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Learn About "Used to Do" and "Be Used to"

Date: Oct 14 2011

Grammar: Used to Do vs Be Used to

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Even though scientists have been studying dreams for hundreds of years, we still don’t understand why we have them or what they mean. Some dreams are so vivid and intense, it seems like they must carry some sort of hidden message. Other dreams are more ordinary or realistic. Many of us forget our dreams the minute we wake up. But some dreams are so striking, they’re impossible to forget. They stick with us as we go about our day. Hear Devan and Jeff talk about their dreams.

尽管科学家已经对梦进行了几百年的研究,却依然无法解释做梦的原因或梦境的意义。有些梦如此生动和强烈,就好像蕴含了某种隐藏信息一样。其他梦则更为普通或现实。大部分人在醒来时就会忘记所做的梦。但有的梦令人印象深刻,难以忘记。它们始终萦绕在脑海里,陪我们度过这一天。听听德凡和杰夫如何谈论他们的梦。

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Devan

Devan

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Jeff

Devan:  So last night, I was dreaming about eating and then I woke up and I was in the kitchen with a muffin in my hand.

Jeff:  What? Is that the first time that’s happened?

Devan:  I don’t know if it is, but it’s the first time I woke up while it was happening. I totally realized that I was sleepwalking. It was a very surreal moment.

Jeff:  Could’ve been worse. You could’ve had a gun in your hand, or a knife.

Devan:  That’s true. But what if I eat in my sleep all the time and then I start gaining a bunch of weight? What if I eat like a whole pie in my sleep or something and don’t even realize it?

Jeff:  I don’t think that’s gonna happen.

Devan:  Do you ever have crazy dreams?

Jeff:  Yeah. I do. All the time.

Devan:  Like nightmares, or are they realistic?

Jeff:  Luckily I don’t have nightmares anymore. I used to have some when I was a kid that…they were very, very scary. But now, I don’t know, I still have pretty intense dreams, usually when I take naps in the middle of the day.

Devan:  And do you remember them vividly when you wake up?

Jeff:  I’d say maybe two-thirds of the time. At least for five minutes. I’ve heard if you write them down you can remember them better. And you can sort of train yourself.

Devan:  I should start doing that.

Jeff:  Yeah. You should check it out, and maybe it’ll solve the muffin problem.

 

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Recently Devan had a dream that she was eating. When she woke up, she was surprised to find herself in the kitchen with some food in her hand! She realized that she had been sleepwalking.

Devan and Jeff talk about their dreams. Jeff used to have very scary nightmares. He doesn’t have nightmares anymore, but he still has intense and vivid dreams.

Jeff says that if you want to remember your dreams, you should write them down as soon as you wake up. Devan wants to start writing down her dreams. She hopes that will help her with her sleepwalking problem.

Do you remember your dreams? Are they usually vivid, scary, or realistic? Do you ever sleepwalk?

 

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EvinW

EvinW

China

There is an old Chinese saying that directly tells us why people have dreams. “日有所思,夜有所梦。” It means that what you dream at night has a direct relationship with what you concerns and does in the day.

06:32 AM Oct 14 2011 |

EvinW

EvinW

China

I did sleepwalk when I was a kid. Now I even seldom have dreams. But my roomate used to tell me I often murmured sth when I was sound asleep. That’s quite horrible.

06:18 AM Oct 14 2011 |

bonniewang99

China

Very good,I like some lesson that be connect with our life.

06:09 AM Oct 14 2011 |

Murun

Mongolia

I have a dream every night and sometimes I remember vividly some of them. But there are also some strange dreams that I can`t remember after I woke up. Until today I had also a few realistic dreams and I still don`t know it happened  in my dream or in a real life. I`m pretty sure I don`t sleepwalk like Devan did. But in the future I don`t know if I have some this kind of dream problem or not, but I hope no.

05:26 AM Oct 14 2011 |

wasimreza

Barbados

i usually dont have dreams while i sleep…sound deep sleep

04:17 AM Oct 14 2011 |

infinity93

infinity93

Malaysia

i think dreams can be realistic too..but i cant remember most of my dreams..and i dont know why..sometimes in my dreams i met with unfamiliar people and finally i met them in my real life…weird right?

03:58 AM Oct 14 2011 |

King_zero

King_zero

China

A dream? I think that is a way to foresee the predict the future,maybe sometimes you will experience the things in your dreams in future,because the phenomenon is happen on me,that’s really..

03:54 AM Oct 14 2011 |

the sky'son

China

that is right ,maybe it is a phenomenon for everyone to make dreams,we are all curious that why and how they happen.i believe one day we will describe it though it must take our many time to fine the reasons.i am very curious!

03:11 AM Oct 14 2011 |

Ada1125

Ada1125

China

Yes,I always remember my dreams when I wake up.Fortunately,most of the time my dreams are vivid and nice,even though they are surreal.but some times I found I cry when I wake up,this makes me feel terrible.


I never sleepwalking.

02:38 AM Oct 14 2011 |

dhtt86

dhtt86

United States

idk how dreams affect ur life., but they really did to me couples of time. some i remember, others just fly from one ear to another. but sweet dreams , which i believe, always make you feel energetic for a longggggggg day

02:23 AM Oct 14 2011 |

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wwongsapun

wwongsapun

Thailand

No,I never to sleepwalker…hehehehehe but my old friend ever sleepwalk she walk by foot go to outside on the street it’s dangerous… For me I often to dream was so striking. So I want to remember it but just a few day I forgot it….Didn’t take note or write because I think it’s come to my dream again…

02:22 AM Oct 14 2011 |

annie2106

China

Recently , I allways have dreams when I fell asleep during night . Even , during my schoold time , I had nightmares often in the deep night, and  they were so scary to make me be afraid to sleep again. Usually happend that , I have no choice but woke up my roommates to accompany me at that time. Luckily , now  I dont have that nightmares any more .

01:58 AM Oct 14 2011 |

david yun

South Korea

When I was young, I uesd to dream nightmares, especially when I had a bad cold. Well, but luckily as I grew up, they’re gone. I don’t know exactly what it was about. I just felt scary of that, so when I felt ill, I was scary of that the nightmare would be dreamed when I fell asleep.


Dream is a good topic to keep talking with someone because most of people have unusual dreams.  

01:34 AM Oct 14 2011 |

hermitlady

China

yes, i remember my dream. they usally vivd,scary , realistic.but i never sleepwalking. i usually dream my father whom had been dead ten years ago.

01:29 AM Oct 14 2011 |

shadows goldsmith

Syrian Arab Republic

sweet dreams

01:09 AM Oct 14 2011 |

La Princesse de la vie

Egypt

hmm . i don’t know if i dream or not , i mean when i wake up , i don’t remember anything i even don’t remember if i was dreaming or not



but for a particular period of my lifetime i can’t forget that most of my dreams were scary , maybe that because i like scary movies and i watch them much.



also i remember one or two of my dreams and i think they are realistic as they were about my future or maybe they were just expressing my future wishes not dreams !!

10:47 PM Oct 13 2011 |

 julito

julito

Argentina

Devan sleepwalking ? i remember having read of a woman  that  at the time of waking up


 she had peanut butter in her teeths. Obviously ,she had been sleepwalking  and  going to the kitchen to eat it.

08:30 PM Oct 13 2011 |

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