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From the Ted Talk by Matt Walker: Sleep is your superpower

Unscramble the Blue Letters

MW: So if you are syntiag in bed awake for too long, you should get out of bed and go to a different room and do something different. The reason is because your brain will very quickly associate your bedroom with the place of wnesefuakls, and you need to break that association. So only return to bed when you are sleepy, and that way you will reelarn the association that you once had, which is your bed is the pclae of sleep. So the analogy would be, you'd never sit at the dinner table, waiting to get hungry, so why would you lie in bed, waiting to get selepy?

Open Cloze

MW: So if you are _______ in bed awake for too long, you should get out of bed and go to a different room and do something different. The reason is because your brain will very quickly associate your bedroom with the place of ___________, and you need to break that association. So only return to bed when you are sleepy, and that way you will _______ the association that you once had, which is your bed is the _____ of sleep. So the analogy would be, you'd never sit at the dinner table, waiting to get hungry, so why would you lie in bed, waiting to get ______?

Solution

  1. sleepy
  2. wakefulness
  3. place
  4. staying
  5. relearn

Original Text

MW: So if you are staying in bed awake for too long, you should get out of bed and go to a different room and do something different. The reason is because your brain will very quickly associate your bedroom with the place of wakefulness, and you need to break that association. So only return to bed when you are sleepy, and that way you will relearn the association that you once had, which is your bed is the place of sleep. So the analogy would be, you'd never sit at the dinner table, waiting to get hungry, so why would you lie in bed, waiting to get sleepy?

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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collocation frequency
sleep loss 5
sleep deprivation 4
natural killer 3
full night 2
heart attacks 2
immune system 2
cell activity 2
short sleep 2
shift work 2

Important Words

  1. analogy
  2. associate
  3. association
  4. awake
  5. bed
  6. bedroom
  7. brain
  8. break
  9. dinner
  10. hungry
  11. lie
  12. long
  13. place
  14. quickly
  15. reason
  16. relearn
  17. return
  18. room
  19. sit
  20. sleep
  21. sleepy
  22. staying
  23. table
  24. waiting
  25. wakefulness