200731 Dreams

1. In the third millennium BCE, Mesopotamian kings recorded and interpreted their dreams on wax tablets. A thousand years later, Ancient Egyptians wrote a dream book listing over a hundred common dreams and their meanings. 2. And in the years since, we haven't paused in our quest to understand why we dream. So, after a great deal of scientific research, technological advancement, and persistence, we still don't have any definite answers, but we have some interesting theories. 3. We dream to solve problems. Unconstrained by reality and the rules of conventional logic, in your dreams, your mind can create limitless scenarios to help you grasp problems and formulate solutions that you may not consider while awake. And it's the reason that sometimes the best solution for a problem is to sleep on it. 在公元前3000年，美索不达米亚的国王们把他们的梦记录在蜡板上，并解读了这些梦。一千年后，古埃及人写了一本关于梦的书，列出了一百多个常见的梦及其含义。 从那以后的几千年里，我们一直在探索我们为什么会做梦。所以，经过大量的科学研究，技术进步，和坚持不懈，我们仍然没有找到明确的答案，但我们得出了一些有趣的理论。 我们做梦是为了解决问题。大脑不受现实和传统逻辑规则的约束，在你的梦中，你的大脑可以创造出无限的场景来帮助你抓住问题，想出解决方案，这些是你在清醒时没办法考虑到的。这就是为什么有时候解决问题的最好办法就是睡一觉。