双语　篮球梦　Ethan Strauss

傅婧英

“I would wake up reaching my hands up to catch a passe，”Steve Kerr recalls.

“睡醒时我甚至会伸出手去接传球。”史蒂夫·科尔回忆。

His playing days are long gone，but that memory remains.His training soembedded itself in Kerrs psyche that it seeped into his sleep.He was practicing in the subconscious，playing in the fog of mind，preparing for time when hed be as open as his eyes.Hes not unusual，in this respect.

他的球員时代早已成为历史，但记忆犹在。训练在科尔的内心深处打下了深深的烙印，甚至潜入了他的睡眠。潜意识里他在训练，他在思维的迷雾中打球，为睡醒后的世界做着准备。从这个角度说，科尔并不是一个人。

This is common for basketball players and athletes in general.Hoop dreams are real.

这是篮球运动员和运动员的普遍问题。篮球梦是真的。

“Fixation”wtuch debuted in 2013，was an artfully simple Gatorade commercial.Kevin Durant，then of the Thunder，drives down the lane only to be rejected at the rim by Dwyane Wade，then with the Heat.Durant wakes up from this nightmare with a gasp，goes on a training binge，and，in a play similar to the one in his nightmare，finally dunks over Wade.Wade wakes up from this nightmare，with a gasp，starting the process anew.

2013年的Fixation（执念）是佳得乐推出的一款简单而又充满艺术气息的广告。当时还是雷霆球员的凯文·杜兰特持球突破，却在篮下遭到当时在热火效力的德维恩·韦德的封盖。杜兰特倒吸一口气从噩梦中惊醒，拼命训练，然后做了和在噩梦中相似的动作，不过终于在韦德头上完成扣篮。韦德倒吸一口凉气从噩梦中惊醒，开始了一段轮回。

Was this commercialized art imitating life？

这段广告是对人生的艺术模仿吗？

“I dream about basketball at night sometimes，” Durant said.Its a bit different from the commercial though.“random” in Durants telling.

“有时候我晚上会梦到篮球。”杜兰特说。但他说和广告里不太一样，都是“很随意的场景”。

The ads implication is that dreams，even bad ones，can inspire greatness.Such dreams have a habit of touching reality.

这个广告暗示，即便是噩梦也能激发出伟大。这样的广告确实有触及现实的习惯。

Though many players dream about basketball，many have also never discussed this publicly，or it seems，never been asked about this subject.Andre Iguodala has talked about sleep frequently，but rarely，if ever，dreams.

尽管很多球员梦到过篮球，但很多人同样不会公开讨论这个话题;或者说，似乎没有人问过这个问题。安德烈·伊戈达拉经常谈起睡觉的话题，但是“梦”这个话题却极少出现。

“You be In the game，it be intense，”Iguodala starts.“Like，wining the championship.I had that dream a couple times，like ′oh shit！”

“你在打比赛，比赛很激烈。”伊戈达拉说，“比如说赢总冠军。我做过几次那样的梦，我心想，‘妈的！”

According to Iguodala.he dreamt of the Warriors winning the championship before it actually happened.Winning didnt stop the dreams，though.

按照伊戈达拉的说法，在勇士赢下总冠军前，他就做过球队夺冠的梦。不过真正赢下总冠军并没有让梦停下来。

“It happens like once or twice a year，”Iguodala says.

“每年会发生一两次。”伊戈达拉说。

Iguodala is an evangelist for sleep.having joined Arianna Huffington in public talks about her book，“The Sleep Revolution.”he NBA is in something of its own sleep revolution，with many teams now awake to the benefits of slumber.In sports，everyone is looking for an edge，a new way of seeing or understanding the game.So much territory has been trod，whether by motion tracking CalTlera or statistical formulation.

伊戈达拉是睡眠的大力提倡者，他加入阿里安娜·赫芬顿，公开讨论后者《睡觉革命》这本书。NBA某种程度上也在进行自己的睡眠革命，很多球队意识到了睡眠的好处。在体育界，每个人都在寻找一丝一毫的优势，寻找观看或理解比赛的新角度。人们尝试了越来越多的领域，无论是动态捕捉相机还是数据公式。

Sleep is，perhaps，the legal PEn with the most untapped potential.If teams can successfully hack sleep，they unlock amethod for enhancing performance，recovery，mitigating injury risk，and yes，even raising their playerstestosterone levels.

睡眠，可能是拥有最大开发潜力的合法兴奋剂。如果球队能成功开发睡眠，他们就能解锁提升球场表现，康复，减少伤病风险的方法，没错，甚至还能提高球员的睾酮水平。

The NBA is not so obsessed with dreams.Dreams are just wacky byproducts of sleep，internal ramblings concurrent with the real restorative process.Teams likely value these absurd brain doodles about as much as theyd value the conversations players have in the cold tub.Maybe youre talking to a dead relative，maybe youre the King of France，maybe youre shooting a 3-pointer.In the end.what does it matter？

NBA對“梦”非常执迷。梦只是睡眠古怪的副产品，是在自我修复环节中内心促生的杂念。球队有可能重视这些大脑产生的奇怪想法，就像他们重视球员在冰浴时的交谈一样。也许你在和一个去世的亲人说话，也许你是法国国王，也许你在投三分。归根结底，这能有多重要呢？

Based on new research，it can matter immensely.Dreams might be as essential as they are florid.Like Iguodala on the floor，they serve as the connective tissue between otherwise separate actors.

Dr.Matthew P.Walker.professor of neuroscience and psychology at the University of California，Berkeley，has emerged as one of the worlds foremost experts on sleep.While he is more than happy to regale listeners with research on sleeps underrated impertance in day-to-day well being，his statements on dreams specifically have also drawn considerable interest.Walkers dream-heavy April conversation with comedian andpodcast host Joe Rogan was widely shared，drawing over 1.7 million views on YouTube.

根据最新研究，意义非常重大。梦的实质意义也许和它的华丽不相上下。和球场上的伊戈达拉一样，它们就是将独立的个体连接在一起的组织。马修·P·沃克博士是加州大学伯克利分校的神经学及心理学教授，他已经成为全球睡眠领域的顶尖专家。尽管他很愿意向听众讲解睡眠对人们日常健康被低估的重要作用，但他对梦的态度同样引起了不小的兴趣。沃克四月与喜剧演员，播客主播乔·罗根有关梦的对话得到了广泛传播，在YouTube上获得了170万点击。

When asked if these basketball dreams NBA players experience are merely byproducts of playing the sport，or whether they serve a utility，Walker said.“It seems to serve a utility and we know this from，now，experimental data：”

当被问到NBA球员的篮球梦究竟是打篮球的副产品还是真有作用，沃克表示：“看上去是有作用的，现在从实验数据上我们知道了这一点。”

Increasingly，it appears that dreams themselves have a hand in a players journey to greatness，and not just in the metaphorical，aspirational sense of having a“dream.”

越来越明确的是，梦本身在球员走向伟大之路上确实起到了作用;这并非拥有“梦想”这么一个比喻性，激励性的说法。

Walker said：“There are anecdotes，but the experimental evidenceis now starting to come online.We know that sleep，and particularly what we call rapid eye movement sleep or REM sleep，which is the stage from which most dreams come from，that type of sleep Seems to help memory in a slightly different way than deep non-dreaming sleep.Deep non-dreaming sleep essentially takes new facts that yourve learned and will hit the‘savebutton on them so that you dont forget.So，it cements individual memories into the brain.What REM sleep then seems to come along and do，is actually interconnect and associate those memories together.Both new information related，but also associated with all of the back catalog information that youve stored up.That means that you wake up with essentially a revised lined-wide bevy of associations，as it were.”

沃克說：“有一些趣闻，但现在开始有实验证据出现了。我们知道，睡眠，特别是快速眼动睡眠，也就是梦发生的阶段，和无梦的深度睡眠相比对记忆的帮助有所区别。无梦深度睡眠本质上对你学到的新东西按下‘储存键，这样你就不会忘记。也就是说，将个体记忆固化下来。而快速眼动睡眠实际上将这些记忆互相连接在了一起。新信息互相关联，但同样也和你存储起来的旧信息有联系。这意味着你睡醒时大脑中存在大量全新的关联信息。”

This blending of information matters for all of us，but especially to those of us who are training for something.To be an athlete is to constantly incorporate and perform new information.The dream state erasesthe borders between learned information and everything else，opening up possibilities.

信息的融合对所有人都很重要，但对那些接受训练的人来说更重要。运动员就是要不断吸收，展现新信息。梦消除了学到的信息与其他事物间的界线，从而打开了无限可能。

The nba is not so obsessed with dreams.Dreams are just wacky byproducts of Sleep，internal ramblinqs concurrent with the real restorative Drocess.Teams likely ualue these absurd brain doodles about as much as theud value the conversations players have in the cold tub.

NBA对“梦”非常执迷。梦只是睡眠古怪的副产品，是在自我修复环节中内心促生的杂念。球队有可能重视这些大脑产生的奇怪想法，就像他们重视球员在冰浴时的交谈一样。

It is difficult to experiment on the basketball court，even in practice.Rigorous routines must be locked in，everyone else is getting paid for their time.And yet，much of the game is creative，if not whimsical.To play is to probe，to dare，to explore.A dream is a fine place to practice in a place where there are no stakes and experimentation is constant.As the mind runs wild in REM sleep，the bodys skeletal musdes are paralyzed.In the dream space.possibilities are endless，and nobody gets hurt.

在篮球场上做实验是很难的，即便只是训练。球员必须遵守严格的日程安排，每个人都会为付出的时间得到报酬。可篮球比赛本身，即便不是异想天开，也是充满创造性的。打球，就是去刺探，去尝试，去探索。梦境是一个训练的好地方，这里没有风险，可以持续不断地尝试。当我们的思维在快速眼动睡眠中非常运转时我们身体的骨架和肌肉是麻痹的。梦境中一切皆有可能，但没人会因此受伤。

Such experimentation can sometimes be quite silly on its face.For Brent Barry，his hoop dreams werer idiculously fantastical.

从表面上看，这种实验有时会显得非常愚蠢。对布伦特·巴里还说，他的篮球梦就异常夸张。

“I had ones where I seriously was doing ridiculously cartoouis hthings，”the former player and Spurs executive relayed.“Jumping over guys，stretching arms Plastic Man style around guys to throw passes，crossing guys up.”

“我做過一些我非常严肃认真地对一些非常卡通搞笑事情的梦。”前NBA球员，现在马刺担任高管的巴里表示，“从别人头上跳过去，像塑料人一样躲过别人传球，胯下运球晃倒对手。”

As Brandon Payne.trainer to Stephen Curry and founder of Accelerate Basketball，is fond of saying，“Visualization builds confidence.”Dreams can make you see something beyond your current capacity，a key step in reaching ones potential.Barry would never，in reality，leap over his opponents，but perhaps there is value in exploring all possibilities the mind has on offer.As athletes sleep，dreams can act as sherpas，guiding them up trails theyd have other wise neverseen.

正如斯蒂芬·库里的训练师，Accelerate Basketball的创始人布兰登·佩恩喜欢说的那样：“视觉化建立自信。”梦能让你看到超越目前能力范围的事，这是实现个人潜力的关键步骤。现实中巴里绝不可能从对手头顶跳过，但尝试思维提出的各种可能，无疑是有价值的。运动员睡觉时，梦就像引领登山者登上珠峰的夏尔巴人，引领运动员看到他们永远不会看到的场景。

Notevery athlete receives one divine dream that reverses a nightmare season.Such eureka moments are hard to come by，and possibly apocryphal.At the same time，thereis evidence to suggest that the dream state can aim a person towards perfecting tasks.

并不是每一个运动员都能得到扭转噩梦般赛季的神奇一梦。这种“尤里卡”时刻很难出现，也有可能是虚构的。与此同时，有证据证明梦境可以将一个人指向完美任务。

Sans aleague-wide survey，it is difficult to know the exact percentage of hasketball-dreaming NBA players.Informally，for the purposes of this article，only one player out of a dozen denied having any basketball dreams，shaking his head vigorously when asked：StephCurry.

缺少联盟范围内的调查，我们很难知道NBA球员与篮球有关的梦的比例究竟有多少。为了本篇文章进行的非正式调查中，12名球员中只有一人否认自己做过篮球梦，这个提问时用力摇头的，是斯蒂芬·库里。

“Im wired different.”Curry said with a grin.

“我不太一样。”库里笑着说。

If Curry is wired differently from other NBA players，theres another sport where he might share some commonalities in composition.When asked if he dreams about golf，Curry was emphatic：“1，000 percent.”

如果库里和其他NBA球员的结果不太一样，那么还有一个运动项目，也许他能找到共同点。当被问到他是否做过和高尔夫有关的梦时，库里强调：“1000%。”

Whether its in golf or basketball，elite athletes are dreaming themselves to greatness.For the professional，the nights hallucinatory visions arent just the arbitrary shadows life tends to cast.

无论是高尔夫还是篮球，顶尖运动员都在梦想着伟大。对职业运动员来说，夜晚的幻觉并不只是人生随意播下的阴影。

Theres a deeper game at play.The unmoored thoughts that swim in the minds eye have a habit of resurfacing in reality，on the hardwood，manifested as poetry in motion.

背后有着更深层次的原因。畅游在思维中的想法喜欢浮到现实的表面，走上篮球场地，呈现出诗一般的灵动。