What does your sleep position say about you?

279,464 views ・ 2016-08-13

English with Ronnie


Please double-click on the English subtitles below to play the video.

00:02
Hello. Do you sleep? I sleep all the time.
0
2195
5430
00:07
It's my hobby. Is it my hobby? Yeah. Most people sleep 8, 7, 6, 5 to 12 hours a day or a night.
1
7650
12318
00:20
And when we sleep, most people
2
20272
2458
00:22
sleep in different positions. Some people, like me, we toss and turn. "Toss and turn"
3
22730
7932
00:30
means one position, another position, you go through all the positions and you sleep
4
30687
7188
00:37
well, I guess. Other people do not change positions when they sleep,
5
37900
5879
00:43
so they're kind of like they're frozen.
6
43865
2025
00:46
For me, my sleep position changes, so I can't really choose something about my personality,
7
46473
11203
00:57
but you maybe can choose or understand more about your personality by your sleeping position.
8
57701
10440
01:08
So, when you go to bed at night, do you sleep like a little baby, or do you sleep spread
9
68166
7384
01:15
out, or do sleep very stiffly? What we're going to go through is teach you some vocabulary-you
10
75550
6825
01:22
like new vocabulary-about your personality. Exciting. Let's go to it.
11
82400
6638
01:29
So: "Sleep Positions And Your Personality". The first one is the "fetal" position. The
12
89063
7797
01:36
fetal position means basically you sleep like a little baby. If you watch a baby sleep,
13
96860
6200
01:43
they're curled up. Their legs and their arms are close to their head. If you sleep like
14
103060
8419
01:51
this it means you have a tough exterior. Now, "a tough exterior" means that you don't really
15
111479
9381
02:00
show your emotions well. On the outside, you're like: "Everything's great", but on the inside-oh,
16
120860
8439
02:09
oh, oh-you are actually very shy and sensitive. Kind of like a baby. So, if you sleep like
17
129299
10881
02:20
a baby, you're just a big baby. Aren't ya? Your position would be a fetal position, and
18
140180
7119
02:27
it means you have a tough exterior, but your inside is soft and squishy.
19
147299
6170
02:33
The next one is a "log". Hmm. A "log" in English is a piece of a tree. It's a big piece of
20
153469
7440
02:40
a tree. So, if you picture a tree, trees don't move. The... The bottom of the tree. So, a
21
160909
6741
02:47
log position is you would be sleeping on your side, and you don't move ever, not even to
22
167650
7809
02:55
go to the bathroom. If you're a log sleeper, you are social, so you like to hang out with
23
175459
7230
03:02
people, you like to go to parties. Log party! Your room. And you're easy-going, but-oh,
24
182689
8916
03:11
guess what?-you're gullible. Do you know what "gullible" means? Do you? Okay. "Gullible"
25
191808
9941
03:21
means that you believe what people tell you all the time. So, for example, if I told you
26
201749
7610
03:29
that I really, really like raisins: I love raisins, I eat raisins every day - you'd be
27
209359
7380
03:36
like: "Oh, Ronnie likes raisins." No. I actually don't eat raisins every day. You're gullible
28
216739
6100
03:42
because you believe what people tell you. You don't question people. This is a bad thing.
29
222839
7091
03:49
Being gullible is not good. Okay? So, if someone tells you something, like me, check it out,
30
229930
6461
03:56
make sure you know that this person's not telling you fibs.
31
236416
4923
04:01
The next position is called "yearner". Yearner, yearner. So, this is how I sleep a lot. I
32
241339
8270
04:09
sleep with my one leg straight, and my other leg curled up, so it's kind of like a fetal
33
249609
7328
04:16
position, except the one leg is extended and the arms can be any way you want them. And
34
256962
6378
04:23
if you are a yearner, you have an open personality. I guess I have an open personality. So it
35
263340
7600
04:30
means that you like to talk to people, you like to show your emotions. But we got a problem
36
270940
11070
04:42
with this. You are suspicious of others. "Suspicious" means you do not trust people. Hey, that's
37
282010
14180
04:56
me to a tee. That means that... Yeah, this would definitely describe my personality.
38
296190
9120
05:05
I'm very suspicious of people. These two would actually be the opposite, so "gullible" and
39
305310
7230
05:12
"suspicious of others" are opposites. Which one are you? Are you gullible? Do you believe
40
312540
6370
05:18
me? Or are you doubting what I'm telling you right now? If you're doubting, you're suspicious.
41
318910
6870
05:25
The next one is a "soldier". So, if you think of a soldier lying in a bed without moving
42
325780
7610
05:33
unless he or she is told to move, this would be the soldier position. You would lie on
43
333390
5160
05:38
your back with your feet and your arms straight out. This person has quite short arms because
44
338550
6365
05:44
they're a soldier, and one of their arms is missing. Okay? So, be careful if you're a
45
344940
6554
05:51
soldier. Just like a soldier, you are disciplined. "Disciplined" means that you have a very,
46
351519
11201
06:02
very strict routine, and you do things as you are told to do, and you don't do things
47
362720
8520
06:11
strangely or you're not that crazy. Okay, definitely not me. But you have a problem,
48
371240
7760
06:19
you have a flaw, you have a bad thing - you set high expectations for others. Now, if
49
379000
9490
06:28
you set high expectations for others this means you expect other people to be reliable,
50
388490
12140
06:40
to be dependable, to help you to do what you do. So, for example, if you are very organized
51
400630
6930
06:47
and you are very dependable, you kind of want other people to be reliable and dependable
52
407560
7400
06:54
as well. Guess what? Not going to happen. So, one of your flaws is you expect people
53
414960
7570
07:02
to be good. Are people evil sometimes? So, not everyone's good, so lower your expectations
54
422530
9890
07:12
of others, soldiers.
55
432420
2199
07:14
And one of my favourites, really, just the name, is a "starfish". A starfish is a creature
56
434644
7866
07:22
that lives in the ocean. This is the person's hair, they have purple hair. Okay? So a starfish
57
442510
6790
07:29
is the person is lying face down, almost like they're dead. And for the starfish people
58
449300
7940
07:37
out there, hello, your friends are very important in your life. But-there's always a "but" with
59
457240
8960
07:46
these ones-you dislike being in the spotlight. So, "being in the spotlight", we have another
60
466200
8520
07:54
expression that I could say: "being the centre of attention". If you are the centre of attention
61
474720
8310
08:03
or in the spotlight, it means everyone's looking at you. Oh, that's me now. So, right now I
62
483030
7200
08:10
could say: "I'm in the spotlight", because everyone's looking at me. Oh, oh, hi, everyone.
63
490230
6668
08:18
Second to last one-Free Fallin', Tom Petty, hello-is kind of the opposite of starfish
64
498234
7296
08:25
because you're on your... You're lying on your back, not on your front, so you're not
65
505530
5160
08:30
going to suffocate. The "freefall" position means... Guess what? You are self-confident,
66
510690
7873
08:38
but you're also sensitive to criticism. So, "criticism" comes from the word "criticise".
67
518914
11480
08:50
If somebody criticises you, they tell you your bad points. Now, nobody likes to hear
68
530419
12460
09:02
their bad points. You don't want me to tell you that you have bad breath or you smell
69
542879
5180
09:08
bad, or: "You're pretty obnoxious when you're drunk." If somebody criticizes you, you get
70
548059
8481
09:16
really upset, you starfish people, probably because you're so damn self-confident. So,
71
556540
7940
09:24
be careful about that one. If you are in the spotlight or in the centre of attention, you
72
564480
12799
09:37
probably like it, but some people don't. So be careful.
73
577279
5347
09:43
And the last one, probably the best one yet is called the "back snorer". Now, as you can
74
583165
8614
09:51
tell, there's something special about these back snorer people. "Snore" is the noise that
75
591779
6670
09:58
you make-[snores]-or some people make when they sleep. Do you snore? You don't know?
76
598449
9281
10:07
Ask. Ask someone. Ask your friend. A lot of people snore when they're on their back. It
77
607730
6510
10:14
has something to do with the airflow or circulation. Or a lot of people who drink... Not milk.
78
614240
7310
10:21
A lot of people who drink alcohol or are drunk, they tend to snore more. So, it can get really
79
621550
7420
10:28
annoying, actually, if your partner snores. Mm-hmm. Pillow over the head works. No, no,
80
628970
7119
10:36
don't do that. Death. But back snorers, hey, you guys got it... The bad, bad thing here.
81
636089
7550
10:43
You guys are really irritable. Now, "irritable" means like you're moody. For example, you
82
643639
8430
10:52
are angry or not in a good mood a lot. It's like people waking up in the morning and never
83
652069
10390
11:02
getting the morning coffee. You could say that people are bitchy if they're irritable.
84
662459
6338
11:09
However, back snorers, you have a good, really, really fantastic bonus to your personality.
85
669047
9301
11:18
You are fashionable. Do you know what "fashionable" means? Fashion? "Fashionable" means you have
86
678373
12037
11:30
a really, really good fashion sense. Check out this guy's pajamas, those are fantastic.
87
690410
7621
11:38
He has a hat and a feather in his hat. Now, he sleeps on his back, so that's cool. When
88
698056
6104
11:44
he snores, the feather moves. [Snores]. It's like a cartoon.
89
704160
3609
11:48
He's got some fly pajamas going on, there.
90
708370
1917
11:50
So, what I want you to do is I want you to think about how you sleep. What position do
91
710312
6617
11:56
you sleep in? As I told you before, I do this, this, this. I do all of them together. I'm
92
716929
6981
12:03
kind of all these personalities in one, but what are you? And do you agree with this?
93
723910
8330
12:12
I'm predominantly a yearner, and yes, I am. I have an open personality, and boy, am I
94
732240
8079
12:20
suspicious of you right now.
95
740319
2137
12:22
Until next time, see ya later.
96
742583
2633
About this website

This site will introduce you to YouTube videos that are useful for learning English. You will see English lessons taught by top-notch teachers from around the world. Double-click on the English subtitles displayed on each video page to play the video from there. The subtitles scroll in sync with the video playback. If you have any comments or requests, please contact us using this contact form.

https://forms.gle/WvT1wiN1qDtmnspy7