個人練習用、英語長文：夢の効用

(Dream researchers have ascertained that everyone dreams for about one and a half hours every night.)

Dream researchers have ascertained that everyone dreams for about one and a half hours every night.

(That means that each person dreams for about four years in an average lifetime.)

That means that each person dreams for about four years in an average lifetime.

(Most western people have fallen into the trap of assuming that dreams are not usefull or neccessary,)

Most western people have fallen into the trap of assuming that dreams are not usefull or neccessary,

(but a few diligent researchers believe that the world of dreams is a gateway to knowledge and power.)

but a few diligent researchers believe that the world of dreams is a gateway to knowledge and power.

(There is a deceptively simple reason why we forget the lessons of these inner institutes of enlightment:)

There is a deceptively simple reason why we forget the lessons of these inner institutes of enlightment:

(it is because nobody taught us how to remember, and also because our waking consciousness)

it is because nobody taught us how to remember, and also because our waking consciousness

(and our senses are focused on things in the busy world outside our minds.)

and our senses are focused on things in the busy world outside our minds.

(However, we can learn how to retain the lessons that come to us in our dreams.)

However, we can learn how to retain the lessons that come to us in our dreams.

(Such knowledge is very old and it is only now begining to be appreciated.)

Such knowledge is very old and it is only now begining to be appreciated.