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4 考研英语基础提升真题阅读(35) 2014 考研英语怎么复****基础最重要,现在是基础复****阶段,同学们要对各个模块的知识点要加深学****2014 考研英语基础提升真题阅读(34) 这本书,希望考生下载学****坚持= 成功! 2005 Text 3 Of all ponents ofa good night's sleep, dreams seem to be least within our control. In dreams, a window opens into a world where logic is suspended and dead people speak. A century ago, Freud formulated his revolutionary theory that dreams were the disguised shadows of our unconscious desires and fears, by the late 1970s. neurologists had switched to thinking of them as just “ mental noise ” the random byproducts of the neural-repair work that goes on during sleep. Now researchers suspect that dreams are part of the mind's emotional thermostat, regulating moods while the brain is“ off-line ” And one leading authority says that these intensely powerful mental events can be not only harnessed but actually brought under conscious control, to help us sleep and feel better, “ It's your dream ” says Rosalind Cartwright, chair of psychology at Chicago's Medical Center. “ If you don't like it, change it.” Evidence from brain imaging supports this view. The brain is as active during REM (rapid eye movement) sleep-when most vivid dreams occur-as it is when fully awake, says Dr, Eric Nofzinger at the University of Pittsburgh. But not all parts of the brain are equally involved, the limbic system (the “ emotional brain ”)is especially active, while the prefrontal tex (the center of intellect and reasoning) is relatively quiet. “ We wake up from dreams happy of depressed, and those feelings can stay with us all day ” says Stanford sleep researcher Dr, William Dement. The link between dreams and emotions shows up among the patients in Cartwright ’s clinic. Most people seem to have more bad dreams early in the night, progressing toward happier ones before awakening, suggesting that they are working through negative feelings generated during the day. Because our conscious mind is occupied with daily life we don ’t always think about the emotional significance o