點亮生命的故事—enlightening stories

睡眠有理，再添一記/One more reason to get a good night's sleep 中英逐字稿： 00:04 睡眠 用掉我們生命整整 1/3 的時間。 但是有誰真正了解睡眠呢？ Sleep. It's something we spend about a third of our lives doing, but do any of us really understand what it's all about? 00:12 兩千年前，蓋倫， 古代數一數二的醫學專家， 認為我們醒著的時候 大腦的動力—腦汁， 會流出腦外，流到全身各部位 活絡全身， 但是讓大腦枯竭。 蓋倫認為當我們睡著， 身體的汁液 會流灌回大腦， 重新濕潤大腦， 使大腦甦活。 現在我們覺得這個看法很荒唐， 但蓋倫只是想解釋睡眠現象， 是我們每天都在面對的。 我們憑經驗都知道 睡眠會清理我們的頭腦。 不睡覺， 頭腦會變得昏昏沉沉。 我們現在雖然更認識睡眠， 比蓋倫的時代更了解， 但是我們還是搞不懂 為什麼所有人體活動中， 睡眠獨具這種奇妙的修復大腦功能。 Two thousand years ago, Galen, one of the most prominent medical researchers of the ancient world, proposed that while we're awake, our brain's motive force, its juice, would flow out to all the other parts of the body, animating them but leaving the brain all dried up, and he thought that when we sleep, all this moisture that filled the rest of the body would come rushing back, rehydrating the brain and refreshing the mind. Now, that sounds completely ridiculous to us now, but Galen was simply ...