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智课网TOEFL备考资料托福阅读练习驯服噩梦 现代社会生活节奏快，压力较大，大家的睡眠时间都非常宝贵。如果这宝贵的睡眠时间因为恶梦而受到影响会让人倍加烦恼和不快。下面， 小马 过河小编就带你进入今天的 托福 阅读材料，帮你找到驯服噩梦的好方法。 In the new movie, Inception, a master thief is able to infiltrate peoples dreams and steal their subconscious secrets -- even plant a dream idea theyll think is their own.As fantastical as that seems, an evolving area of sleep research holds that it is possible for people to direct their own dreams, in a limited way.For example, people who suffer from recurring nightmares can learn to substitute happier endings. Practitioners of lucid dreaming -- who train themselves to be aware that they are dreaming -- say they can try out fantasies like flying. 在新电影《盗梦空间》(Inception)中，大盗能够潜入人们的梦中，偷走他们潜意识中的秘密──甚至还能植入梦的构思，让人们以为那是自己的梦。正如它所展现的奇妙想象一样，一个发展之中的睡眠研究领域认为，人们可以有限地指挥自己的梦。例如，反复做噩梦的人可以学会用更快乐的梦境结局取而代之。清醒梦境的实践者──训练自己意识到在做什么梦的人──说，他们可以在梦中尝试像飞行这样的幻想。 Ordering up a dream about a nagging personal problem is difficult, but possible, says Robert Stickgold, an associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. As you go to bed tonight, really think about some of those emotional issues that you havent wanted to deal with. Youve got about a 10% to 20% shot. 哈佛医学院(Harvard Medical School)的精神病学副教授罗伯特 斯蒂克戈尔德(Robert Stickgold)说，控制关于烦人的个人问题的梦很难，但却是可能的。“如果你今晚上床时考虑过某些你不想处理的感情问题，那么你梦到这些问题的几率约为10%至20%。” That fits with the current understanding of what dreams are and why we have them. Once thought to represent repressed sexual urges, or simply neurons firing randomly, dreams are now believed to be mash-ups created by the unconscious mind as it processes, sorts and stores emotions from the day.We take our problems to sleep and we work through them during the night, says Rosalind Cartwright, an emeritus professor of at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, who has spent nearly 50 years studying sleep and dreams. 这与目前人们对梦是什么以及我们为何会做梦的理解相符。人们曾经认为梦表示被压抑的性冲动，或只是随机的神经元放电，但现在人们认为，梦是由潜意识处理、分类和储存白天的情感时产生的混合产物。“我们带着问题入睡，在夜里处理这些问题，”位于芝加哥的拉什大学医学中心(Rush Univ