Another theory says that the stress of having to pay constant attention to survive leads to Third Man hallucinations.

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It's about a five-minute segment from the film called The Third Man.

这是一支约五分钟的短片,摘自名为《黑狱亡魂》的电影。

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So here comes The Third Man.

所以片名原文才取作，“第三人。

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It is from this line of poetry about Shackleton that the Third Man syndrome takes its name.

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And that you might look at, for example, that first example, and say, man by this stage it was already sorted, yet it had to go through and check that the third element was in the right place, and then the fourth and then the fifth and then the six.

你可能会去看看例如第一个例子，然后要抱怨，到这里,它已经是排好序的了,但他还是得去遍历查看,第三个元素是不是在正确的位置,然后第四个，第五个，第六个。

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John Geiger says that many people who experience the Third Man explain it as a religious experience.

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One thinks, in a way, of Welles' line in The Third Man : when he looks down from above and says, "If I gave you 20,000 pounds for every dot that stopped moving, "? would you really tell me to keep my money?"

从某一层面看来，可以假想，Welles，在《黑狱亡魂》中的台词,当他从高处往下看并说，“如果你干掉一个在下面走动的人,我就给你，20，000，英镑，你拒绝得了吗“

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He says his experiences made him want to learn about Third Man examples among other explorers.

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John Geiger points out that these Third Man experiences are very common among mountain climbers.

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Researchers in Switzerland were able to recreate a Third Man experience in a laboratory setting.

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But he is more interested in exploring the science behind the Third Man.

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Geiger discusses several conditions that seem to produce Third Man experiences.

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People understand that there is this phenomenon, the Third Man Factor.

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Other stressful conditions can lead to Third Man experiences.

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The Canadian-American writer John Geiger wrote about this in a recent book called The Third Man Factor. The book will soon be published in several languages, including Chinese, Korean and Japanese.

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The third man escaped death.

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It doesnt matter whether they are at great elevation or at sea level. John Geiger suggests that the brains effort to create a Third Man is not an accident of human brain structure, or a sign of injury in extreme conditions.

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That seems to me to be a fairly out-there proposition. And yet, the evidence is so overwhelming, that really nobody has surfaced to suggest that indeed this does not happen. John Geiger says there is a wide acceptance of the Third Man experience among the scientific community and the general public.

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