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You've probably been around the Internet long enough
你可能一直泡在上網，
to have stumbled upon one of those so-called "oddly satisfying" videos.
剛好發現了所謂的新奇的滿足視頻。
They're these ten-minute-long clips of some seriously weird stuff,
這些視頻是十分鐘長的片段，里面是些相當奇怪的內容，
like foam being cut into pieces, hands drawing perfect spirals, or machines slicing cheese.
比如，泡沫被切割成碎片、手畫完美的螺旋或機器切奶酪。
If you've never done it, you might be thinking there's no way you'd watch ten minutes of that,
如果你從來沒看過，可能會覺得自己不可能看10分鐘的這種視頻，
but these videos have millions of views,
但是它們有數百萬的點擊量，
and once you start watching them, you might find it kinda hard to stop.
而且你一旦開始看，就可能很難停止。
They're weirdly relaxing, and our brains love something about them.
它們出奇得輕松，我們的大腦會喜歡它們。
We're still waiting for someone to publish a peer-reviewed study on oddly satisfying videos.
我們還在等待有人發布一個經過同行評審的滿意視頻。
But in the meantime, there are a few connected ideas in psychology that might explain what's going on.
但與此同時，心理學上也有一些相關觀點可以解釋這是怎么回事。
One possibility is that watching these videos could be similar to mindfulness or flow.
一種可能性是觀看這些視頻可能類似于正念或心流。
You might've heard about mindfulness,
你們可能聽說過正念，
which involves focusing on the present moment and acknowledging and accepting your thoughts and feelings.
它包括關注當下，承認并接受你的想法和感受。
It's sometimes involved in meditation or yoga.
它有時也涉及冥想或瑜伽。
Flow is a little different, it's a state of creative concentration that happens when an activity is at just the right level of difficulty.
心流有點兒不同，它是一種全身心投入的狀態，當一項活動處于合適的難度水平時就會發生。
You feel in control of your actions, lose sense of time,
你感覺自己控制了行為，失去了時間感，
and enjoy what you're working on even if you aren't accomplishing a goal.
并且享受你正在做的事情，即使你沒有完成一個目標。
It's like an artist working on a painting or a writer caught up in their story
這就像一位藝術家專心創作一幅畫或者一位作家沉浸于他的故事中，
or a video blogger editing until late at night.
或者一個視頻博主編輯到深夜。
It's one of my favorite things about making videos.
這是我制作視頻最喜歡的的方法之一。
These videos might do something similar,
這些視頻可能也有類似效果，
because they grab our attention and make us lose our sense of time and the outside world.
因為它們吸引我們的注意力，讓我們失去時間感，忽略外部世界。
It's a great feeling.
這種感覺很棒。
It's not a perfect comparison, though,
不過，這并不是一個完美對比，
because mindfulness and flow are both characterized by deliberate action and control on our part,
因為正念和心流都是通過有意識的行動和控制來表現的，
and watching these videos is pretty passive.
而看這些視頻很被動。
So some psychologists think there's another explanation:
所以一些心理學家認為還有另一種解釋：
Watching a project get completed in these videos, like seeing someone perfectly frost a cake,
我們看到這些視頻中的一個項目完成時，比如看到某人完美的為蛋糕撒霜糖，
causes the same reaction in your brain as completing a goal in real life.
它在你大腦中引發的反應與你在現實生活中實現一個目標的反應相同。
When you finish a task, your brain releases dopamine,
你結束一個任務時，大腦會釋放多巴胺，
a chemical that plays an important role in your brain's reward and pleasure circuits.
它是一種化學物質，在你大腦的獎勵和快感回路中具有重要作用。
In other words, getting stuff done literally feels good.
換句話說，把事情完成讓人感覺良好。
And research also suggests that leaving things unfinished kinda drives us nuts.
研究還表明，沒有完成的事情會讓我們抓狂。
In a well-known study from 1927, 32 participants were given around 20 simple tasks,
在1927年的一項著名研究中，32名參與者被分配了20個簡單任務，
like solving puzzles and making figures out of clay.
比如填字謎，用粘土做圖形。
They were allowed to finish some of the tasks, but others they had to abandon halfway through.
他們都要完成一些任務，但必須中途放棄其他任務。
After they'd worked on everything, they were asked to list off the tasks they'd been given.
他們在完成所有任務后，被要求列出分配給自己的任務。
On average, they were almost twice as likely to remember something if they hadn't been allowed to finish it.
平均而言，他們記得的沒被允許完成的任務數量幾乎是允許完成任務數量的兩倍。
This idea that it's harder to forget about things we haven't finished,
這個想法是指我們更難忘記沒有完成的事情，
eventually became known as the Zeigarnik effect, named after the researcher who did these studies.
它最終成為了“蔡格尼克效應”，后者是以做這些研究的研究人員的名字命名的。
And it's been replicated in other research since then.
從那時起，它就被復制到了其他研究中。
So you could argue that oddly satisfying videos have to do with getting something just right or with finishing a task.
所以你可能會說，新奇的滿意視頻與合適的活動或者完成一項任務有關。
Stopping in the middle of one will bother us all day,
事情做一半會讓我們全天煩躁，
that's why it's so frustrating when a gif ends too soon.
這就是為什么一個gif動畫結束得太快時，會令人非常沮喪。
But watching something to the end triggers our sense of completion…
但是，看某樣東西最終會觸發我們如釋重負的感覺，
even though we're definitely not checking things off our to-do list as we watch them.
即使我們在看它時，絕對不會檢查我們的任務清單。
That explanation doesn't work for all satisfying videos, though.
不過，這一解釋并不適用于所有令人滿意的視頻。
Some of them are pretty random, like glass melting or things exploding.
有些視頻很隨機，比如玻璃熔化或爆炸。
So another possibility is that there's something more fundamental about the videos that we like.
因此，另一種可能性是我們喜歡的視頻有一些更基本的東西。
They tend to be geometric and colorful, so maybe those colors and shapes are appealing to us.
它們更具有幾何學和色彩，也許這些顏色和形狀對我們很有吸引力。
Psychologists still aren't sure which kinds of stimuli our brains prefer,
心理學家仍然不確定我們的大腦更喜歡哪種刺激，
or if there's even a universal set of preferences,
或者大腦是否有一套普遍偏好，
but we do know there are some features we tend to like better than others.
但是我們知道我們更喜歡某些特征。
No one knows exactly why, but there's a long history of research showing that
沒有人知道確切原因，但漫長的研究歷史證明，
we prefer curved lines and circles to angled lines and polygons.
與有角的線條和多邊形相比，我們更喜歡彎曲的線條和圓形。
And we definitely like symmetry.
我們肯定喜歡對稱。
We find it super attractive and use it to guesstimate a potential partner's ability to reproduce.
我們發現它非常有吸引力，并利用它來猜測潛在伴侶的繁殖能力。
We're also quick to spot it, and studies have shown we're better at remembering symmetrical objects and designs.
我們也很快發現，研究表明我們更擅長記住對稱的物體和設計。
We're really into patterns, too.
我們也真得喜歡模式。
Some researchers argue that extreme pattern recognition is one of the defining capabilities of our brains,
一些研究人員認為，極端模式識別是我們大腦的定義能力之一，
and that it developed as our brains evolved.
而且它隨我們大腦的進化而發展。
So maybe the kinds of symmetrical, repetitive motions in oddly satisfying videos are the patterns our brains like.
所以，也許在令人稱奇的視頻中，對稱重復的動作是我們大腦的模式。
But again, we don't know for sure.
但是再說一次，我們還不確定。
None of these ideas are perfect explanations,
這些想法都不是完美的解釋，
they're just things we know about our brains that could be involved somehow.
它們只是我們知道的可能涉及大腦的知識。
All we know for sure is that millions of people agree that
我們所知道的是，數百萬人都同意，
there's something about these videos that makes them oddly satisfying to watch.
這些視頻中有一些東西能出奇地滿足觀看。
So, even if you can't get no satisfaction about why these videos tickle your brain so good,
所以，即使你不滿意這些視頻為什么會讓你的大腦如此興奮，
you can get a whole bunch of it just watching them.
你得到的大堆結果只是，觀看它們。
And now, if you'll excuse me, I'm gonna go watch a machine knead silicone over and over.
現在，如果你不介意的話，我要去一遍一遍地看機器揉硅膠了。
Couldn't put the clip in the video for you to watch, because that would be stealing.
我不能給你看這段視頻，因為你會偷它。
So, you have to go watch it too.
所以你也去看吧。
Or you could stick with us here at SciShow Psych and learn more weird things about the internet,
或者你可以點擊心理科學秀，與我們一起學習更多關于互聯網的奇怪事情，
like this video right here about what makes a meme go viral.
比如這個視頻，它是關于“什么讓一個模因在網上走紅的”。
