(单词翻译:单击)
We all spend roughly a third of our lives asleep,
我们一生有大约三分之一的时间都在睡觉,
accessing dream worlds in our subconscious that are lost by the time we wake up.
进入潜意识中的梦境,而这些梦境在我们醒来时已经消失了 。
But what if they didn’t have to be?
但假如它们不必在我们醒来时就消失呢?
What about if we could modify sleep stages, or how about if we could guide dreams?
假如我们可以调整睡眠阶段,引导梦境呢?
Improving our well-being, using it for learning, or solve, things like biases or anxieties...
用来增强我们的幸福感,用来学习或解决偏见或焦虑之类的问题呢……
so how can we create technologies that can deal with that?
问题是,我们怎样才能创造出能够解决这个问题的技术 。
Judith Amores and the engineers, neuroscientists, and designers she works with at MIT’s media lab, dubbed "the dream team"
(事实上)麻省理工学院媒体实验室的朱迪思·阿莫斯和她的工程师、神经科学家和设计师同事,又名“梦之队”,
are working to decode the unconscious mind.
就已经在努力解码我们的潜意识了 。
But these are no ordinary sleep scientists.
但他们并不是普通的睡眠科学家 。
They don’t just want to understand the role that sleep and dreams can play in our lives;
他们想研究的也不止是睡眠和梦在我们生活中扮演的角色;
they think we can actually tinker with it.
他们认为,我们是可以修补我们的梦境的 。
Dreams are kind of our own virtual reality.
梦境也可以说成是一种虚拟现实 。
It's very interesting how some people have been applying that for thinking of their traumas or phobias,
有趣的是,有些人就是用梦来思考他们的创伤或恐惧症的,
because you can actually fight against those in a dream,
因为你是可以在梦中与这些问题对抗的,
because you know it's not real, but still it's having an effect on you.
因为你知道梦(虽然)不是真的,但还是能影响到我们 。
Sleep has long been recognized not only for being therapeutic, but also a source of inspiration.
长期以来,人们都认为睡眠不仅具有治疗作用,也是灵感的来源 。
Visionaries like Nikola Tesla have used hypnagogia, the state of being half asleep,
尼古拉·特斯拉等颇有远见之人就曾利用“半梦半醒”,也即半睡眠的状态,
to doze their way to some of the world’s most iconic art and inventions.
在似睡非睡之际创作出世界上最具标志性的艺术和发明 。
Hypnagogia has been associated to creativity and also problem solving.
人们将“半梦半醒”和创造力,解决问题联系到了一起 。
For example, Salvador Dali used to have these crazy surrealism paintings, beautiful.
比如,萨尔瓦多·达利曾经画过这种疯狂的超现实主义画作,确实很漂亮 。
So he actually used this state as an inspiration.
而他就是用这个状态作为灵感来源的 。
Thomas Edison as well.
托马斯·爱迪生也不例外 。
I think the song "Yesterday" by the Beatles was also created in a dream.
而且,再我看来,披头士的那首《昨天》也是在梦里创作出来的 。
To harness this potential,
为了利用这种潜力,
The dream team is exploring the world of ‘human-machine symbiosis...’
“梦之队”正在对“人机共生”的世界——
that is, designing technology intended for seamless integration into your life...and your body.
也就是设计出旨在无缝融入您的生活……和你的身体的技术的世界——展开探索 。
And if that sounds straight out of sci-fi…It is.
觉得这听起来很科幻?科幻就对了 。
The dream team recently debuted dormio, a glove designed to boost creativity.
该研究团队最近推出了“多米奥”——一款旨在激发创造力的手套 。
Dormio recognizes a hypnagogic state,
“多米奥”能够识别半睡半醒的状态,
triggers a robotic voice to read you an audio cue or creative prompt in your sleep, and records your mumbled response.
在你入睡后触发机械的声音,给你读一段音频提示或激发你创造力的提示,然后记录下你含糊不清的回应 。
It started as a, actually as a glove,
一开始它就是个手套,
like a quick hack with a capacitive sensor that would detect when you're falling into hypnagogia.
类似于带有电容式传感器,能够检测出你什么时候进入半睡半醒状态的一个快速检测装置 。
Then they added more sensors to really make it more accurate, and more beautiful as well.
后来,他们给它增加了更多的传感器,使其变得更精确也更漂亮 。
So it was not like a glove anymore,
这时,它就已经不再像个手套,
but it was more like a really cool, kind of sci-fi, neon-style, finger-worn device.
而是更接近于一个非常酷,有点科幻又有点儿霓虹灯风格,只需要戴在手指上的设备了 。
But what about our sleep states beyond hypnagogia?
但除了半睡半醒,我们剩下的睡眠时间(能不能加以调控)呢?
The dream team is developing additional prototypes to analyze even more of your body’s biological cues.
“梦之队”也已经在研发能够分析人体更多的生物信息的模型了 。
A deep learning computer model then deciphers this information to determine what stage of sleep a person is in.
之后,深度学习的计算机模型会破译这些信息,确定一个人处于睡眠的哪个阶段 。
So REM is R-E-M, which is Rapid Eye Movement.
REM,也就是R-E-M,快速眼动睡眠 。
And then, that's the typical one where you have vivid dreams, like movie kind of dreams.
也就是典型的那种梦境特别真实,就像电影一样的梦的阶段 。
You can actually be aware that that's a dream,
你甚至能够意识到你是在做梦,
and then it's what some people call "lucid dreaming."
再然后就是某些人所谓的“清醒梦”阶段 。
The non-REM, we can separate that into three sleep states: N1, N2 and N3.
我们可以将非快速眼动睡眠阶段进一步细分为N1,N2,N3三种阶段 。
N3 is particularly one that I'm very interested in because it's associated with memory consolidation.
我尤其感兴趣的是N3这个阶段,因为它与记忆加强有关 。