SUSIE: So Luke, for our next psychology assignment we have to do something on sleep and dreams.

苏西：卢克，我们需要为了下一个心理学的作业做一些关于睡眠和做梦的研究。

LUKE: Right. I've just read an article suggesting why we tend to forget most of our dreams soon after we wake up.

卢克：好的。我刚读了一篇文章，其中提到为什么我们醒来后很快就会忘记大部分的梦。

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，反正大部分的梦也不是那么有趣。但是文章强调如果我们什么都记得，我们可能会混淆实际发生的事情和我们的梦境。

So it's a sort of protection. I hadn't heard that idea before.

这也是一种保护。我之前从没有听过这种观点。

I'd always assumed that it was just that we didn't have room in our memories for all that stuff.

我一直以为我们的记忆没有那么大的空间能够记住所有的事情。

SUSIE: Me too. What do you think about the idea that our dreams may predict the future?

苏西：我也是。关于我们的梦境也许能够预见未来的说法你怎么看？

LUKE: It's a belief that you get all over the world.

卢克：全世界都有这种看法。

SUSIE: 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.

苏西：是的，很多人都有这种梦境发生在他们自己身上的经历。但是我读到的解释是有一个梦境成真，就有几千个梦境不能实现。但是我们根本不会注意到，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.

那些在现实世界中的事情，比如一个观点或一个动作，碰巧触发了一个梦的记忆，我们只会记住这样的梦境。

LUKE: Right. So it's just a coincidence really.

卢克：是的。所以这真的只是巧合。

Something else I read about is what they call segmented sleeping.

我读到的另一篇文章是关于分段睡眠的。

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.

这是一种理论，几百年前，人们习惯于半夜起床聊天或吃点东西，然后回到床上。所以我自己也尝试了一下。

SUSIE: Why?

苏西：为什么？

LUKE: Well it's meant to make you more creative.

卢克：这能让你变得更有创造力。

I don't know why. But I gave it up after a week.

我不知道原因是什么，但是一周之后我就放弃了。

It just didn't fit in with my lifestyle.

这不符合我的生活方式。

SUSIE: But most pre-school children have a short sleep in the day don't they?

苏西：但大多数学龄前儿童白天都睡得很短，不是吗？

There was an experiment some students did here last term to see at what age kids should stop having naps.

上学期，一些学生在这里做了一个实验，看看孩子们应该在什么年龄停止小睡。

But they didn't really find an answer.

然后他们没能真正地回答这个问题。

They spent a lot of time working out the most appropriate methodology, but the results didn't seem to show any obvious patterns.

他们花了大把的时间研究出最合适的测试方法，但结果似乎没有显示任何明显的规律。

LUKE: Right. Anyway, let's think about our assignment.

卢克：无论如何，来思考一下我们的作业吧。

Last time I had problems with the final stage, where we had to describe and justify how successful we thought we'd been.

上一次我在最后阶段遇到了问题，在这一阶段，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.

我在行动方案上也有些纠结。

SUSIE: I was OK with the planning, but I got marked down for the self-assessment as well.

苏西：我的设计还好，但是我的自我评估被扣了分。

And I had big problems with the statistical stuff, that's where I really lost marks.

我在数据上也遇到了大麻烦，真的丢了很多分。

LUKE: Right.

卢克：是的。