I look around and can’t recognize where I am. It seems familiar but distant. I see my friends gathered by a stage where music is playing and I run over. As I begin running towards them, they become further and further away. I keep calling for them, but no one hears me. Just then, I turn around and I am in a large house with my mom calling me down for dinner. What is going on here?
我環顧四周，不知自己身在何處，看起來既熟悉又遙遠。我看到我的朋友們聚集在一個舞臺上，音樂正在響著，我向他們跑去。就在我開始靠近他們時，他們卻又變得好遠好遠。我使勁的喊他們，卻沒有人聽到。就在那時，我轉過身，看到自己在一個大房間里，媽媽在叫我吃飯。到底發生了什么?
I start hearing a distant alarm-like sound and I am transported away. I woke up in a daze sitting in my bed.
我開始聽到一種遙遠的像警報一樣的聲音，我被送走了。這時我醒過來，頭暈暈的坐在我的床上。
"Oh, it was only a dream," I said to myself. I have always had vivid and intense dreams. Sometimes, it feels like I haven’t even slept because I have been living out my dreams during my sleep. What’s even weirder is that my dreams usually have reoccurring themes of me being at a music festival or in a cabin with friends and family.
我對自己說，“哦，那只是一個夢。”我經常做一些很逼真又很緊張的夢。有時，我甚至感覺自己都沒有睡覺，因為睡覺時一直在做夢。更為奇怪的是，我的夢經常都重復發生在音樂節上，或者是在一個有朋友和家人的小屋里。
Today, dreaming is being studied even more than ever. Some say that dreams are how your receptors make sense of random thoughts while you sleep. Some say that you can’t dream of a face you have never seen before, so everyone you see in your dreams you have at least laid eyes on at one time or another.
當今，人們對夢的研究比以往更甚。有人說，夢是你的受體在你睡覺時產生的隨機想法。也有人說，你做夢時不會夢到你以前從未見過的人，所以你在夢中看到的每個人，至少都是在你生命中出現過的。
Other people think dreams are ways of expressing stress or internal feelings you may be experiencing. A lot of people say that they have dreams about being chased.
還有人認為夢是表達壓力或內心感受的方式。很多人說他們都曾在夢中被人追趕。
A common interpretation of the "being chased" dream is that you are feeling threatened. Some dream interpretation sites say you should try to reflect on what or who is chasing you to get a better idea of what is making you feel this way.
對于在夢中“被追趕”的常見解讀是，你感覺受到了威脅。一些解夢網站說，你應該試著反思到底是什么或者是誰在追你，以便更好地了解是什么讓你產生了這種感覺。
Another dream that is often experienced is flying. This dream has a much more positive interpretation, which is that you are feeling free or have broken out of a bad situation such as a relationship turned sour or a job you hate.
另一個經常會做的夢是飛翔。這個夢有一個更積極的解釋，那就是你感到自由，或者你已經擺脫了糟糕的狀況，比如關系變壞，或者你討厭的工作。
Unfortunately, if you even remember your dreams at all, you forget half of your dream within five minutes of waking up and within 10 minutes, you usually forget 90 percent of it.
不幸的是，即使你記得你的夢，可是你會在起床后5分鐘內忘掉你一半，10分鐘后，往往已經忘掉了90%。
"Dreamologists," people who devote time to the study and interpretation of dreams, suggest if you want to try to remember and study your dreams you should keep a journal beside your bed and jot down what you dreamt as soon as you wake up so you can reflect on it later.
解夢師——那些花時間研究和解析夢的人稱，如果你想記住并分析你的夢，建議你在床頭放一本日記，在你醒來后馬上記錄你的夢，這樣你就可以在后面慢慢分析它。
That’s exactly what I am going to do so I can keep track of what subconscious thoughts bubble up and find out what mysteries my brain may be unlocking while I sleep.
那正是我準備做的，這樣我就能追蹤我不斷冒出的潛意識，找出我在睡覺時大腦解鎖出來的秘密。