2005年 Text 3
①Of all the components of a good night’s sleep, dreams seem to be least within our control. ②In dreams, a window opens into a world where logic is suspended and dead people speak.③A century ago, Freud formulated his revolutionary theory that dreams were the disguised shadows of our unconscious desires and fears; by the late 1970s, neurologists had switched to thinking of them as just “mental noise”—the random byproducts of the neural-repair work that goes on during sleep. ④Now researchers suspect that dreams are part of the mind’s emotional thermostat, regulating moods while the brain is “off-line.” ⑤And one leading authority says that these intensely powerful mental events can be not only harnessed but actually brought under conscious control, to help us sleep and feel better. ⑥“It’s your dream,” says Rosalind Cartwright, chair of psychology at Chicago’s Medical Center.⑦ “If you don’t like it, change it.”
①在睡一个好觉的所有因素中，梦似乎是最无法控制的一个。②在梦中，窗户通向的世界里，逻辑暂时失去了效用，死人开口说话。③一个世纪前，弗洛伊德阐述了革命性的理论，即梦是人们潜意识中的欲望和恐惧经伪装后的预示；到了20世纪70年代末期，神经病学家们转而认为梦是“精神噪音”，即睡眠时进行的神经修复活动的一种杂乱的副产品。④目前，研究人员猜想梦是大脑情感自动调节系统的组成部分，当大脑处于“掉线”状态时对情绪进行调整。⑤一名主要的权威人士说，梦这种异常强烈的精神活动不仅能被驾驭，事实上，还可以有意识地加以控制，以帮助我们更好地睡眠和感觉。⑥芝加哥医疗中心心理学系主任罗莎琳德·卡特赖特说，“⑦这是你的梦，如果你不喜欢，就改变它。”
①Evidence from brain imaging supports this view. ②The brain is as active during REM (rapid eye movement) sleep—when most vivid dreams occur—as it is when fully awake, says Dr. Eric Nofzinger at the University of Pittsburgh. ③But not all parts of the brain are equally involved; the limbic system (the “emotional brain”) is especially active, while the prefrontal cortex (the center of intellect and reasoning) is relatively quiet.④ “We wake up from dreams happy or depressed, and those feelings can stay with us all day.” says Stanford sleep researcher Dr. William Dement.
①大脑造影的证据支持了以上观点。②匹兹堡大学的埃里克博士说，在出现清晰梦境的快速动眼睡眠中大脑和清醒时一样活跃。③但并非大脑的所有部分都一样，脑边缘系统(“情绪大脑”)异常活跃，而前额皮层(思维和推理的中心地带)则相对平静。④斯坦福睡眠研究员威廉·迪蒙特博士说：“我们从梦中醒来，或者高兴或者沮丧，这些情绪会伴随我们一整天。”
①The link between dreams and emotions shows up among the patients in Cartwright’s clinic. ②Most people seem to have more bad dreams early in the night, progressing toward happier ones before awakening, suggesting that they are working through negative feelings generated during the day. ③Because our conscious mind is occupied with daily life we don’t always think about the emotional significance of
the day’s events—until, it appears, we begin to dream.
④梦和情绪之间的联系在卡特赖特诊所的病人身上显露出来了。②大多数人似乎在晚上入睡的较早阶段做更多不好的梦，而在快醒来前会逐渐做开心一些的梦，这说明人们在梦里渐渐克服了白天的不良情绪。③因为清醒时我们的头脑被日常生活琐事占据着，所以并不总想到白天发生的事情对我们情绪的影响，直到我们开始做梦，这种影响才出现。
①And this process need not be left to the unconscious. ②Cartwright believes one can exercise conscious control over recurring bad dreams. ③As soon as you awaken, identify what is upsetting about the dream.④Visualize how you would like it to end instead; the next time it occurs, try to wake up just enough to control its course. ⑤With much practice people can learn to, literally, do it in their sleep.
①这一过程不一定是无意识的。②卡特赖特认为人们可以练习有意识地控制噩梦的重演。③你一醒来就立刻确定梦中有什么在困扰你，④设想一下你所希望的梦的结局，下次再做同样的梦时，试图醒来以控制它的进程。⑤通过多次练习，人们完全可以学会在梦中这样做。
①At the end of the day, there’s probably little reason to pay attention to our dreams at all unless they keep us from sleeping or “we wake up in a panic,” Cartwright says. ②Terrorism, economic uncertainties and general feelings of insecurity have increased people’s anxiety. ③Those suffering from persistent nightmares should seek help from a therapist. ④For the rest of us, the brain has its ways of working through bad feelings. ⑤Sleep—or rather dream—on it and you’ll feel better in the morning.
①卡特赖特说，说到底，只要梦不使我们无法睡眠或“从梦中惊醒”，就没有理由太在意所做的梦。②恐怖主义、经济不确定及通常的不安全感都增加了人们的焦虑。③那些长期受噩梦折磨的人应该寻求专家帮助，④而对其他人来说，大脑有自动消除不良情绪的方法。⑤安心睡觉甚至做梦，早上醒来时你会感觉好多了。
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