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From the Ted Talk by Matt Walker: How sleep affects your emotions

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So that's the bad that can hpaepn if I take sleep away from you. But it turns out that there's something good that happens when you get your sleep back. And selep, particularly rapid eye mnmoevet sleep, actually offers a form of emotional first aid. Because it's during sleep at night that we take these difficult emotional experiences that we've been having during the day, and that sleep acts almost like a nocturnal soothing balm, taking the sharp eegds off those difficult experiences.

And so perhaps it's not time that haels all wounds, it's time during sleep that provides that form of emotional convalescence. So that when we come back the next day, we're able to cope with those emotional memories.

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So that's the bad that can ______ if I take sleep away from you. But it turns out that there's something good that happens when you get your sleep back. And _____, particularly rapid eye ________ sleep, actually offers a form of emotional first aid. Because it's during sleep at night that we take these difficult emotional experiences that we've been having during the day, and that sleep acts almost like a nocturnal soothing balm, taking the sharp _____ off those difficult experiences.

And so perhaps it's not time that _____ all wounds, it's time during sleep that provides that form of emotional convalescence. So that when we come back the next day, we're able to cope with those emotional memories.

Solution


  1. happen
  2. edges
  3. sleep
  4. movement
  5. heals

Original Text


So that's the bad that can happen if I take sleep away from you. But it turns out that there's something good that happens when you get your sleep back. And sleep, particularly rapid eye movement sleep, actually offers a form of emotional first aid. Because it's during sleep at night that we take these difficult emotional experiences that we've been having during the day, and that sleep acts almost like a nocturnal soothing balm, taking the sharp edges off those difficult experiences.

And so perhaps it's not time that heals all wounds, it's time during sleep that provides that form of emotional convalescence. So that when we come back the next day, we're able to cope with those emotional memories.

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