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WLLIAM MILLER, PHD, emeritus professor of psychology and psychiatry at an the University of New Mexico,
新墨西哥大學心理學和精神病學名譽教授威廉·米勒，
interviewed people who had experienced sudden realizations that led to life transformations.
采訪了那些因為突然的意識而導致生活轉變的人。
Most of the triggers were not so dramatic, he reported in his coauthored book Quantum Change.
他在合著的《量子變化》一書中寫道，大多數誘因都不那么戲劇性。
People experienced moments of sudden realizations and life transformations while walking to a nightclub, cleaning a toilet, watching TV, lying in bed, and preparing to shower.
人們在去夜總會、打掃廁所、看電視、躺在床上、準備淋浴的過程中經歷了突然實現和生活轉變的時刻。
They reported a striking similarity, however, in how the moments felt:
然而，他們聲稱在這些瞬間的感受上有著驚人的相似：
more like a message revealed to them from outside than something their own minds had ginned up.
這些信息更像是外界透露給他們，而非他們腦海中靈光乍現。
It felt foreign, mystical even. Which may explain why so many historical accounts of revelations have been interpreted as communications from the divine.
它給人的感覺是陌生甚至是神秘的。這也許可以解釋，為什么這么多關于啟示的歷史記載被解釋為來自于神。
In more recent years, studies of the neuroscience of insight have begun to give us clues to what they really are.
近年來，對神經科學的研究已經開始給我們提供線索，讓我們了解它們究竟是什么。
In 2003, Mark Beeman, PhD, a cognitive neuroscientist, presented people with a series of brainteasers in his lab at Northwestern University.
2003年，認知神經學家馬克·比曼博士在西北大學的實驗室里向人們展示了一系列的腦筋急轉彎。
The test he used, called the "remote associates test," is designed to produce leaps of thought.
他使用的測試被稱為“聯想測試”，旨在產生思維跳躍。
It asks subjects to provide the missing link among three seemingly unrelated words—say, pine, sauce, and tree.
它要求受試者提供三個看似不相關的單詞，例如，松樹、醬油和樹之間缺失的鏈接。
(People sometimes exclaim "Aha!" when the word apple pops to mind.)
人們想到“蘋果”這個詞時有時會驚呼“啊哈！”
