《似梦人生》是梁晓声的人生自传体散文，是他梳理出来的人生轨迹。收入本书的散文，大都是以个人成长方面的内容为主。少年、青年、中年、老年一曲人生漫漫的节奏曲。这些片段多少能折射出时代演进的细枝末节。这也是他记录下这些片段的初衷。全书一条轨迹下来，勾画出梁晓声一张完整的人生简历。
对较多数已经是作家的人来说，通往文学目标的道路用写满字迹的稿纸铺垫。
这条道路不是百米赛跑，是漫长的"马拉松"，是必须步步进行的竞走。这也是一条时时充满了自然淘汰现象的道路。缺少耐力，缺少信心，缺少不断进取精神的人，缺少在某一时期内自甘寂寞的勇气的人，即使"一举成名"，声名鹊起，也可能"昙花一现"。始终"竞走"在文学道路上的大抵是些"苦行僧"。在时代与人的这一种互应关系中，时代与人各得其所。时代以它宽容的姿态获得了它本身的丰富多彩和积极豁达，而人以胸中有数的自控尺度获得了张扬天性的权利和益处。（Like a Dream Life is Liang Xiaosheng's life autobiographical essay, which is the trajectory of life he combs out.The contents of the essays included in this book are mostly based on his personal growth.Together, Juvenile, youth, middle age, and old age compose a rhythm of music of his long lifetime.How many of these fragments can reflect the minutiae of the passage of times.This is also his original intention with which he records these fragments.The entire book follows the same track, outlining a complete life resume of Liang Xiaosheng.
For the majority of those who have already been writers, their way to literary goals is paved with manuscripts full of handwriting.
This way is not a 100-meter race but a long "marathon". It is a walking race that must be finished step by step.This is also a road full of natural elimination.For people who are lack of endurance, confidence, and entrepreneurial spirit and those who are lack of courage and content to lonely in a period, they might be a flash in the pan, even if they achieve instant fame or rise to fame.People who are always "walking" on the road of literature probably are "ascetics".In this reciprocal relationship between the times and people, the times and people have their own place.With its permissive attitude, the times gain its own richness, positiveness and open-mindedness, while people gained the rights and benefits of making their nature widely known with their self-control scale that they know fairly well.）