Understanding Dreams
解夢
We dream for four hours every night, but may just be able to remember one dream every few days.
每晚,我們有四個小時的時間是在做夢,但是每隔幾天我們能記住其中的一個夢。
It is every person's secret life—and one we typically want to know more about.
它是每個人秘密生活的一部分,對此我們通常想知道更多信息。
We want to tap into those nighttime fantasies that have us flying, saving the world and dating movie stars.
我們在夜夢中幻想自己飛翔,拯救世界以及和電影明星約會。
And we'd like to both learn from and escape our nightmare—being chased by wild animals, falling off a cliff or sitting down to an exam we never studied for.
我們也會做讓我們想要逃離的噩夢——被野生動物追逐,從懸崖上墜落或者考一場我們完全不會解答的測試。
Dream researchers find that pain is rarely experienced in dreams.
研究人員發現,夢中很少能體驗到疼痛。
And we do dream in color. But because it's so hard to remember dreams most people forget that fact.
我們會做彩色的夢。但是因為夢很難記住,所以大多數人會忘記夢的內容。
70 to 80 percent of a dream's content comes from the previous day, though the elderly often dream of events from their teens and twenties.
70%到80%的夢的內容來源于前一天的生活,盡管老年人常會夢見自己十幾歲和二十幾歲的事情。
Women dream of males and females, and their dreams are often focused on relationships.
女性會做和兩性相關的夢,主要集中在人際關系這個方面。
Men's dreams focus more on males, success and failure.
男人做更多和男性、成功和失敗有關的夢。
Today's dream experts agree with Sigmund Freud, who believed that dreams were the subconscious way of communicating with us and that getting to know our dreams was a way to learn about ourselves.
今天的解夢專家贊成西格蒙德·弗洛伊德的理論,認為夢是一種潛意識和我們交流的方式,了解我們的夢是更好認識自己的一種辦法。
For instance, having nightmares means you are psychologically disturbed, suffering from stress, anxiety or depression.
比如,做惡夢意味著你的心理受到打擾,忍受壓力、焦慮或者抑郁之苦。
Nightmares can be stopped. One way to do this is by dealing with the problem.
噩夢是可以停止的。一種辦法是把解決問題。