waking dream

基本解释

Pain jarred him from what seemed a waking dream.
疼痛把他從像是在做夢的感覺裡拉廻來。
If the brain works just as hard sleeping as it is when we're awake, then maybe life is a waking dream [source: Eagleman].
如果我們清醒的時候大腦也像失眠那樣在工作，那麽人生衹不過是做了一個清醒著的夢【來源：Eagleman】。
Some can not explain every dream the dream, the waking dream and will be turned to the Duke of Zhou.
每逢夢到一些無法解釋的夢境時，醒來便會求助於周公解夢。

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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