第1096期:人一生只会做 5 种梦,你做过几种?

每个人都做过梦,内容都不一样,但大致有五种类型:

  • Normal dreams – 内容很普通
  • Day dreams – 百日梦(escape from reality and visualize the past, present, and future throughout the day)
  • Lucid dreams – 清醒的梦(you are aware you are dreaming)
  • False awakening dreams – 假醒梦(you thought you were awake but you were dreaming)
  • Nightmares – 噩梦

以上五种梦中值得一讲的是 lucid dreams.

Lucid的意思是神智清醒的,也可以表示语言表达清晰明了、声音明亮清脆等意思。

可以学会这个词,很有用。

Lucid writing or speech is clear and easy to understand.

If someone is lucid, they are thinking clearly again after a period of illness or confusion.

我们在睡眠中大脑会经历两个阶段:

  • rapid eye movement (REM) sleep 浅度睡眠,眼睛会快速活动
  • non-REM sleep 深度睡眠,大脑、心跳和眼部活动会逐渐慢下来

Lucid dream一般都发生在第一个阶段,REM sleep时期。这时候你的梦境一般不会太深,你常常有一点意识感觉到自己是在做梦。

说到做梦,不能不提著名的庄子梦蝶的故事。庄子梦见自己变成了蝴蝶,醒来后想到底是自己在梦中变成了蝴蝶还是蝴蝶在梦中变成了庄子?

这是个非常高深的哲学命题,出自庄子《齐物论》,原文是:

者庄周梦为胡蝶,栩栩然胡蝶也。自喻适志与!不知周也。俄然觉,则蘧蘧然周也。不知周之梦为胡蝶与?胡蝶之梦为周与?周与胡蝶则必有分矣。此之谓物化。

林语堂先生把这个小故事翻译成了英文:

Once upon a time, I, Chuang Chou, dreamt that I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither, to all intents and purposes a butterfly. I was conscious only of my happiness as a butterfly, unaware that I was Chou. Soon I awaked,and there I was, veritably myself again. Now I do not know whether I wasthen a man dreaming that I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly,dreaming that I am a man. Between a man and a butterfly, there is necessarily adistinction. The transition is called”the transformation of material things”.(摘自:https://www.jianshu.com/p/d68987ccf1de

庄子借由一个生活小场景提出了一个哲学命题——到底什么是真实?什么是梦境?这个哲学思辨启发了后世无数艺术家和文学家,是个了不起的哲学思想。

我猜想庄子的那个梦大概就是一种 lucid dream吧。

今天提到的五种梦你都做过吗?你记忆最深的梦是什么?

希望你只做 sweet dreams,梦里也快乐。