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The world of dreams

Every night when you fall ________, you enter a strange world, somewhere where anything is
________ animals talk and people can fly. Its the world of ________.

Everybody dreams every night, but we dont dream for all of the night. In a normal night we have
four or five ________ of dreaming. They last about one or two hours altogether. Sometimes when
we wake up, we ________ nothing about our dreams. We usually only remember them if we wake
up while were actually dreaming. And we ________ dreams very quickly.

Why do we dream? The sort answer is: nobody knows. Most ________ believe that you dream
because your brain is sorting out information. A lot of things happen in a normal day. While youre
asleep, your ________ looks at everything. It then puts into your ________ and throws some things
away. But some people believe that dreams can ________ the future.

One night Sarah Jones, 26, had a ________ dream. She dreamt that her baby son, Robert, was dead.
She got out of the bed and went to see the little boy, but he was all right. A month later, however,
Sarah was watching television when she remembered her dream. She went to Roberts bedroom.
The little boys face was blue and he wasnt ________. Sarah slapped his ________ three times and
Robert started to cry. Sarah believes that her dream saved Roberts life.

Andrew Drake, a writer, had a very different dream. He dreamt about a horse race and he saw the
winner. It was number 11. The next day he looked in the newspaper and found that number 11 was a
horse called Star Boy. He put some ________ on it and the horse won. Unfortunately, Ive never had
another dream like it, says Andrew.

So can we really see the future in our dreams? Sleep ______, Dr Alison Stewart, thinks that its just a
coincedence. Sarah and Andrew both dreamt about things, and those things happened. But how
often have they dreamt about something and then it didnt happen? It ________ when a dream
comes ________, so we remember it. We dont remember all this times when dreams dont come
true. I had a dream last night that a shark was chasing me down the street, but I dont think its going
to happen. Ill be very ______ if it does!

1. Are these statement true or false?

1. Some people never dream.
2. We dream for about four or five hours each night.
3. You only remember a dream if you wake u pin the middle of it.
4. Scientists dont know why we dream.
5. Sarahs son died.
6. Andrew often dreams about the winners of horse races.
7. Dr Stewart thinks that dreams can predict the future.
8. Dr stewart thinks that a shark is going to attack her.
2. What does the text say about each of the questions?
1. Do you dream every night?
2. Do you find it easy to remember your dreams?
3. Why do you think we dream?
4. Has one of your dreams ever come true?
5. Can dreams predict the future?