Hi folks.
last thursday i went to a sleeplab to have sleep research done to me (i seem to have some kind of sleepdisorder - i sleep very long but still not rested). Anyway it was a very interesting experience and i want to share it with you all
First they put all kinds of electrodes on me, after they where finished i looked something like this:
I had some on my head, 2 next to my ears, 2 next to my eyes, one on my 3rd eye, 2 behind my chin. Also 2 on my chest for heartbeat monitoring and 2 on each of my lower legs to measure leg tension.
All the electrodes where connected with colorful threads that where put in my ‘remote control device’ (i couldn’t help calling it that) - it was like a big remote control with little holes in it, and in some of them my electrodes where connected.
I felt like a cyborg
then i went to my bedroom - it was monitored by a camera and an infrared camera. They connected the remotecontrol to the measure thing and put even more measuring stuff on me.
All night I was monitored. In the control room they had all monitors of all bedrooms (there where 4), below each monitor was a computer where the measurements where displayed.
on my left finger a little red ET phone home light that measures the oxygen in my blood, a little very annoying thing on my neck to measure snoring, a band around my chest for respiration measuring and the thing in my nose you see on the picture. Only i didn’t have that thing at my mouth the girl in the pic has.
And then they wish you goodnight and expect you to sleep
although i was very tired it took me ages to get to sleep. The pressure of the electrodes, that thing stuck up my nose, and the weird environment.
Finally I succeeded to get to sleep.
I didn’t have any LD’s (which would have been cool) but I did have 2 FA’s.
I plugged LD4all to all the ppl who where there - some of them never had heard from it, others where interested
the next morning they woke me up at 7:30 . The finger thing was removed, the chest band, the nose thing and the snoring thing.
The rest i had to keep on because that day i had to do more tests.
so i walked around all day all electroded up with the remote control around my neck like a very big pendant on a necklace.
then each two hours i had to come back and take a nap. I couldn’t really get to sleep because when i know i will be waken up after 20 minutes i get stressed like (oh shit i have to sleep now otherwise they will wake me and i didn’t get any sleep!)
after 4 of those nap tests everything was done. They removed the electrodes and i was free to go home
I felt very groggy and like i had a jetlag. Very weird.
It was a very interesting experience but never again… i was so glad to be able to sleep in my own bed again.
in 5 weeks i will get the results - i’m curious what they will have found.