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Vocabulary: sleeping and dreaming

We have already dealt with SLEEP in test, but since it is an essential activity, I've fancied going further and dealing with another activity which is as essential and often more pleasant : DREAMING.

Dealing with "the sleep of Death", Shakespeare had Hamlet say:" ... to sleep; to sleep: perchance to dream..."

Yet, even our daily sleep leads to dreaming, and while we're awake, our mind is also capable of building an ideal scenario for us, leading to action. Let's listen to our Dreams and to other people's ... and we may even be able to fulfil them!

Terrible insomnia

To sleep	To sleep in
To have a lie-in	To stay in bed
To have a rest To take a rest To rest up	Wakeful
Wide-awake	Insomnia
To have insomnia/ To suffer from imsomnia	Insomniac

- It keeps me awake!

- I've had a sleepless night!

- He didn't sleep a wink! / He didn't get a wink of sleep!

... go to bed! Nicely tucked in...

To feel/ be sleepy	sleepily/ drowsily
Sleepiness/ drowsiness	torpor
It's bedtime	at bedtime
To be in bed	to go to bed
To put sb to bed	to tuck sb in
To fall asleep/ go to sleep	to get to sleep
To drop off	to put sb to sleep
To go back to sleep	To be asleep/ fast asleep/ sound asleep

- To be asleep on one's feet!

- I can't keep my eyes open!

- To be ready to drop

- To go beddy-byes

- Sleep well!

- The sandman has been here!

Fast asleep... SOooooo tired...

To be half asleep	I overslept
A deep sleep	To sleep soundly
A doze/ a nap	To doze off
To have a doze/ a snooze/ forty winks	To sleepwalk

- To sleep through one's alarm

- To sleep round the clock!

- To sleep like a log!

... and what about DREAMING????

A dream/ to dream about	A nightmare
Nightmarish	His dream car
A daydream	To daydream
A waking dream	A hallucination
To have visions/ to see things	To hypnotize sb
A trance	To go into a trance
A dream world	To dream away

- It came to him in his dreams!/ to see something in one's dreams

- Pleasant dreams! / Sweet dreams!

- My dream came true! (A wish or a goal that a person has wanted or achieved after a long time.)

- Early morning dreams come true: the superstitious notion that dreams one has in the very early hours before one wakes up are fated to happen in real life.

- Broken dreams: Dreams or aspirations that have failed or been abandoned.

- In your dreams! A derisive phrase said in response to something that is far-fetched or unlikely to happen.

- A pipe dream: A dream or idea that is impossible to accomplish.

- A dream in colour: To have bold, often unrealistic, ambitions.

- Beyond (one's) wildest dreams: unimaginable: much better than you expected.

- A dreamboat: a very attractive or appealing person.

- The sky is the limit!: nothing is impossible)

I'd like to close this lesson on this positive expression and send you face the test with confidence.

The sky is the limit! and the sky is unlimited... Go for it, then... and thanks for working with me.

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1. 'Lucy! Your is long past... Go to bed now.'

2. After the long journey home, it’s time you , at last.

3. If I watch this horror film before going to bed, I’m sure I won’t .

4. He was so tired that he and missed his plane! Too bad!

5. He’s had so many in his home country, that I don’t want to give him false hopes about what he can really hope for here.

6. He has at least achieved his goals and ; life is much sweeter to him now.

7. 'If you don’t want to have a , you shouldn't read this thriller.It's really gory and frightening.'

8. At the moment, that is still only , but it’s something we must keep in mind for children’s benefit.

9. The presents I was given were and I thanked everyone for them.

10. Sandra was caught in a when the phone suddenly called her back to reality.

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