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So Luke, for our next psychology assignment we have to do something on sleep and dreams.
卢克，我们需要为下一个心理学的作业做一些关于睡眠和梦的研究。
Right. I've just read an article suggesting why we tend to forget most of our dreams soon after we wake up.
好的。我刚刚读了一篇文章，其中提到了我们在醒来后很快就会忘记大部分梦的原因。
I mean, most of my dreams aren't that interesting anyway, but what it said was that if we remembered everything, we might get mixed up about what actually happened and what we dreamed.
我的意思是，虽然大多数梦不那么有趣，但这篇文章强调如果我们记住了一切，我们可能会混淆实际发生的事情和我们做的梦。
So it's a sort of protection. I hadn't heard that idea before.
所以这是一种保护。我以前从来没有听说过这种观点。
I'd always assumed that it was just that we didn't have room in our memories for all that stuff.
我一直以为这只是因为我们的记忆没有足够的空间能够记住所有的事情。
Me too. What do you think about the idea that our dreams may predict the future?
我也是。关于梦境也许能够预测未来的说法你有什么看法？
It's a belief that you get all over the world.
全世界都有这种看法。
Yeah, lots of people have a story of it happening to them, but the explanation I've read is that for each dream that comes true, we have thousands that don't, but we don't notice those, we don't even remember them.
是的，很多人都有这种梦境发生在他们身上的经历，但我读到的解释是，有一个梦境成真，就有数千个梦境没有成真，但我们没有注意到这些，我们甚至都不记得那些梦。
We just remember the ones where something in the real world, like a view or an action, happens to trigger a dream memory.
那些在现实世界中发生的事情，比如一个观点或一个动作，碰巧触发了一个梦境的记忆，我们只会记住这样的梦境。
Right. So it's just a coincidence really. Something else I read about is what they call segmented sleeping.
没错。所以这真的只是巧合。我读到的另一个内容是有关分段睡眠的。
That's a theory that hundreds of years ago, people used to get up in the middle of the night and have a chat or something to eat, then go back to bed. So I tried it myself.
该理论的内容是，数百年前，人们习惯于在半夜起床聊天或吃点东西，然后回到床上。所以我亲自试了试。
Why?
为什么？
Well it's meant to make you more creative. I don't know why.
这能让你变得更有创造力。我也不知道原因。
But I gave it up after a week. It just didn't fit in with my lifestyle.
但一周后我就放弃了。这不符合我的生活方式。
But most pre-school children have a short sleep in the day don't they?
但是大多数学龄前儿童白天的睡眠时间很短，不是吗？
There was an experiment some students did here last term to see at what age kids should stop having naps.
上个学期，一些学生在这里做了一项实验，看看孩子们应该在什么年龄停止小睡。
But they didn't really find an answer. They spent a lot of time working out the most appropriate methodology, but the results didn't seem to show any obvious patterns.
但他们并没有真正找到答案。他们花了很多时间研究出最合适的方法，但结果似乎没有显示出任何明显的模式。
Right. Anyway, let's think about our assignment. Last time I had problems with the final stage, where we had to describe and justify how successful we thought we'd been.
好吧。不管怎样，让我们思考一下我们的作业吧。上一次我在最后阶段遇到了问题，我们必须描述和证明我们预计的成果。
I struggled a bit with the action plan too.
我在行动方案上也遇到了一些困难。
I was OK with the planning, but I got marked down for the self-assessment as well.
我的方案还好，但自我评估被扣了分。
And I had big problems with the statistical stuff, that's where I really lost marks.
我在统计方面也遇到了很大的问题，这就是我丢了很多分的地方。
Right.
没错。
