Dreams【梦之闲话】
Everyone can dream. Indeed, everyone does dream. Those who____ 1_____ that they never dream at all actually dream____ 2____ as frequently as the rest of us,____ 3____ they may not remember anything about it. Even those of us who are perfectly____ 4____ of dreaming night ____ 5____ night very seldom remember those dreams in____ 6____ detail but1 merely retain an untidy mixture of seemingly unrelated impressions. Dreams are not simply visual-we dream with all our ____ 7 ____ , so that we appear to experience sound, touch, smell, and taste.
One of the world's oldest____ 8 ____ written documents is the Egyptian Book of Dreams. This volume is about five thousand years old, so you can____ 9____ that dreams were believed to have a special significance even then. Many ancient civilisations believed that you ____ 10____ never wake a sleeping person as, during sleep, the soul had left the body and might not be able to return 11 time if the sleeper were suddenly ____ 12____ Fromancient times to the present2____ 13____ , people have been____ 14____ attempts to interpret dreams and to explain their significance. There are many books available on the subject of dream interpretation, although unfortunately there are almost as many meanings for a particular dream____ 15____ there are books.
