大學英語測試課教程：模擬與真題（簡體書）

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Why Do We Dream?
Dreams are a way for the subconscious to communicate with the conscious mind. Dreamingof something you are worried about, researchers say, is the brain's way of helping you getprepared for a disaster in case it occurs. Dreaming of a challenge, for example giving apresentation at work or playing sports, can enhance your performance. And cognitive (認識的)neuroscientist have discovered that dreams and the rapid eye movement (REM) that happenswhile you are dreaming are linked to our ability to learn and remember.
Dreaming is a " mood regulatory system," says Dr. Cartwright, chairman of thepsychology department at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago. She has found thatdreams help people work through the day's emotional ups and downs. It's like having a built-intherapist. While we sleep, dreams compare new emotional experience to old memories. As sheputs it, "you may wake up and think, what was Uncle Harry doing in my dream? I haven't seenhim for 50 years. But the old and new images are emotionally related. " It's the job of theconscious mind to figure out the relationship.
In fact, dream emotions can help real therapists treat patients undergoing traumatic (創傷性) life events. In a new study of 30 recently divorced adults, Cartwright tracked their dreamsover a 5-month period, measuring their feelings toward their ex-spouses. She discovered thatthose who were angriest at the spouse while dreaming had the best chance of successfully copingwith divorce. If their dreams were calm, they hadn't started to work through their emotions anddeal with the divorce. For therapists, this finding will help determined whether divorced men orwomen need counseling or have already dreamed their troubles away.
One Interpretation Doesn't Fit All
No device lets researchers read the content of dreams while we sleep, but scientists arefinding new ways to interpret once we have awakened. Forget Sigmund Freud's notion thatdreams contain images with universal meanings for all his undeniable authority in the field ofdream interpretation. A new generation of psychologists insists that dream symbols differdepending on the dreamer. In a recent study, Joseph Konick, a psychology professor at theUniversity of Ottawa in Canada, asked 13 volunteers to make two lists: one of details recalledfrom recent dreams, and another of recent events in their waking lives. When analysts wereasked to match which volunteer experienced which dream, they failed. Koninck's conclusion:Each person understands his or her dreams better than anyone else - including traditionalpsychoanalysts.
"There's just no evidence of universal dream symbols," says Koninck. "My advice is tothrow away your dream dictionary if you really want to interpret your dreams. "