NCERT Solutions for Class 6 English
The Wonder Called Sleep NCERT Solutions for Class 6 A Pact with the Sun Chapter 7
The Wonder Called Sleep NCERT Text Book Questions and Answers
Question 1.
What is the most obvious advantage of sleep?
Answer:
The most obvious advantage of sleep is that it helps our body recover from the fatigue caused by the activities of the day. It helps us to get ready to face the next day’s activities.
Question 2.
What happens to our body when we sleep?
Answer:
Several things happen to our body while we are sleeping. As we sink deeper into sleep, our muscles relax more and more. Our heartbeat becomes slower. Our temperature and blood pressure also reduces considerably. The ever-active brain also slows down so that we can’t think or act consciously.
Question 3.
Define a dream in your own words.
Answer:
A dream is a series of thoughts, images and sensations that we see, feel and sense when we are asleep.
Question 4.
Why are dreams important? Mention two reasons.
Answer:
Dreams are important firstly because they help us sleep through noise and other disturbances. Secondly, scientists have deduced that dreams have powerful messages for us. They reveal our deepest fears, insecurities and motivations. If understood correctly, they can help us find solutions to problems that are bothering us.
Question 5.
Why has sleep been called a wonder?
Answer:
Sleep has been called a wonder because it has a strange power over us. We have no idea about when and how we drift off to sleep, and one cannot even go without sleeping for a long time. It gives our body the required rest. It is like an unknown state that nobody has been able to fathom the depths of.
Question 6.
Describe briefly to the class an improbable dream you have ever had.
(Encourage the students to describe an improbable dream they have had.)
Answer:
Once I dreamt that I had turned into a potato, and was lying on a plate with boiled peas and other boiled vegetables. A party was going on, and all my family was sitting around the dinner table talking to each other. I was shouting from where I was, but nobody seemed to be able to hear me. I could hardly move.
All of a sudden, someone picked up the plate where I was kept and I rolled down into my mother’s plate. I could see the tines of the fork coming at me, while I was shouting the entire time. I woke up suddenly with beads of sweat rolling down my forehead. What a nightmare that was!
Extra question – Grandmothers and mothers sing nice little songs while rocking little ones to sleep. Such a song is called a ‘lullaby ’. Do you remember a lullaby in your own language? Tell the class in English what the lullaby says.
(Encourage the students to share or sing a lullaby in the class.)
Answer:
My grandmother and mother used to tap my head in a rhythmic motion, and sung me lullabies to make me go to sleep. They were almost always in Hindi. A lullaby is a quiet and gentle song sung to send a child to sleep.