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How often have you longed to have time to just sit quietly and think? Well, be careful what you wish for. Because a study shows that many people find such interludes incredibly unpleasant. So uncomfortable, in fact, that they would rather zap themselves with electricity than be left alone with their thoughts. The shocking results appear in the journal Science.
你多久會想著花些時間靜靜地坐著冥想呢？那你可得小心了。有研究顯示：許多人對如此小憩感到非常不愉快。事實上，他們寧愿受點電刺激也不愿獨自冥想。這令人震驚的研究結果發表在科學期刊上。
In the experiment, participants were asked to sit alone in a room for up to 15 minutes-with no cell phone, no reading material, no music—so, nothing to entertain them, save their own rambling thoughts. Afterward, most subjects reported that they found it difficult to concentrate and that they did not enjoy the experience.
實驗中，參與者被要求獨自在一個房間里待15分鐘——房間里沒有手機，沒有讀物，沒有音樂——也就是說，除了參與者自己雜亂的思緒，沒有任何可以娛樂的東西。實驗結束后，大多數的參與者反饋說難以集中注意力，而且并不享受這一過程。
Then, to assess just how much subjects disliked doing nothing, the researchers repeated the experiment. Only this time they gave volunteers the added option of occasionally giving themselves a mild electric jolt. Two thirds of the men in the study—and one quarter of the women—chose to take advantage of the shock option at least once during their time out.
后來，研究人員又重新試驗了一遍，就不喜歡該試驗的人數進行了統計。但這次研究人員為志愿者新增了一項權利，即偶爾的輕微電刺激。該研究中，男性占了三分之二，試驗結束前，四分之一的女性至少提出過進行一次電刺激。
The results suggest that if there’s anything worse than losing your mind, it’s getting caught alone with it.
該研究結果表明：比發瘋更可怕的事便是獨自冥想。
