ניוזלטר אנגלית #11 – שינה וחלומות באנגלית

מאת אישמעאל בן-ישראל, מורה לאנגלית בלינגולרן

In this month’s edition we’ll talk about sleep and dreams.

The Importance of Sleep

Did you know that a very important part of our mental and physical development takes place at night, while we are asleep? While you sleep, your body is preparing itself for the next day’s challenges.

The laptop I’m using right now to write this newsletter can’t keep working endlessly. Sooner or later, I’ll have to plug it into an electricity source to recharge its battery. In fact, it also can’t keep working indefinitely without actually being turned off or restarted. The restart process allows the computer to store and categorize information and to update programs. 

Our bodies work in a similar way. The body can’t stay awake endlessly. It can’t keep working indefinitely, without sufficient “down time”. It too has to be “recharged” in order to survive. At night, the brain processes information gathered during the day and stores that information in your memory, to be used whenever you may need it.

The Sleep Cycle

An average person’s sleep is divided into 4 cycles. Each cycle has 4 different stages:

According to scientific research, adults should get approximately 8 hours of sleep every night. Sleeping less than this can have a negative effect on your physical health and cognitive abilities, such as memory and problem solving.

FYI (For Your Information)

The R.E.M. (Rapid Eye Movement) stage of sleep is the stage in which we dream dreams that we remember in the morning (we usually don’t consciously remember dreams that we dream in the other stages). The reason we remember these dreams more often than other dreams, is that REM dreams actually take place when we are in a very light sleep, even almost awake.

FYI 2

R.E.M. is the name of a very famous American rock band formed in 1980.

Two of their songs that you may be familiar with are:

“Losing My Religion” –

“The One I Love” –

That’s it for now! 

Thanks for taking the time to read this Newsletter. We hope you found it useful and interesting.

See you next time!

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