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Dreams 夢 撰文及考題設計 British Council 英協教育中心Nicholas Gray 中譯 陳怡君（中央社編譯）
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ave you ever wondered whether your dreams
between 1 and 2 hours dreaming in 10-30 minute
have any meaning? Can they tell you anything
periods of a stage of sleep called REM (Rapid Eye
about your life? How often do you dream? Why do
Movement) sleep. If you think you don’t dream,
you dream?
it’s much more likely that you weren’t in the REM
你有沒有想過夢境是否有任何意義？夢能告訴
stage of sleep when you woke up, and therefore
你有關自己目前生活嗎？你做夢的頻率為何？還
can’t remember; it is estimated that we forget over
有，你為什麼會做夢？
90% of our dreams. Second, it’s believed that pets
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dream too. There’s no way to confirm this as we
The answers to some of these questions might
can’t ask our dogs or cats, but they have the same
surprise you. First, everyone dreams every night.
brain activity as humans do when they’re dreaming.
Most people have 4 to 7 dreams a night and spend
Third, although experts disagree about whether newborn babies dream or not, babies do spend half of their sleeping time in REM sleep, and given that they spend 18 hours a night sleeping, this is around 9 hours every night when they might be dreaming. 這些問題的部分答案可能會讓你 感到驚訝。首先，每個人每晚都會 做夢。大部分的人一個晚上會花一 到二小時做四到七個夢，這些夢發 生於「快速動眼期」（REM）睡眠階 段，每個週期約持續10至30分鐘。如 果你認為你沒有在做夢，比較有可 能的情況是當你醒來時不是在REM 階段，因此不會記得。一般估計我們
若以我們每晚都會做夢的觀點來看，「為什麼會做夢？」成為一個眾人好奇的問題。 （歐新社）
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