每一个人,除了处在深度睡眠状态外,他的意识无时无刻不在活动。有时候这种意识活动甚至就像是我们脑子里住着的另一个人,很难被我们主动控制。它一会儿跳到这里,一会儿跳到那里,又像小溪一样流动不停,不断变化,从不间断。其实就算是在深度睡眠时,意识也是没有间断过的,只不过很少被我们清醒地感觉到、记住它的内容。一般来说,人类的这种意识的流动不受时间、空间的限制,从一个念头跳跃到另一个念头,甚至都没有逻辑、因果关系。美国的心理学家把意识的这一特性叫“意识流”。我们平时所说的内心活动、心理活动,都是这么一回 Everyone, except in deep sleep, his awareness is constantly moving. Sometimes this kind of awareness activity is like another person living in our minds, which is hard to be controlled by us. It jumped here for a moment, then jumped there, flowing like a stream, changing and uninterrupted. In fact, even in deep sleep, awareness is not interrupted, but rarely we are soberly aware, remember its content. In general, the flow of this kind of consciousness of mankind is not limited by time and space, and jumps from one thought to another without even a logical and causal relationship. American psychologists call this feature of consciousness “stream of consciousness ”. We usually said the inner activities, psychological activities, are such a back