crossed my mind閃過腦海

Man, I just had the weirdest dream back on the bus there. Do you ever have those dreams that are just completely real? I mean, they're so vivid, it's just like completely real. It's like there's always something bizarre going on in those. I have one about every two years or something. I always remember 'em really good. It's like there's always someone getting run over or something really weird. Uh, one time I had lunch with Tolstoy. Another time I was a roadie for Frank Zappa. Anyway. So this dream I just had, it was just like that... except instead of anything bizarre going on... I mean, there was nothing going on at all. Man. It was like The Omega Man. There was just nobody around. I was just traveling around... you know, staring out the windows of buses and trains and cars, you know. When I was at home, I was, like, flipping through the TV stations endlessly, reading. I mean, how many dreams do you have where you read in a dream? Wait. Man, there was this book I just read on the bus - You know, it was my dream, so I guess I wrote it or something. But, uh, man, it was bizarre. It was like, uh... the premise for this whole book... was that every thought you have creates its own reality, you know? It's like every choice or decision you make... the thing you choose not to do... fractions off and becomes its own reality, you know... and just goes on from there forever. I mean, it's like... uh, you know, in the Wizard of Oz... when Dorothy meets the Scarecrow and they do that little dance at that crossroads... and they think about going all those directions... then they end up going in that one direction. I mean, all those other directions, just because they thought about it... became separate realities. They just went on from there and lived the rest of their life. I mean, entirely different movies, but we'll never see it... because, you know, we're kind of trapped in this one reality restriction type of thing. Another example would be like back there at the bus station. As I got off the bus, the thought crossed my mind... you know, just for a second, about not taking a cab at all. But, you know, like maybe walking, or bummin' a ride or something like that. I'm kind of broke right now. I should've done that probably. But, uh, just 'cause that thought crossed my mind... there now exists at this very second... a whole 'nother reality where I'm at the bus station... and you're probably giving someone else a ride, you know? I mean, and that reality thinks of itself as this - it thinks of itself as the only reality, you know. I mean, at this very second, I'm in that - I'm back at the bus station just hangin' out, you know... probably thumbin' through a paper. You know, probably goin' up to a pay phone. Say this beautiful woman just comes up to me, just starts talking to me, you know? Uh, she ends up offering me a ride, you know. We're hitting it off. Go play a little pinball. And we go back to her apartment, I mean, she has this great apartment. I move in with her, you know. Say I have a dream some night... that I'm with some strange woman I've never met... or I'm living at some place I've never seen before. See, that's just a momentary glimpse into this other reality... that was all created back there at the bus station. You know, shoot. And then, you know... I could have a dream from that reality into this one... that, like, this is my dream from that reality. Of course, that's kind of like that dream I just had on the bus, you know. The whole cycle type of thing. Man, shit. I should've stayed at the bus station.

哥們兒，我剛在車上做了個最離奇的夢。 你有沒有做過那種特別真實的夢？ 就是特別清晰，跟真的一模一樣。 那種夢裡總有點怪事發生。 我差不多每兩年就會做一次。 每次我都記得特別清楚。 不是有人被車軋了，就是些特別邪門的事。 呃，有一次我跟托爾斯泰一起吃午飯。 還有一次我給弗蘭克·扎帕當巡演助理。反正就這樣吧。 我剛做的這個夢，就跟那種一樣…… 只不過裡面沒有任何怪事…… 就是說什麼事都沒發生。 哥們兒，就跟《最後一個人》似的，周圍一個人都沒有。 我就到處走…… 就是盯著公交車、火車、汽車的窗外發呆。 在家的時候，我就不停地換臺，翻書看。 你說，誰做夢還能在夢裡看書啊？ 等等。哥們兒，我剛在車上讀了一本書——你想，那是我的夢，估計就是我寫的吧。 可是，呃，哥們兒，太邪門了。就像…… 整本書的設定是…… 你每冒出一個念頭，就會造出一個自己的現實。 就是你做的每個選擇、每個決定…… 還有你選擇不去做的事…… 都會分裂出去，變成另一個現實…… 然後就那樣永遠延續下去。 就像…… 呃，你知道，在《綠野仙蹤》裡…… 多蘿西遇到稻草人，兩人在十字路口跳那支小舞的時候…… 他們想過走每一條路…… 最後卻只走了其中一條。 其他那些方向，就因為他們想過一下…… 就變成了一個個獨立的現實。 他們就從那兒繼續，過完了餘生。 就是完全不同的電影，可我們永遠看不到…… 因為我們多少被困在只此一個現實的限制裡。 再舉個例子，就像剛才在汽車站。 我下車的時候，腦子裡閃過一個念頭…… 就那麼一秒鐘，想著乾脆不坐計程車了。 也許走著去，或者蹭個順風車什麼的。 我現在手頭有點緊，當時真該那麼幹。 可是，就因為我腦子裡閃過那個念頭…… 就在此刻，已經存在了…… 另一個現實，那裡的我還待在汽車站…… 而你大概在載別的客人。 那個現實還以為自己才是這個——還以為自己是唯一的現實。 此刻我就在那兒——回到汽車站閒待著…… 大概在翻報紙。 大概走向一個投幣電話。 比如一個漂亮女人走過來，主動跟我搭話。 呃，結果她說要捎我一程。 我倆特別聊得來，還去打了幾局彈珠機。 然後去了她的公寓，她那公寓真不錯。 我就搬過去跟她住了。 比如有天晚上我做了個夢…… 夢見自己跟一個素不相識的陌生女人在一起…… 或者住在一個從沒見過的地方。 你看，那不過是對另一個現實的一瞥…… 那個現實就是在汽車站那兒造出來的。 唉，然後呢…… 我也可能從那個現實做夢，夢到這個現實來…… 也就是說，這裡是那個現實裡的我做的夢。 當然，這就有點像我剛在車上做的那個夢。 整個迴圈往復那一套。 哥們兒，靠，我真該留在汽車站的。