*梦的产生

Robert Stickgold, an associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, believes that as you go to bed, you are thinking about some of those emotional issues that you haven't wanted to deal with. You've got about a 10-20% shot. He says that dreams are mixtures created by the unconscious mind as it processes, sorts and stores emotions from the day.

哈佛医学院的精神病学副教授罗伯特·斯蒂克戈尔德：如果你某晚上床时考虑过某些你不想处理的感情问题，那么你梦到这些问题的几率约为10-20%。他认为，梦是由潜意识处理、分类和储存白天的情感时产生的混合产物。

*解决方案

Dr. Shelby Freedman Harris, an American, is running a behavioral sleep medicine program that helps nightmare sufferers to rewrite the script of their recurring dreams using a technique called Image Rehearsal Therapy. One of her patients had recurring nightmares of being surrounded by sharks. She imagined they were dolphins instead and rehearsed the scene during 5 sessions, and the nightmares vanished. A young patient having nightmares of being chased turned the pursuer into chocolate and ate him. And it works.

美国谢尔比·弗里德曼·哈里斯博士目前负责一个行为睡眠医疗项目，主要帮助噩梦患者利用"意象排演治疗"改变反复出现的梦境。她的一个病人总是反复做被鲨鱼包围的噩梦，她就想像它们是海豚而不是鲨鱼，并在5个疗程中排演这一幕，于是噩梦消失了。另一位病人在噩梦中总被人追逐，他把追他的人想象成巧克力，一口吃掉。该做法最终也起到了效用。