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?
我环顾四周，不知自己身在何处，看起来既熟悉又遥远。我看到我的朋友们聚集在一个舞台上，音乐正在响着，我向他们跑去。就在我开始靠近他们时，他们却又变得好远好远。我使劲的喊他们，却没有人听到。就在那时，我转过身，看到自己在一个大房间里，妈妈在叫我吃饭。到底发生了什么?
I start hearing a distant alarm-like sound and I am transported away. I woke up in a daze sitting in my bed.
我开始听到一种遥远的像警报一样的声音，我被送走了。这时我醒过来，头晕晕的坐在我的床上。
"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.
我对自己说，“哦，那只是一个梦。”我经常做一些很逼真又很紧张的梦。有时，我甚至感觉自己都没有睡觉，因为睡觉时一直在做梦。更为奇怪的是，我的梦经常都重复发生在音乐节上，或者是在一个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.
当今，人们对梦的研究比以往更甚。有人说，梦是你的受体在你睡觉时产生的随机想法。也有人说，你做梦时不会梦到你以前从未见过的人，所以你在梦中看到的每个人，至少都是在你生命中出现过的。
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.
还有人认为梦是表达压力或内心感受的方式。很多人说他们都曾在梦中被人追赶。
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.
对于在梦中“被追赶”的常见解读是，你感觉受到了威胁。一些解梦网站说，你应该试着反思到底是什么或者是谁在追你，以便更好地了解是什么让你产生了这种感觉。
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.
另一个经常会做的梦是飞翔。这个梦有一个更积极的解释，那就是你感到自由，或者你已经摆脱了糟糕的状况，比如关系变坏，或者你讨厌的工作。
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，即使你记得你的梦，可是你会在起床后5分钟内忘掉你一半，10分钟后，往往已经忘掉了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.
解梦师——那些花时间研究和解析梦的人称，如果你想记住并分析你的梦，建议你在床头放一本日记，在你醒来后马上记录你的梦，这样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.
那正是我准备做的，这样我就能追踪我不断冒出的潜意识，找出我在睡觉时大脑解锁出来的秘密。