| What did you dream about last night? 你昨晚夢見了什么？ What did you dream about last night? Did your teeth fall out or did you fly? Maybe you died or someone you know did. Or maybe you were back in high school and realized suddenly that you were naked. These are among the most common dreams people report, said Ivy Norris, field director for the Oklahoma Schools of Metaphysics, and they all mean something. 你昨晚夢見了什么?牙掉了抑或是在飛翔？也許夢見你死了，或許你認識的某人死了。或者也許你回到了高中時代且突然發(fā)現(xiàn)自己赤身裸體。俄克拉荷馬州大學學科領導人艾維諾里斯說，這些都是人們最經(jīng)常敘述的夢境，而且他們都代表特殊的含義。 Many dream researchers, Norris included, think that understanding your dreams can lead to significant improvements in your waking life. 包括諾里斯在內(nèi)的許多夢的研究者認為，理解你所做的夢可以對你醒著時的生活帶來重大的改進。 "If people know what the symbols represent, then they know what part of themselves that they’re running from or that they need to face or need to embrace,” Norris said. For example, dreams of death represent changes in your daily life, as do babies in dreams. Cars in dreams represent the physical body and can indicate health problems. And animals represent habitual behaviors that can be detrimental and need changing. “假如人們知道這些夢境代表什么，那么他們就知道自己執(zhí)行的是身體哪部分的需求，或者自身需要面對或迎接的是什么”諾里斯說，例如，夢見死亡或嬰兒代表日常生活中的改變。夢中的汽車代表身體，夢見汽車則可能暗示健康問題。而夢見動物則象征著習慣性行為可能有害，需要進行改變。 People in dreams represent aspects of the dreamer. People of the opposite sex represent subconscious aspects of the dreamer while people of the same sex represent aspects of your conscious mind with which you’re more familiar. 夢中的人，象征著做夢者的某些方面。夢見異性象征著做夢者下意識里的某些方面；而夢見同性則象征著做夢者潛意識里某些熟悉的方面。 Dreams are a universal connection, Norris said, because almost everyone dreams and a "symbolic universal language of mind” applies to anyone at anytime. Many dreams have very specific interpretations. Here are some of the most common dreams and their interpretations or symbolism. 諾里斯說，夢具有普遍性，因為幾乎人人都會做夢，而且“思想的通用符號語言”在任何時候都適用于任何人。許多夢境都有其特別的含義。這里談到了一些最為普遍的夢及這些夢的含義或象征意義。 Dreams of flying. Dreams of flying represent feelings of freedom that may result from an instance when you overcame a limitation or obstacle. Usually, children have more flying dreams than adults, Norris said, because children are more open to their possibilities, and adults have often accepted limitations imposed by society. 夢見在飛翔。夢見在飛翔象征著自由的感覺，這種感覺可能起因于，例如當你克服了某項限制或困難。通常，兒童比成人更常夢見在飛，諾里斯宣傳，因為成人通常已經(jīng)接受了社會強加給他們的限制，而兒童則留有天性。 Teeth falling out. Food in a dream is symbolic of knowledge because food nourishes the physical body and knowledge nourishes the soul. Teeth are a means to break down food or knowledge. When your teeth fall out in a dream, it could signify that you feel ill-equipped to break down the knowledge that you have available, that the way you break things down has changed. That change can be either positive or negative. 夢見掉牙。夢中的食物象征著知識，因為食物滋養(yǎng)身體，同樣，知識滋養(yǎng)心靈。牙齒意味著分解食物或知識。當在夢中你的牙掉了，這可能意味著你并未充分準備好消化你所擁有的知識，或者你消化東西的方式發(fā)生了改變。這種改變可以是積極的或消極的。 High school dreams. Either you’re woefully unprepared for a big test or you’re naked. High school is a place of learning from the past, Norris said, and dreaming of being unprepared for a high school test can indicate a struggle to access information you need to handle in your life. 夢見高校。不管是你悲傷地參加一次毫無準備的大考還是你赤身裸體。高校是過去學習的地方，諾里斯說，而夢見正參加高校無準備的考試可能預示著想努力獲得你生活中需要運用的信息。 Being naked in a dream indicates open and honest expression. Clothes represent how we express ourselves and the face we show the public. If your dream nudity makes you feel embarrassed, this could mean that you need to work on being more open and honest in your daily life. If your nudity doesn’t bother you, you are more comfortable with your self expression. 在夢里赤身裸體象征著開放及真誠的情感。衣物代表我們表達自身的方式以及展現(xiàn)給大眾的一面。如果夢中裸體令你感覺困窘不安，這可能意味著你需要努力使自己在日常生活中更加開放與真誠。如果夢中裸體沒有煩擾到你，那你將更加坦然地面對自己的情感。 Recurring dreams and nightmares. Recurring dreams are your subconscious mind’s way of trying to get your attention. A recurring dream is a step down from a nightmare that is a louder, more insistent way your subconscious mind communicates. If you have a recurring dream, Norris recommends trying to stop in the dream and identify what the dream is trying to tell you. That could mean asking someone who is chasing you what he or she wants as in the case Norris recalls of a woman who dreamed for years that an old, haggard woman was chasing her around her Home. When she finally stopped in the dream and asked the old woman what she represented, the old woman suddenly turned into a beautiful young woman and replied, "I represent your question of ‘what if?’” 重復的夢及噩夢。重復的夢是你試圖下意識地引起自身注意的方式。重復的夢是噩夢的下一步，是你的潛意識里更響亮，更堅決的傳達方式。假如你做了重復的夢，諾里斯建議，試著在夢中停下，去搞清楚這個夢到底想要告訴你什么。這可能意味著尋問追趕你的那個人，他或她到底想要的是什么，就像諾里斯回想到的這個案例中的一樣，一個女人多年來一直夢見一個又老又憔悴的婦人在她家周圍追趕她。當她終于在夢中停下來問那個婦人，她代表的是什么的時候，那個老婦人瞬間變?yōu)橐粋€漂亮的年輕女子，并回答她說：“我正代表你的疑問—‘假如…(我老了…)’”。
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