英语流行话题听力:Unit51 解梦

[00:00.10] Unit 51 Understanding Dreams We dream for four hours every night, but may just be able to remember one dream every few days. [00:12.02] It is every person's secret life -- and one we typically want to know more about. [00:18.01] We want to tap into those nighttime fantasies that have us flying, saving the world and dating movie stars. [00:25.43] And we 'd like to both learn from and escape our nightmare -- being chased by wild animals, [00:32.00] falling off a cliff or sitting down to an exam we never studied for. [00:37.59] Dream researchers find that pain is rarely experienced in dreams. [00:42.55] And we do dream in color. [00:45.20] But because it's so hard to remember dreams most people forget that fact. 70 to 80 percent of a dream's content comes from the previous day, [00:56.03] though the elderly often dream of events from their teens and twenties. [01:01.52] Women dream of males and females, and their dreams are often focused on relationships. [01:08.20] Men's dreams focus more on males, success and failure. [01:13.45] 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. [01:27.31] For instance, having nightmares means you are psychologically disturbed, suffering from stress, anxiety or depression. [01:36.47] Nightmares can be stopped. [01:39.10] One way to do this is by dealing with the problem. [01:42.36] Confronting a bully at word could stop the dreams of them breaking into your house. [01:48.12] Another way is to write dreams down, changing any detail that does not feel right. [01:53.28] That could mean making the monster run away, or simply changing the color of the walls. [01:59.44] Doing this helps get the fear out of nightmares, and they disappear. [02:05.05] While many dreams are dark, they do serve a purpose -- most importantly, perhaps, helping us to solve problems and develop insight. [02:15.09] Jennifer, a 34-year old journalist, did just that when she was considering going abroad to work. [02:22.21] One night she dreamed she was a fashion reporter in New York, where she met supermodels and artists. [02:29.44] The dreams made her feel more confident about taking risks. [02:33.51] A few months later she quit her job and went to Cuba for three months to study Spanish. [02:40.07] Dreams can help us get used to new people in our lives -- mothers to-be, for instance, dream about how their baby might look -- and get over those we have lost. [02:51.27] For years after a friend died as a teen, Jane, a 38-year old stay at-home mother dreamed of him. [02:59.19]" I 'd run into him and he 'd tell me it was all a big mistake, [03:03.35] that he was not really dead," she recalls. [03:06.43] She 'd wake up feeling depressed. [03:09.14] Such dreams may be part of the mourning process and help us get used to the idea that someone is gone.

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