"For me the primary interest in dreams and in making this film is this notion that your mind, while you are asleep, you can create an entire world that you are also experiencing without realizing that you're doing that.

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One possible explanation, the dualist, that's the ghost of your mother, immaterial soul that she is, communicating to you while you're asleep.

一个可能的解释,二元论者会说,那是你妈妈的鬼魂,她是一个非物质的灵魂,在你睡觉的时候跟你交流

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We might say, look, while you're asleep, it's true that you're not P-functioning.

我们可以说，看，当你睡着时，确实没有人格功能性。

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Well, not during those times, perhaps, when I'm dreaming while I'm asleep.

也许当中不包括，我在做梦的时候。

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Well, that's at least an improvement, because then we say, look, while you're asleep, even though there's no P-functioning going on, the lack of P-functioning is temporary, so you're still alive.

这至少算是个改进，因为我们能说，看，你睡着了，即便没有任何人格功能性发生，人格功能性的缺少是暂时的，就说明你还活着。

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Although it's not true that you are speaking French-- let's suppose that you know how to speak French-- it's still true of you while you're asleep that you can or could speak French.

虽然你并不在说法语-,先假设你会说法语-,但是确实在你睡觉时,你是有可能开口说法语的。

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