Saturday, January 31, 2009

Sleep study

Tonight I sleep in the arms of modern neuroscience.
Plastered with electrodes in a strange room surrounded by cameras, I will try to get a typical night of sleep.
The study starts at 8:30PM, at which time I will be awake.
I will continue to be awake until shortly after 3:00AM.
Soon after, the study ends at what the scientists have determined to be the typical Sunday wake up time - 6:30AM.
At that point I will put on my street clothes and be released into the wild.
There is a great likelihood that I will fall asleep and die in a car crash within 15 minutes.
Within two months the hospital will mail my wife a notice stating that I should lose weight and a bill for $22,000.

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