别小看了你的梦

此段摘自《个人与群体事件的本质》

第九章第867节

梦，进入更深的创造

梦对人类的生存是非常重要的——不仅因为做梦有一种生物上的必要性，而且因为在梦中，人类沉浸于更深的创造层面，因此那些未来需要的行动、发明及创意，才会在恰当的时间与地点出现。按照进化论的旧说法，我指的是人的进化过程也依赖着他的梦。

事实上，大多数你们所认为的那些只属于人类的特征，在所有其他物种中都有某种程度的显现。然而，人类梦的性质才是所谓人类进化的主因。你们学会以不同于其他生物的方式做梦。我想你们会喜欢这句话。

仅仅运用智力是不够的

在语言被发明之前，你们就梦见自己在说话。是你们梦的性质及梦的创造力造就了现在的你们，否则，你们会发展出一种机械般的语言——假设你们能发展出一种的话——用来指明称呼、地点，并处理最简单、客观的实相：“我走这里。他走那里。太阳很热。”你们就不会对具体事实有那种直接的描述，也根本无法设想那些不曾存在过的物体，无法想像自己身处于新奇的情境中。你们对季节就不会有任何整体的画面，因为做梦训练了记忆力，而且延长了人注意力的持续时间。梦强化了日常生活的学习，对人的进步而言是非常重要的。

仅仅运用智力的话，虽历经世世代代，人类却根本无法通过日常经验学到这样的知识，比如，一个季节跟随在另一个季节之后。他会太过于活在当下而无法了解这些。可是，在一个季节里，他梦到另外的季节，而在梦里，他看见自己播撒水果的种子，就如在日常生活里看到风在播种一样。

大多的发明都源于梦境

他的梦提醒他，一个寒冷的季节来过，而且还会再来。你们大多数的发明都源于梦境，再说一次，是你们梦的性质使你们与其他物种如此不同。

人类的创造性也是你们那种特定的梦专门化的结果。梦本身相当于一种独特的存在状态，在梦中，你们将物质实相与非物质实相的元素结合在一起。梦几乎是两个实相之间的门槛，而在这门槛处，你们学着把自己在物质实相中的意图保持得够久，因而能有一段短暂的注意力持续时间，借此从非物质实相里汲取所需的创造元素。

一般而言，动物在梦里较少以物质世界为导向。动物的确会梦到物质实相，但在时间上却比你们短暂得多。它们会把自己沉浸在梦里，沉浸在一种不同类型的做梦意识里，我希望日后再加以解释。

The dreams of the species are highly important to its survival — not just because dreaming is a biological necessity, but because in dreams the species is immersed in deeper levels of creativity, so that those actions, inventions, ideas that will be needed in the future will appear in their proper times and places. In the old terms of evolution, I am saying that man's evolutionary progress was also dependent upon his dreams.

Now many of the characteristics you consider human — in fact, most of them — appear to one extent or another in all other species. It was the nature of man's dreams, however, that was largely responsible for what you like to think of as the evolution of your species. You learned to dream differently than other creatures. I thought you would like that quotation.

You dreamed you spoke languages before their physical invention, of course. It was the nature of your dreams, and your dreams' creativity, that made you what you are, for otherwise you would have developed a mechanical-like language — had you developed one at all — that named designations, locations, and dealt with the most simple, objective reality: "I walked there. He walks there. The sun is hot." You would not have had that kind of bare statement of physical fact. You would not have had any way of conceiving of objects that did not already exist. You would not have had any way of imagining yourselves in novel situations. You would not have had any overall picture of the seasons, for dreaming educated the memory and lengthened man's attention span. It reinforced the lessons of daily life, and was highly important in man's progress.

Using the intellect alone, man did not simply learn through daily experience over the generations, say, that one season followed the other. He lived too much in the moment for that. In one season he dreamed of the others, however, and in dreams he saw himself spreading the seeds of fruits as he had seen the wind do in daily life.

His dreams reminded him that a cold season had come, and would come again. Most of your inventions came in dreams, and, again, it is the nature of your dreams that makes you so different from other species.

The creativity of the species is also the result of your particular kind of dream specialization. It amounts to a unique state of existence by itself, in which you combine the elements of physical and nonphysical reality. It is almost a threshold between the two realities, and you learned to hold your physical intent long enough at that threshold so that you have a kind of brief attention span there, and use it to draw from nonphysical reality precisely those creative elements that you need.

Animals, as a rule are less physically-oriented in their dreaming states. They do dream of physical reality, but much more briefly than you. Otherwise, they immerse themselves in dreams in different kinds of dreaming consciousness that I hope to explain at a later date.

编译：Laujenny婷/    美编：周周

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