Level B2 General English

Lesson 33

Dreams And Nightmares
夢と悪夢

It is the belief of many people that dreams are telling us something and there are people that devote their lives to interpreting them. In some cases, these are professional people such as doctors, while in other cases it is done by people that are untrained. Sometimes when we have a dream it is as if it is trying to tell us that something is going to happen to us in the future.

A person might have a dream that seems to us as if we have experienced it before and this is what is termed as “deja vu”. There are times when we have a dream and then at some point later in our life we have an experience and we think this is very much like a dream that we had. This term simple means this experience is very, very similar to something that happened in the past.

Sometimes it seems as if dreams are a way for our minds to try an experience that we had heard of or read about and which seemed like something we might like to try. The reverse of this is also true where we dream about it first and then hear or read about it later. This is the type of situation that might lead us to see the dream as deja vu.