我的梦中情人(The Woman Of My Dreams)

24EN Editor"s Note：We all know that experience:some exquisite,beautiful dream, into which the alarm clock suddenly and rudely intrudes.We wake up, and our day begins. 
  
我们都有这样的经历：正沉浸在美得冒泡的梦里，突然，闹钟响了，我们清醒了，一天就这样开始。

Or does it?    
事情真的是这样吗?

Can you in fact be sure that you"re not dreaming   right now—that you haven"t been dreaming your entire life? This is not merely a sleepy philosophers" question. For if you can"t be sure you haven"t been dreaming, then how can you be sure that anything you believe about the world is true?    
你是不是百分百肯定自己此刻不是在做梦-----你肯定这一生都不是在梦里?这不仅仅是一个神游的哲学家的困惑.因为如果你不能肯定自己不是在梦中,又如何相信你生活的世界是真实的存在?

Could you pinch yourself? Well, you could. But then how would you know that you didn"t just dream the pinch itself and then transition into a different dream?    
狠狠掐一下自己?当然你可以这样做.可是,转念一想,这一掐会不会也是个梦境,接下来的一切不过是另一个梦境?

Indeed I once decided to keep a log of my dreams. I quickly found that on waking I couldn"t remember the dreams I"d had earlier in the night, so I started waking up during the night to write them down.A few nights of this interrupted sleep and I was exhausted! So my body (or mind) got the better of me: I woke up one morning to discover that my notebook was actually empty.I had only dreamed I had woken up to write down my dreams! 
其实,我曾经下决心记住许多梦,可是我很快发现,醒来后就压根记不起晚上梦的内容.于是,我试着在晚上梦醒后强迫自己起床用笔将它记下来.经过这样的几个晚上,我被折腾得精疲力尽.接下来我的身体(或意识)跟我开了个玩笑:一天早晨,我起床后发现笔记本上一片空白,我梦见自己醒来,梦见自己记下了梦境!
  
At that point I knew I was defeated. But I also knew I had a deep problem. I am positive, right now, 100%, that I am awake and writing this. I’m also positive,right now,100%,that I have a wife,that I have a physical body,and that other physical objects exist,because I perceive all these things. But then again I was equally positive during my failed experiment that I was awake and writing down dreams. And look how far that got me.Could it be,then,that nearly everything I believe about the world is false? That even my lovely, lovely wife is only literally the woman of my dreams? 更多信息请访问：http://www.24en.com/
那一刻我知道自己被骗了,但同时我也知道我碰到个深刻的问题.此刻,我百分百确定,我是清醒的,并写下这些文字,我还百分百确定,我有个妻子,有个真真切切存在的身体,还有许多我能察觉到的物体客观存在.可是同时,在那个夜里醒来记录梦境的失败实验中,我同样百分百地肯定那不是梦.这个疑问深深困扰着我.有没有可能这个世界上我所相信的一切都是梦境?甚至我亲爱的妻子其实只是我的梦中情人?

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