一詞：人腦真的超奇怪：用這個簡單的辦法，就能讓自己產生幻覺
malfunction [mæl'fʌŋ(k)ʃ(ə)n]
n. 故障，功能障礙；失靈
圖片來源：視覺中國
The human brain is a remarkable thing.
人類的大腦是一件奇特的東西。
It can do things our primate relatives are thousands - maybe even millions - of years of evolution away from, and our most complex machines are not even close to competing with our powers of higher consciousness and ingenuity.
人腦能完成未經歷上千年，甚至也許是數百萬年進化的靈長類親戚不能完成的事情。並且我們最複雜的機器都遠遠不能與我們的高等意識和創造力競爭。
And, oddly enough, even without any injuries or structural malfunctions, the human brain can get weird all by itself - turns out, it's surprisingly easy to trick it into seeing and hearing things that aren't actually there.
並且，很奇怪的是，即使沒有任何損傷或者結構性的功能障礙，人腦依舊可以自己變得奇怪。結果是，非常容易欺騙大腦，讓它看到聽到實際上不存在的東西。
As demonstrated by the guys in this 2016 Scam Nation video on YouTube, if you create a situation of intense sensory deprivation using some common household objects, you can induce some really strong hallucinations that mess with both your sense of sight and sound.
就像YouTube網上2016詐騙國家中的那些傢伙展示的那樣，如果你用常見的家庭用品製造一個強烈的視覺剝奪環境，那你可以引發一些十分強烈的幻覺，欺騙你的視覺和聽覺。
視頻網址：
You're going to need:
你將需要：
Sheets of light, white paper
Cotton padding
Rubber bands
Stationery, including scissors, tape, a stapler, and string
A YouTube video of old television white noise or static that runs uninterrupted for at least 30 minutes
Noise-cancelling headphones
輕薄的白紙
棉墊
橡皮筋
文具，包括剪刀、膠帶、訂書機和繩子。
一段YouTube視頻，內容是舊電視的白噪音或者靜電噪音，不間斷播放30分鐘。
The effects usually start to show after about 10 to 30 minutes.
通常10到30分鐘就會開始起效。
After 20 minutes, the Scam Nation guys reported seeing "blooms of colour" - like those you see when you rub your eyelids - that would soon form shapes, such as dinosaur silhouettes, jellyfish, and the Eye of Sauron.
20分鐘後，詐騙國家的傢伙們報告看到了“顏色綻放”，就像你揉眼睛的時候看到的那樣，還很快會形成形狀，比如恐龍的剪影、水母，以及索倫之眼。
One heard screams, and the other heard laughter.
有人聽到了尖叫，其他人聽到了笑聲。
Sounds like nonsense? Well, sure, we have to take the word of two dudes on YouTube for this particular scenario, but what they're doing actually follows the principles of a scientific phenomenon known as the Ganzfeld effect.
聽起來像是胡說八道。嗯，當然，我們得從YouTube上摘取兩個傢伙的有關這一特殊場景的話，但是他們正在做的事情遵循叫做甘茨菲爾德效應的科學現象的原則。
The Ganzfeld effect describes how when you're exposed to "an unstructured, uniform stimulation field" - such as seeing blackness and hearing constant television static - your brain responds by amplifying neural noise in an effort to find missing visual signals.
甘茨菲爾德效應描述了當你暴露在"紊亂的、統一的刺激場下”，比如看到黑暗並聽到持續的電視靜電噪音，你的大腦將通過放大神經噪音來找到缺失的視覺信號做出何種反應。
This can result in both visual and aural hallucinations like the guys in the video describe.
這可能導致視覺和聽覺上的幻覺，就像錄像裏的傢伙描述的那樣。
Of course, every person will experience the effect in different ways.
當然，每個人體驗這種效應的方式都不一樣。
今日詞彙
malfunction [mæl'fʌŋ(k)ʃ(ə)n]
n. 故障，功能障礙；失靈
這個詞的構成是mal+function：
前綴mal-，表示“壞的”；function，n. 功能
a technical malfunction 技術故障
In some cases, the malfunction caused cars to speed uncontrollably.
在幾個案例中, 該故障導致汽車突然加速.
