跟讀練習: My Thoughts on Reality Shifting - 通過影片學習英語口語
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I understand that there are things that I don't understand.
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For example, theoretical physics, or how to make friends.
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But I do know that the world is not flat, that vaccines work, and listening to people tell me otherwise is admittedly a guilty pleasure of mine.
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Whether it's conspiracy theories or horoscopes, I love watching people pour their heart into something they genuinely believe in,
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only for me to go, I disagree. But please, continue.
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There are some beliefs that I don't agree with, but are absolutely fine to believe in like thinking bucket hats look good on someone.
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But I think we can all agree that some beliefs can be incredibly damaging to a person, or even humanity as a whole, like the anti-vaxxers, or racists.
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So I discovered a new trend, and I'm not sure if it's just kids being kids, or a mentally damaging belief system, but I'm still gonna talk about it
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and explain to my audience the importance of critical thinking and to notice the red flags in dangerous beliefs.
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So what am I talking about?
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I unfortunately fell down a rabbit hole
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and discovered a community of mostly kids on a phone application called TikTok doing something called reality shifting.
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This, by the way, is not a small community of like 20 people.
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There are amino groups with thousands of members, videos with hundreds of thousands of views, and they have their own acronyms.
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O. M.
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G. Reality shifting stems from the belief in parallel universes.
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Which, I gotta be honest, I'm not completely sold on that idea to begin with.
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You say that Schrodinger's cat is both alive and dead?
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But cats have nine lives, so are 4.5 cats dead?
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How is a cat half dead?
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Either way, someone supposedly very smart has said
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that every decision you've ever made has caused the universe to copy itself
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and create a new reality where you made the different decision.
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I had cereal for breakfast this morning, but somewhere there's a reality where I ate my hamster for breakfast.
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Does that mean I create a new universe every time I scratch my butt? and somewhere there's a James with better manners?
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So times that by 8 billion people making decisions every day, plus the decisions made by like, dogs and jellyfish, right?
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Those count, I think.
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And we get roughly infinity total realities.
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If you've seen Endgame, you know what I'm talking about.
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The reality shifting community says that since there are infinite realities, then there's a reality where GameStop stock is incredibly low, or that COVID didn't happen.
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Or perhaps, there's even a reality out there where Hogwarts is real, and a messenger owl just dropped off your acceptance letter.
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And through the right meditation, you can transfer your consciousness from your current reality,
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your CR for short, to your Hogwarts desired reality, your DR. And for some gosh darn reason,
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Hogwarts is the number one shiftable destination location.
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But obviously it's not just Hogwarts, any fictional universe is fair game.
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You could go to the Hunger Games, or Lord of the Rings.
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I'm not sure why though, a lot of bad things happen there.
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And since all logic is thrown out the window, cartoon and anime realities are shiftable destinations.
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Because if Schrodinger's cat taught us anything, it's that there are some universes that are just 24 drawings a second.
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So because there are allegedly infinite realities, people will write down what they want their desired reality to be, and this is called a script.
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It's funny, you know, normally scripts are made to tell fictional stories, but these people think that what they write down will be 100% real.
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And you can make a script of whatever you want.
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You can say, I want to shift to Hogwarts and be in a relationship with Draco Malfoy.
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I mean, not me, this is just an example.
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Now listen, you're a smart kid, okay?
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Hopefully, I don't have to explain to you that that's not how life works.
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If you believe you can hop into different realities, then that's great and I see no problem with it.
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Is what I would say in a different reality, but in this reality, I have a lot of questions.
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If you can shift your consciousness into a different version of you, what happens to the alternate reality you's consciousness?
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You're just taking over someone else's body.
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This other you had a life and a family, unless you're going to a YA fantasy novel, and you just took over their whole body.
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What if there's a you in an alternate reality that's like, I want to live in a reality where there's a pandemic and I'm sadder, and then they shifted here.
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What happens to your consciousness?
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You don't trade!
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The reality shifting community says that when you shift, you leave behind a clone of yourself.
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Obviously.
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So when you shift, there's someone's consciousness unaccounted for!
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What about the realities where one of you had waffles for breakfast and the other had pancakes?
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Both of these you's are pretty much the exact same.
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So then both of you will want to reality shift to the exact same Harry Potter reality.
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Do you have to share a body with the other yous that have shifted to the same reality?
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Are you telling me that Voldemort and any fictional villain is real?
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How come half of us didn't get turned to dust when Thanos snapped?
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If anyone can reality shift, are you telling me there's a chance that Voldemort could download TikTok and reality shift here?
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If you go to Hogwarts, you're leading Voldemort right to us.
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How can there be a reality where magic is real?
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Sure, I don't know how parallel universes work, but they're parallel.
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So the laws of physics should still be the same, right?
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But James, I know that reality shifting makes no sense and is impossible, but then why do so many people claim to have shifted?
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Because they're dreaming.
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Shifting happens when you fall asleep, and if you fill your subconscious with things from your desired reality, would you be surprised that you had a dream about Hogwarts?
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Something about this trend doesn't sit right with me.
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A lot of the reality shifting TikToks were done by kids.
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And kids, as you know, can get really obsessed in a fandom and do some cringey stuff.
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If these kids were making fanfiction and writing themselves on a date with Bakugo, that would be totally fine.
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Healthy even.
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Heck, even if these kids flat out said, I love Harry Potter so much that I want to manipulate my dreams to be about him.
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That would be fine too!
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But something about actually believing that you're astral projecting into a fictional universe?
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I don't know that level of obsession just feels unhealthy.
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My guy.
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And also back off Bakugou, he's mine.
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The problem with reality shifting and actually conspiracy theories as a whole is
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that they pretend to be based on factual evidence when they're entirely a pseudoscience.
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You start off with a scientific idea, multiple realities, and then you make up whatever you want and use what the scientists have said about multiple realities as proof.
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Even though no scientist has said anything about being able to move your consciousness outside of your body, or that you leave a clone of yourself behind when you reality shift,
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or that cartoon universes exist.
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I've seen people in videos say that they've done research on reality shifting, But I feel confident in saying you didn't get a degree in quantum physics.
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I want you to cite your sources and show me the studies, because research isn't just believing what other people said on TikTok.
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These TikToks get impressionable kids to believe in reality shifting in pretty manipulative ways, saying that if you didn't shift, it's because you didn't believe hard enough.
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When you get these doubts and say, Oh, I can't shift, I don't even know if it's real anymore at this point, try and ask yourself after, But what if it's real?
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What if I can shift?
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You want to find out, do you?
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I get it.
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Harry Potter is a cool world.
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That's why they made a whole theme park about it.
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Who wouldn't want to drop out of a muggle public school
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and live in a castle with a bunch of soft British boys?
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And also magic or whatever.
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But you need to be mindful about where you're getting your information.
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I've watched hours of flat earthers and anti-vaxxers talk about their beliefs, and these people get their information from non-credible sources,
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and they end up pushing more fake information online, and it creates this echo chamber that warps their worldview.
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I don't want kids watching these TikToks or going on Amino
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and essentially get lied to and think this is how the world works.
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I'm hoping that all of these people will look back at themselves in 10 years and go,
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Yeesh, I can't believe I was so obsessed about a thing I literally tried to astral project myself across the multiverse.
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Right, Bakugo?
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I know that this reality can suck sometimes, and right now it's looking pretty bad.
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But like it or not, this is the one reality we get.
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A lot of things may be out of your control, but according to theoretical physics, we make a lot of choices.
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And all our choices lead us down different paths.
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So what you need to do is not give up on this reality for a literal fictitious one, but instead to make choices that will make this current reality your desired reality.
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Thank you all for coming to my TED Talk.
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本課的詞彙與口語要點
這段影片共有 113 個句子、1626 個單詞可供跟讀。 講話部分時長為 8:41。 說話人語速較快，每分鐘約 187 個詞，會出現較多連讀和弱讀。 只有 80% 的單詞屬於英語最常用的 3,000 詞，詞彙難度較高。
影片中的重點詞彙
影片中 15 個值得學習的單詞，附發音和釋義：
| 單詞 | 發音 | 釋義 |
|---|---|---|
| belief 名詞 | /bɪˈliːf/ | 相信, 信心 |
| consciousness 名詞 | /ˈkɑnʃəsnəs/ | 意識 /意識 |
| physics 名詞 | /ˈfɪz.ɪks/ | 物理學 /物理學 |
| script 名詞 | /skɹɪpt/ | 文章 |
| parallel 形容詞 | /ˈpæ.ɹəˌlɛl/ | 平行的 |
| discover 動詞 | /dɪˈskʌvə/ | 發現 /發現, 發覺 /發覺 |
| conspiracy 名詞 | /kənˈspɪɹəsi/ | 陰謀 /陰謀, 串謀 /串謀 |
| destination 名詞 | /dɛstɪˈneɪʃən/ | 目的地 |
| scientist 名詞 | /ˈsaɪəntəst/ | 科學家 /科學家 |
| infinite 形容詞 | /ˈɪnfɪnɪt/ | 無窮 /無窮, 無限 /無限 |
| cartoon 名詞 | /kɑɹˈtun/ | 卡通, 諷刺畫 /諷刺畫 |
| theoretical 形容詞 | /ˌθi.əˈɹɛt.ɪ.kəl/ | 理論 /理論 |
| amino 名詞 | /əˈminoʊ/ | 氨基 |
| clone 名詞 | /kloʊn/ | 克隆, 複製 /複製 |
| chamber 名詞 | /ˈt͡ʃeɪ̯mbɚ/ | 臥室 /臥室, 寢室 /寢室 |
影片中出現的短語動詞
| 單詞 | 發音 | 釋義 |
|---|---|---|
| take over 動詞 | 接管, 接手 | |
| write down 動詞 | 寫下來 /寫下來, 寫下 /寫下 | |
| drop off 動詞 | 掉落, 落下 | |
| end up 動詞 | 到達 | |
| fall down 動詞 | /fɔl ˈdaʊn/ | 落下, 倒下 |
| find out 動詞 | 找出, 查明 | |
| leave behind 動詞 | 遺棄 /遺棄 | |
| make up 動詞 | /ˌmeɪk ˈʌp/ | 組成 /組成 |
需要注意的發音
說話人用了 41 次縮略和弱讀形式，例如 don't, I'm, you're。請按聽到的簡短形式來說。
- “th” 音: theoretical /ˌθi.əˈɹɛt.ɪ.kəl/, unhealthy /ʌnˈhɛl.θi/
- “sh” 和 “zh” 音: consciousness /ˈkɑnʃəsnəs/, fictional /ˈfɪkʃənəl/, destination /dɛstɪˈneɪʃən/, essentially /ɪˈsɛnʃəli/, meditation /mɛdɪˈteɪʃn̩/
- 長單詞——注意重音位置: incredibly /ɪŋˈkɹɛdɪbli/, conspiracy /kənˈspɪɹəsi/, destination /dɛstɪˈneɪʃən/, theoretical /ˌθi.əˈɹɛt.ɪ.kəl/, essentially /ɪˈsɛnʃəli/
如何用這段影片練習
- 先完整聽一遍影片，不要開口，記下不認識的單詞。
- 先用 0.75 倍速逐句跟讀，熟練之後再回到正常速度。
- 錄下自己的聲音並與原聲對比，特別注意 belief, consciousness, physics 這類單詞。
影片中的語法
說話人最常用的結構，並附上影片中的原話：
| 結構 | 影片中的用法 |
|---|---|
| 現在完成時 have/has + 過去分詞 — 過去發生但與現在仍有關聯的事 | has said · you've ever made · you've seen |
| 被動語態 be + 過去分詞 — 強調發生了什麼，而不是誰做的 | is thrown · is called · are made |
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