常见的十种噩梦及含义

常见的十种噩梦及含义

The world is a scary place. And sometimes, we can't even escape that when we sleep. Nightmares are a universal human plight, with two to six percent of the population estimated to have at least one nightmare weekly. The Dream and Nightmare Laboratory at the University of Montreal lists adolescence as the peak age, with reports of nightmares being low for both young preschoolers and the elderly, and with women reporting having more nightmares than men. As unpleasant as having a nightmare is, however, dream theorists are increasingly certain that the nightmare is a form of subconscious emotional regulation, allowing you to exorcise anxieties that you experience, but do not address, in your waking hours.
世界很可怕，有时就算睡觉也摆脱不了恐惧。噩梦是人类普遍的困境，据估计2-6%的人每周至少做一次噩梦。蒙特利尔大学梦与噩梦实验室指出青少年是噩梦高发年龄，学前儿童和老年人噩梦较少，女性噩梦要比男性多。虽然做噩梦是非常不爽的，但梦境学家越来越确定噩梦是一种潜意识的情绪规划，在夜晚驱赶你的紧张与惶恐。

With this in mind, let's look at ten of the most commonly occurring nightmares, and what they are believed to represent.
让我们一起来看看最常见的10种噩梦及它们传递的讯息吧：

1. Falling 失足

Everyone has had one of these, where for whatever reason you're plummeting towards the ground at terminal velocity. First some good news: that rumor that if you hit the ground in a falling dream you'll die in Real Life? Untrue. But have you ever been mostly asleep and then had the sudden sensation of falling? That, some scientists believe, may be caused by a shift in blood pressure as you slip into unconsciousness, or by movement in inner-ear fluid, which helps control balance. Not that it helps in the moment, but knowing possible explanations has always been a help in rationalizing nightmares. Meanings attributed to falling dreams include: a fear of losing control, feeling like an element (or elements) of your life are out-of-control or a loss of emotional balance. Others argue for an evolutionary explanations: that falling dreams are primal remnants from humanity’s primate-phase.
每个人都曾梦到过因各种原因被迫跌落，那种失重感是那么的逼真。那么首先要告诉你个好消息：那些“如果你梦到自己从高处跌落摔到地上，那么意味着你在现实生活中将要死去”的谣言是假的！你有没有试过马上就要睡着的时候，突然有种要下坠的感觉？一些科学家认为这是由于血压变化所导致的，就好像你不经意间滑倒一样。虽然知道这个结果好像对当下也没什么用，但知道事情的真相可以让“解梦”更加合理化。跌落的梦境通常被解释为：对失控的恐惧、情绪的失衡等等。还有一种进化论的解释：下坠梦境是人类作为灵长类动物的重要残留证据。

2. Being Chased 追逐

Freud thought these dreams represented specific sexual fears: castration for men and rape for women. But Freud's been largely discredited as a source for dream interpretation since he interpreted nearly everything sexually. More modern interpretations suggest that chase dreams are a metaphor for insecurity- either in yourself or in your circumstances, or are about unresolved guilt. Some interpretations state that whatever is pursuing you in your dreams is an aspect of yourself that you haven't come to terms with.
弗洛伊德认为这种梦境代表了特定的性恐惧：对男性来说是阉割，对女性来说是强奸。不过弗洛伊德那一套已经被广泛抛弃了，因为他把一切都归结为性。更多的现代解释认为追逐梦暗喻了不安全感，你自己的不安全感或周围环境的不安全感，或者与未解决的内疚有关。还有一些解释认为那些在梦里追逐你的东西就你自己还没有接受的东西。

3. Naked In Public公众场合全裸

Everything is going fine in slumber-land, the elephants are minding traffic and you're about to give a presentation to your third grade teacher and a judgmental pair of cats when- oh no!- you realize that you're stark naked! There are two main ways that these dreams are interpreted. One is as a fear of being exposed, and having some aspect you'd rather keep under wraps put on display, while another suggests a sense of inferiority, like everyone can see right through your facade to the insecurities beneath. However, if no one notices that you're naked, the dream is believed to be telling you that it's an empty fear, and that your worries aren't shored up in reality.
在梦乡里一切都ok啦，大象在大街上游荡，你准备在老师和猫咪陪审团面前做展示，然后你发现，啊，没穿衣服！！对于这种裸梦，一般有两种解释。一是被曝光的恐惧，有些你不想被大家看到的东西公之于众了。另一种解释是自卑，好像每个人都能通过表面看穿你的弱点一样。然而，如果梦里没人发现你是裸的，那么这个梦是在告诉你你白害怕了，你的担心在现实中不会发生的。

4. Being Injured受伤

Being hurt in a dream can relate to areas in your waking life where you feel powerless. If it's a self-inflicted injury can relate to fears that you'll sabotage your own efforts, accidentally or otherwise. If someone else is hurting you, it might be about situations where you feel you are being cut off or kept down. In the dream, if you’re able to treat your wound or defend yourself successfully, that’s generally considered to be a positive sign, one that suggests you’re able to deal with the situation bothering you, scary as it may be. If you’re experiencing pain in your dreams, it may tie into a physical injury you’re recovering from, or represent a perceived emotional injury.
在梦境中受伤跟你清醒时感觉到的弱项有关。如果是一个自伤的梦，意味着你害怕自己会妨碍自身利益。如果是别人伤害你，可能意味着你觉得你要被炒鱿鱼了。如果你在梦中成功防守，阻止了伤害，那么这可能是一个好的提示，说明你有能力解决哪些困扰着你的事物。要是在梦里你很疼，可能脑子里联想的是以前曾经经历过的疼痛，或者是代表了情感的伤害。

5. Tooth Loss掉牙

This is a very common theme in dreams, and have several possible meanings. Loosing teeth can represent self-consciousness, either about appearance or age. Or they can be about your fear of losing face (the subconscious, much to mingled delight and horror, loves a good pun. Or a bad one.). There’s also a more physical explanation for dreams of losing teeth: those who grind their teeth, or have sensitive teeth are more likely to have dreams about losing teeth. If you have a toothache, as well dreams about losing teeth are more likely, since it’s more likely to be a back-of-your-mind worry.
这个常见的梦境有几种可能的意思。可以代表对外表或年龄的自知，或者对丢脸的恐惧。这是一个对于掉牙梦境的生理解释：那些磨牙的或者牙齿敏感的人更容易做掉牙的梦。如果你牙疼，半夜又做掉牙的梦，那么这个梦就是反应了你意识里的潜在担忧。

6. Being Lost迷路

Remember how the subconscious loves a pun? It also likes the really blatant things: dreams where you’re lost generally reflect a sense of being lost. Though, it’s important to look at how you got lost in your dream when interpreting nightmares of being in a strange place with no idea of how to get back to the familiar. If you got there under your own steam, than you might be uncertain of what you want, or can refer to a choice you aren’t sure how to make. If you’re just lost, wandering the forest, the strange city or the endless mall then you might be feeling stuck in a rut, like you’re not progressing in aspects of your life.
还记得潜意识喜欢双关吗？它有时候也是会喜欢俗套的解释。梦到迷路一般反映就是一种迷失的感觉。然而你是怎么迷路的这一点很重要，如果在梦里你的灵魂飘到一个陌生的地方，那么意味着你不确定自己想要什么，下不了决定。如果你只是在森林里或陌生的城市里迷路，那就说明你遇到了瓶颈，生活中的某个方面没有进展。

7. Being Trapped被困

This one has another fairly blatant interpretation. Dreams about being trapped reflect a sense of being trapped in real life. You might be feeling stuck in a dead-end job or feeling unable to make a choice. Or it could be a more nebulous sense of being trapped, by something like stubbornness or unwillingness to compromise. But the general interpretation is that your subconscious is giving you the nudge to act by means of blatant metaphor.
这又是一个俗套的解释，梦到被困反映的是现实中的困境。也许是被困在工作的死胡同里，或者无从选择。另一种含糊一点的解释是不愿意妥协。但通常，你的潜意识是通过隐喻来推动你采取行动的。

8. Tests考试

Apparently this one doesn’t go away once you have a few years between you and graduation. You may always run the risk of dreaming up an exam for a course that you, somehow, didn’t know you were enrolled in or are otherwise completely unprepared for. Theorists figure this is because exams and tests are so stressful in real life which makes them perfect for your subconscious to grab onto as a symbol of stress- for the rest of your life. Being unprepared for a test in a dream is felt to represent your fears about being unprepared for the challenges in your life. Failing a test in a dream, however, is thought by some to be a good omen (maybe it gets the failure out of the way while you’re asleep?).
显然，这个梦在你毕业前是赶不走的。你经常要梦到那些你并不擅长的考试。理论家指出这是因为考试在现实生活中实在让人亚历山大，潜意识里你会希望自己能完美通过。梦到没有复习过的考试意味着你害怕面对生活中未知的挑战。梦中考砸了被认为有可能是一个好征兆。

9. Dying死亡

Like with falling, if you die in a dream, you don’t die in real life. Anyways, the trappings of death in your dreams aren’t necessarily harbingers of death or bad omens. Instead, dreaming of death can represent a new beginning, an old part of yourself being laid to rest to make room for new opportunities. Dreams of graves and tombs can represent the worry that some part of yourself has ‘died’, or represent parts of yourself that have fallen to the wayside. Another widely held thought about dreams of death is that they are simply your subconscious’ way of addressing mortality, and the very human fear of death.
就像失足一样，你在梦里死了，你在现实没死。反正梦里的死亡并不代表怀运气。相反，梦里的死亡代表新的开始，你身上的老旧部分为新的机会腾出了空间。梦到坟墓或墓碑表示你的某个部分“死亡了”。另一种广泛的说法是梦见死亡是你潜意识中对死亡的本能恐惧。

10. Betrayal of a Loved One 背叛

If you have a dream about your significant other stepping out on you, and you weren’t previously worried about infidelity, it probably isn’t your subconscious picking up on something that your conscious self missed. More likely, dreams about being cheated on or being stabbed in the back by friends is about feeling abandoned or alienated by them. If they’re spending all their time on something else, be it work or what have you, you might feel a little cheated on, or at least cheated out of their time. Of course, if you were worried about infidelity already, your subconscious may have taken that fear and run with it.
如果你梦到你重要的那个他出轨了，这并不意味着你的潜意识发现了什么蛛丝马迹。梦到被朋友背叛或被朋友背后捅刀表现出来的是被抛弃和疏远。如果你生活中常常担心被背叛，那么你潜意识也会捕捉到这些信息在梦里传达给你。