【话匣子英语】梦境

 哈皮和安德鲁今天讨论的是做梦....人为什么会做梦呢

Andrew: I think, scientifically, we do dream every night, but I can’t remember them very often.

Harp¹: Yeah. I know a lot of people keep, kind of, dream journals³ by their bed so they remember. Because you forget by the time you’re awake in the daytime. But, no, I’ve tried that once and when I woke up, it was just gibberish and I couldn’t read my own writing.

Andrew: That is so funny because, actually, I tried this recently. I heard a friend of mine talking about lucid⁴ dreaming. Do you know this?

Harp: No. I don’t know it.

Andrew: So, lucid dreaming is apparently… I don’t know if this is real or not, but when you can gain consciousness⁵ in your dreams and you can control your dreams, so you can sort of decide what happens in your dreams.

Harp: That sounds like something from a sci-fi movie.

Andrew: I agree, but he said that the way that he was able to achieve this lucid state was by keeping a dream journal². So I thought, “Hmm. OK. Let me try this.” But the same thing happens. I was just writing notes on my phone about my dream, you know, as soon as I woke up. And then when I went to review, it was just gibberish. I couldn’t understand it at all.

Harp: That’s funny. Yeah, I’ve never been able to keep a dream journal.

Andrew: Yeah. And then I decided⁶ that I don’t really care about lucid dreaming, so I just gave up.

Harp: You know what happens to me sometimes? It’ll be in the middle of the day and I’ll have, kind of, that déjà vu feeling and I’ll be like, “Why was I…?” And I’ll realize, no, it was actually a dream that I had the night before.

1 harp   

n.竖琴；天琴座

参考例句：

• She swept her fingers over the strings of the harp.她用手指划过竖琴的琴弦。
• He played an Irish melody on the harp.他用竖琴演奏了一首爱尔兰曲调。

2 journal   

n.日志，日记；议事录；日记帐；杂志，定期刊物

参考例句：

• He kept a journal during his visit to Japan.他在访问日本期间坚持记日记。
• He got a job as editor of a trade journal.他找到了一份当商业杂志编辑的工作。

3 journals   

n.（某学科或专业的）杂志( journal的名词复数 )；期刊；日志；（用于报纸名）…报

参考例句：

• Which journals does the library subscribe to? 图书馆订有哪些报刊？
• This short story was published by two journals of repute. 这篇短篇小说由两种著名的杂志刊出。 来自《简明英汉词典》

4 lucid   

adj.明白易懂的，清晰的，头脑清楚的

参考例句：

• His explanation was lucid and to the point.他的解释扼要易懂。
• He wasn't very lucid,he didn't quite know where he was.他神志不是很清醒，不太知道自己在哪里。

5 consciousness   

n.意识，觉悟，知觉

参考例句：

• The experience helped to change her social consciousness.这种经验有助于改变她的社会意识。
• He lost consciousness at the first whiff of ether.他一嗅到乙醚便失去了知觉。

6 decided   

adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的

参考例句：

• This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
• There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。