Dreams
Everyone can dream. Indeed, everyone does dream. Those who ____1____ that they never dream at all actually dream ____2____ as frequently as the rest of us, ____3____ they may not remember anything about it. Even those of us who are perfectly ____4____ of dreaming night ____5____ night very seldom remember those dreams in ____6____ detail but1 merely retain an untidy mixture of seemingly unrelated impressions. Dreams are not simply visual-we dream with all our ____7____, so that we appear to experience sound, touch, smell, and taste.
One of the world’s oldest ____8____ written documents is the Egyptian Book of Dreams. This volume is about five thousand years old, so you can ____9____ that dreams were believed to have a special significance even then. Many ancient civilizations believed that you ____10____ never wake a sleeping person as, during sleep, the soul had left the body and might not be able to return ____11____ time if the sleeper were suddenly ____12____.
From ancient times to the present2 ____13____, people have been ____14____ attempts to interpret dreams and to explain their significance. There are many books available on the subject of dream interpretation, although unfortunately there are almost as many meanings for a particular dream ____15____ there are books.
词汇：
frequently /'fri?kw?ntl?/ adv.频繁地，经常地;时常，屡次
seldom /'seld?m/ adv.很少，不常
retain /ri?tein/ vt.保持，记住
significance /s?g'n?f?k?ns/ n.重要性，意义
civilisation /,s?v?la?'ze???n/ n.文明，文化
interpret /?n't??pr?t/ vt.解释，说明，口译
interpretation /?nt??pr?'te???n/ n.解释，口译