sleep problems.
70 million!
This is a quarter of our population.
70 million people don't sleep well.
There was a study done
at the University of Geneva in Switzerland,
and what this study did was it took a bed,
a stationary bed like you guys have,
the inner-coiled spring mattress bed,
and it rocked people to sleep, right?
And what this study found out -
your transitional sleep,
that time you put your head on the pillow to the time you fall asleep,
you fall asleep almost 40% faster.
40% faster, right?
Your disengaged sleep?
It's almost 40% longer.
So you are disengaged with the activities of life outside of your own head
while rocking.
The really cool thing about this is not only were you disengaged,
the sleep spindles I talked about increased almost 100%.
You had 100% more ability to block out sound,
block out exterior noise,
block out my wife.
(Laughter)
Guess what I'm buying ... by doing that.
But that delta sleep, that premier deep sleep,
that restorative sleep,
that sleep when you plug your phone into the wall,
almost 200% more, right?
So that is telling me
that I don't need to sleep as much at night
if I get 200% more delta sleep,
or I'm just charged at 120% when I wake up in the morning
versus the 50 or 75%.
This is just by rocking, right?
Are you kidding me?
Sleep.
I mean, it's what we all do.
We all don't do it very well.
You guys could just shut your eyes, rock back and forth -
can you guys dim the lights in here a little bit?
No, okay.
And just picture yourself -
so shut your eyes, just shut your eyes and just see what rocking does to it.
So follow along with me, back and forth, just rock.
Then open your eyes and just picture yourself on that beach
with my wife rocking you because she doesn't sleep.
(Laughter)
Sleep has so many critical components to it;
it's in everyday life.
We spend about $100 billion annually on sleep-related products.
Not sleep-related products, sleep-related problems.
Medical leave, time off.
Everything revolves around sleep.
You know, 100,000 people crash their cars each year
because they don't have enough sleep.
71,000 injuries reported from those,
1,500 deaths -
we just had one downstate a little bit -
for lack of sleep.
Critical thinking, lack of sleep.
It affects us all.
So when you guys go home tonight
and you get in your innerspring coiled mattresses,
which most of us sleep in,
I want you to think of Abe Lincoln,
then I want you to think of this screen
and my wife rocking you to sleep.
(Laughter)
My time is up. Thank you, you guys.
I appreciate everything.
(Applause)