In Why We Sleep, Matthew Walker talks about the REM-sleep-disrupting consequences of alcohol. He explains how the quality of your sleep is worsened when you drink. First, he says, alcohol fragments sleep, which will keep you from having a healthy amount of hours of continuous sleep. Second, he says, REM sleep is often suppressed if there’s alcohol in your body. So, you’ll dream less, which is not (and cannot be) a good thing… He also says that, when it comes to sleep and alcohol consumption, abstinence is the best advice he can offer.

And that’s sad news for all of us, isn’t it?

But he does (jokingly) say something interesting right before he concludes the part about alcohol, and I will quote it here:

“The politically incorrect advice I would (of course never) give is this: go to the pub for a drink in the morning. That way, the alcohol will be out of your system before sleep.”

And that’s a little good news, isn’t it?

Breakfast beer, anyone?