来源: https://www.thehealthy.com
官方翻译
Ever wish you could banish a painfully embarrassing moment from your brain forever?
你是否曾希望可以让一个痛苦而尴尬的时刻从脑海中永远消失呢？
Good news! Now you can actually trick yourself into erasing a memory, science says.
好消息！从科学层面来说，现在你可以通过诱使自己来擦除记忆了。
Experts call this mind hack "synaptic pruning," but Fast Company dubbed it a "delete" button for short.
专家们把这种思维黑客称作 “突触修剪” ，但《快速公司》把它简称为 “删除” 按钮。
So, how does it work?
那么，它是如何工作的呢？
Imagine your brain as a garden, where synaptic connections between neurons grow instead of flowers or vegetables. As you learn and experience things, your brain builds more and more neurological connections.
把你的大脑想象成一个花园，在那里生长的是神经元之间的突触连接，而不是花朵或蔬菜。当你学习和体验事物时，你的大脑会建立越来越多的神经连接。
"Glial cells" are the gardeners of your brain; they both speed up the signals between neurons as well as erase the ones that are no longer needed.
“神经胶质细胞” 是你大脑的园丁；它们既加速神经元之间的信号的传递，又消除不再需要的信号。
Your brain does all of this while you sleep, creating more space in your brain to build new and stronger connections in the future. Hence the reason why a good, deep night's sleep is so important.
你的大脑在你睡觉的时候做这些事情，然后在你的大脑中创造更多的空间，以便能够在未来建立新的和更强大的连接。这就是为什么一个良好的深度睡眠是如此的重要。
Experts say that you actually have some control over what your brain decides to delete while you sleep.
专家说，在你睡觉的时候，你的确可以在一定程度上控制你的大脑，决定删除什么。
Since the unused synaptic connections get chucked, what you think about the most will stick around. Focusing most of your thoughts on the necessary stuff — a happy memory or an upcoming test — will increase the likelihood that you remember it down the road.
由于未使用的突触连接被抛弃，你想得最多的东西就会留在这里。把你的大部分思考集中在必要的东西上——快乐的回忆或者即将到来的考试——这将会增加你将来记住它的可能性。
To take advantage of your brain's natural gardening system, simply think about the things that are important to you. Your gardeners will strengthen those connections and prune the ones that you care about less. It's how you help the garden of your brain flower.
利用你大脑的自然园艺系统，只需要去想想那些对你重要的事情。你的园丁就会加强这些联系，并删除那些你不太关心的事情。这就是你如何帮助你的大脑花园开花的方法。
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