wink out

Yes, but not to the degree depicted in the movies, where people wink out like lights and buildings disappear from sight and even from the memory of all.

是的，但是并不像电影里面演得那么夸张，人们像灯光一样熄灭，建筑物在你眼前消失甚至在所有人的记忆中消失。

In flow, huge portions of your prefrontal cortex are turning off. Parts of it start to wink out so you can no longer separate past from present from future.

处在心流状态下时，前额叶皮层的相当大一部分正在关闭，开始终止运行，于是你就再也无法分清过去、现在和未来。

Watching my grandmother wink out from the world of seeing was tragic; the knowledge of macular degeneration's heredity terrifying.

看我的祖母眼色从世界看惨了，在黄斑变性的遗传可怕的知识。