Can you remember a time when you woke up from a fantastic or strange dream? Maybe you were afraid and turned on the light or the dream was so good you wanted to sleep longer. But do you think your dreams are telling you something?
Today, too, many people can remember a time when they saw a place or person in their dream and then, later, the dream happened in real life. Most people have four to six dreams every night after the age of ten. So, an-80-year-old·person has probably had-140,000 dreams. Maybe we forget 95-99 percent of our dreams, but that's still thousands of dreams, that might "come true".
Around the 18th and 19th centuries, there were two popular ideas about dreams. One said that the things we see in our dreams are things we keep in our subconscious(潜意识) because we don't want or need to think about them when we're awake, Dreams are just random thoughts from our day but we try to make a story from them when we wake up. Perhaps both ideas are a little bit right. Maybe dreams are made from the thoughts we have during the day, but we see them as symbols.
When we're awake, we think in words most of the time. But when we're sleeping, the part of our brain that helps us with language sleeps, and the part that makes us happy or sad or angry is awake and busy. If you can understand these symbols, you have a window into your subconscious.
A. That's as many as. 2, 000 dreams per year
B. Maybe that's not surprising because we dream a lot.
C. Also, how you were feeling in the dream is important.
D. For centuries, people thought dreams were messages from gods or spirits.
E. For example, a dream of flying might be a symbol for an exciting new job.
F. The opposite idea said the brain organizes thoughts from the day while we're sleeping.
G. So, maybe our thoughts come to us in dreams as feelings and symbols instead of words
