waking dream

基本解释

Pain jarred him from what seemed a waking dream.
疼痛把他从像是在做梦的感觉里拉回来。
If the brain works just as hard sleeping as it is when we're awake, then maybe life is a waking dream [source: Eagleman].
如果我们清醒的时候大脑也像失眠那样在工作，那么人生只不过是做了一个清醒着的梦【来源：Eagleman】。
Some can not explain every dream the dream, the waking dream and will be turned to the Duke of Zhou.
每逢梦到一些无法解释的梦境时，醒来便会求助于周公解梦。

And then I saw, around the edges of his face, in the balled musculature and the set of his eyes and jaw, that he was in a waking dream.
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