杰克在舞台剧结束后参加了一场由神经学家莫兰.瑟夫主持的关于大脑意识的讨论会。两个人都同意梦境极其重要。

杰克把梦与电影相提并论，表示两者都会对当事人产生影响。他还透露，每次做了梦醒后都会尽量把梦的内容记下来。“我从梦中体验到的是讲故事，梦境和故事可以领你进入生命中非凡的领域，”他说，“它们影响你在生活中的重大决定，包括剧本的挑选”

老吉说他经常做梦，并应主持的要求讲了自己记得的最近做过的一次梦。他说在舞台剧表演期间，他梦到自己在一个满是白气球的黑暗舞台上，和一个不认识的人一起往上飞。

主持说这个梦有待解析，老吉在梦中看到的颜色比较奇异，“在彩色电视出现之前，人们做的梦都只有黑白两色，”他说。

当观众问到老吉有关表演的问题时，他说他挑选角色靠的基本都是潜意识和本能反应

【原文】
Despite enormous strides in our understanding of the brain over the last few decades, lectures and panel discussions featuring neuroscientists regularly conclude with the following admission: the more we learn, the more we realize how far we are from definitive answers. In a Brainwave discussion between actor Jake Gyllenhaal and neuroscientist Moran Cerf on the impact of dreams, that often-repeated refrain was reaffirmed as the duo waxed philosophical and queried each other on various aspects of what Freud called “the road to the unconscious mind.”

The discussion took place during Brain Awareness Week at the Rubin Museum of Art in New York City. Both Gyllenhaal and Cerf agreed that dreams are of vital importance; the actor compared dreams to films and claimed they can shape and change you. He also revealed that he either writes or records what he can recount about a specific dream as soon as he awakens. “Storytelling is the way I experience dreaming and what I try to accomplish as an actor, and both storytelling and dreaming can move you to extraordinary places in your life,” he said. “They help me guide major life decisions, including which projects to pursue.”

The pair had good chemistry and elicited laughter from the audience as they related the discussion to Gyllenhaal’s underwear, bad eyesight, and his taking credit for his sister’s goodness. Gyllenhaal also teasingly reminded Cerf, who has a rapid-fire style of speaking, to slow down. But the discussion also had serious and poignant moments as they related dreaming to grieving, depression, and close relationships.

Gyllenhaal said he is someone who dreams a lot, and Cerf asked if he might recount a recent dream. Gyllenhaal’s three-month run in the Broadway acclaimed two-actor play, Constellations, had ended just the day before, and the actor dreamed during the night that he was on a black stage filled with white balloons alongside an unknown figure as they both rose like a small town into the air. Cerf said that while such elaborate fantasies are open to interpretation, Gyllenhaal’s distinguishing colors in his dream is a relatively recent phenomenon: “Before color TV came along, people only dreamt in black and white,” he claimed. ...

For audience members who yearned to hear the full-bearded Gyllenhaal talk about acting, he spoke about the elements that drew him to his upcoming film, Everest, based on Jon Krakauer’s best-selling book, Into Thin Air. He said he is drawn to act in films (such as Everest, Donnie Darko, Prisoners, and Enemy) that involve the unconscious or reflexive behavior—states of mind closely aligned to the evening’s topic.

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记得梦的内容说明睡眠质量不好