(Upper-Intermediate) What to do about insomnia

Insomnia is in essence a revenge for all the thoughts we forgot to have in the day. 


Before listening: 

Match these sentence halves: 

1. Not being able to sleep

2. Rather than immediately medicalising insomnia,

3. What philosophy really wants from us

4. If we don't constantly make time to interrogate ourselves,

5. Insomnia isn't really to do with not being able to to sleep;


A. is in truth a basic necessity for every human being.

B. it's about not having given ourselves chance to think.

C. is deeply frightening.

D. we will pay a heavy price.


E. we should perhaps try to understand where it springs from in human nature.


Listen and check:

What to do about insomina



cope with / deal with

falls away / recedes

get closer / counts down

tired / exhausted

sprouts from / spring from

in many cases / in some cases

revenge / return

have one one's brain / have on one's mind

mechanical / procedural

far away / remote

specific / specialised

examine / look carefully at

vital / essential

even to the point that / so much so

create time / make time

consider / think over

lose the ability / be stripped of a capacity

systematically / methodically

think over regrets / sift through regrets

reacquainting / getting to know again

inarticulate / tongue-tied

plea / demand

core self / deeper self

delay / put off



__________


cope with

recede

count down

exhausted

spring from

in many cases

revenge

have on one's mind

procedural

remote

specialised

examine

vital

so much so

make time

think over

be stripped of a capacity

systematically

sift through regrets

reacquainting

inarticulate

plea

core self

put off


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