[00:00.000] 作曲 : Laurie Anderson
[00:10.094] Strange, but after all this time –
[00:12.284] 30,000 years of human civilisation –
[00:16.124] we still have no idea why we dream.
[00:18.991] Of course there are lots of theories.
[00:20.933] And one theory of SIDS,
[00:22.775] or Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, has to do with dreaming.
[00:27.909] SIDS, or Crib Death,
[00:29.657] is the mysterious phenomenon of the death of a baby, who just suddenly stops breathing.
[00:36.366] And, according to the theory, the baby dies during REM sleep.
[00:40.194] A period when dreams of the past are the most intense.
[00:44.422] And these dreams are from before the baby was born.
[00:49.156] Before the baby began to breathe.
[00:52.951] And the dreams are so real that the baby gets lost in them.
[00:59.406] And just stops breathing

.
[01:06.464] And when you see an x-ray of a child's head,
[01:12.124] you see the second pair of teeth right above the baby teeth.
[01:15.580] And this second pair of teeth is ready to drop down into place,
[01:20.198] when the first set falls out.
[01:24.005] Now wouldn't it be great to have a second brain?
[01:26.070] Or a reserve heart?
[01:29.748] That would just drop down into place, when the first one breaks