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What's up everyone?
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What's up everyone?
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Chào kābāt vā chào mūng kābāt kwa i chào lāk vui.
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Podcast Slow and Clear gul What's Up English.
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In this video, in this podcast, we are going to talk about sleep.
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And the reason why I decided to talk about sleep today
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is because I just did a long trip for about seven days.
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And on that trip, I slept in a few different homestays with my friends.
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And on a few of those nights, I didn't sleep very well.
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And because of that, I got a cold.
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And that's why right now when you can hear my voice,
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it probably sounds like my nose is a bit stuffed.
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And that's because I have a cold right now.
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It's like a flu, but not as bad as the flu.
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I don't think it's COVID.
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But right now I just have a stuffy nose and I cough sometimes.
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and I just feel a bit tired.
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So hopefully in the next day or two it will start to get better and I will feel back to normal.
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But for now we are going to talk about sleep because sleep is so important.
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Every time I don't get a good sleep, well not every time but many times,
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Very often when I don't sleep well and I wake up the next day, I feel like I'm getting sick.
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If I only sleep maybe three or four hours and then I wake up the next day,
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sometimes I feel like, oh, I need to sneeze or there's just something not right.
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And so I try to make getting a good sleep a high priority.
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But obviously, it's easier said than done.
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Okay, let's get back to the podcast.
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And on this trip with my friends, like I said, there were a few nights that I didn't get a very good sleep.
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And the first night was because I was in a room with my friend.
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We had two beds next to each other.
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And he's the type of person that falls asleep in literally like 20 seconds.
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20 seconds, he falls asleep and he is snoring.
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Snoring is when you're like, like he does that within 20 seconds of lying down.
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and I'm a bit jealous to be honest.
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So what happened was we went to bed
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and as usual we were both you know looking at our phones in bed before we sleep
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and as I'm looking at my phone I hear him breathing like snoring
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so I look over to him
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but he's still lying in the bed with his phone like this
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and i thought oh so he's just breathing loudly
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but he's probably still awake but then when i looked closer i saw
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that he was actually asleep with his phone in his hand the screen still on on whatever he was watching
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and he was just like in that position and i'm like wow
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that is truly amazing i so wish i could do that
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so anyway i think he realized and he put his phone down uh
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and then he continued to sleep
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but as he continued to sleep his snoring got louder
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and louder and he started to move around like kicking around to the point where it would almost like
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scare me like surprise me because he would go from sleeping perfectly still I mean snoring
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but not moving and then all of a sudden he would be like like move around really fast
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and I'm like what are you doing he even kicked my bed at one point he kicked my bed
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and he was probably moving around so much because he was dreaming
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and usually when we dream our body actually like our brain stops our body from moving
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but maybe he was stressed out or he was thinking about some things
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and he didn't go into a deep sleep
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so it just made him like move around
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because all of the other nights on that trip he snored very loud but he didn't move around.
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Long story short I didn't get a very good sleep that night.
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I think I slept around three hours and opposite to him I'm not a good sleeper.
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I'm a very light sleeper which means it's very easy for me to wake up
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and it usually takes me a long time to fall asleep.
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Maybe some of you have this problem where you just can't fall asleep very quickly.
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Maybe you are overthinking or maybe you're relaxed but you close your eyes and your brain just doesn't shut down.
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Some people are like that.
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Some people fall asleep really fast.
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Some people take a long time.
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And just so you know, the word to describe the condition when you can't sleep is insomnia.
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For most people, this isn't a regular thing.
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Maybe some nights they can't sleep, but usually they can.
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So anyway, to recap some of the words I just talked about in that part of the podcast,
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there's insomnia, which is the condition when you cannot sleep.
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For example, you could say, I had insomnia last night.
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But another way you could say it is just, I couldn't sleep last night.
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I couldn't sleep.
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Another word is to be a light sleeper, meaning you wake up very easily or you are a deep sleeper.
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And a deep sleeper is the opposite.
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Someone who they sleep like a log or they sleep like the dead, right?
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When they are asleep, it's very hard to wake them up.
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And pretty much nothing will wake them up.
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And that's why many people who are deep sleepers,
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they have to set like five or six alarms just to wake up when they want to wake up.
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Meanwhile, for me, I just set one alarm and it wakes me up immediately.
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But then sometimes I sleep it and then I go back to sleep and that's when it can be dangerous.
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But anyway, another word we said was dream.
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So for example, you can have a good dream or have a bad dream.
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A really bad dream, we call it a nightmare.
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It can also be a verb.
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For example, I was dreaming about something or in the past I dreamt about something.
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For example, I had a dream I won the lottery or I dreamt that I won the lottery.
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All right, let's move on to the next part where these are some tips that might help you to sleep.
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And they're not going to be the super common ones like,
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oh, don't drink coffee at nighttime or don't use your phone before bed because pretty much everyone knows those rules.
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But you could often still have trouble falling asleep.
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From the many books that I've read about sleep and the people I've talked to and my own experience,
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in my opinion, the biggest thing for sleep is stress.
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For example, if you can't sleep and you don't know why,
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then it's likely because you have something that is stressing you out.
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And sometimes it's not obvious.
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Like sometimes we think about it and think, no, I'm not too stressed out.
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There's nothing bothering me too much.
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But sometimes you really have to go deeper,
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like think really deeply in your head if there's something stressing you out.
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And in my experience, often it was something that I didn't want to admit was stressing me out.
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I can't give any specific examples,
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but it would often be something that is a problem in my life that is difficult to solve.
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And so I would just try not to think about it.
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But then when I would go to sleep, that problem would be like in the back of my head
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and I would end up tossing and turning
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or just looking at my phone to try to distract myself and end up not getting a very good sleep.
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And by that, I mean a terrible sleep, maybe just a few hours or sometimes no sleep at all.
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So for me, the number one thing for getting good sleep is managing your stress.
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One way I would take care of that is a few hours before I go to bed,
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I write out all the things I'm going to do the next day specifically.
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And if I do that a few hours before bed, not right before bed, but a few hours before,
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and then you tell your brain like, it's okay, we have planned for the next day.
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You can relax now.
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And then when you go to bed, you're a lot less likely to overthink.
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Another thing that is really important for sleep, and this you probably already know,
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is going to bed at the same time each night.
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Because sometimes what happens is if you always go to bed at 12
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or 1 or 11 for example and then you skip
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that time then sometimes you won't feel tired anymore and it will be hard to go to sleep.
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Okay the third thing for getting a good sleep is making sure your room is not too hot.
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If your room is too hot, then that can stop you from sleeping.
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When we sleep, our body temperature naturally lowers.
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And when you look at the body temperature of a normal human being throughout the day,
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you'll see that in the morning it goes up.
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and then after the afternoon it starts going down and it reaches the lowest point at around 3 or 4 a.m.
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So if your room is too hot then it will be difficult for your body to get to
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that low temperature and that's what we naturally need and that's why sometimes when it's a nice cold evening,
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it's easy to sleep.
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It's because that is how your body temperature normally goes up and down, which makes sense, right?
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During the day, the sun is out and it's hotter.
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And then during the night, it's cooler and your body does the same thing.
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So the fourth and the last thing I'll mention.
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And these are all things that have helped me.
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So I'm sharing them, hoping that if you have trouble sleeping, you could try it out as well.
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The fourth thing is to not go to bed hungry.
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Many people say if you eat food before you go to bed, then you won't sleep well.
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But apparently, According to many studies and also my own experience,
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if you just eat something light before you go to bed, if you're hungry, only if you're hungry, then it will help you sleep.
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Because personally, if I'm hungry, it feels impossible to sleep.
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So usually I will make a bowl of oatmeal, just a small bowl with some water, maybe a little bit of sugar,
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like honey, and then I will eat that.
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And usually then I can fall asleep because it's not too much food.
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So yeah, guys, I don't want to make this podcast too long, so I'm going to leave it at that.
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you can let me know in the comments if you have trouble sleeping or if you sleep really well.
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And let me know what helps you sleep.
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Do you have a routine before you go to sleep?
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Just let me know in the comments below.
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I am actually curious to hear what you guys do and what helps you.
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So anyway, thank you so much for listening to this podcast.
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and I will see you very soon.
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Goodbye.
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