Sleep Compression.

[swestrup]

With the flick of a switch, fall asleep instantly and get 8 hours worth of rest in only 2 or 3 hours. It sounds wonderful, but I'm sure as hell not going to be the first one to do long term use tests of this thing.

Comments

[sorceror.livejournal.com]

Huh.

I just recently read through a copy of Cyborg, a 1970's novel that I'm sure led to the Six Million Dollar Man series on TV; and there's a reference to the US military using such a machine to keep poor Steve Austin in a coma until they know what to do with him.

I'd be afraid of it causing brain tumours, myself. Don't cell phones do that?

[swestrup]

Yeah, The Six Million Dollar Man even mentions Cyborg in their credits. I read it years ago, but I liked it.

As for cell phones, they only cause cancer if you eat too many. Remember: moderation is the key.

[sorceror.livejournal.com]

And knowing is half the battle.

[taxlady.livejournal.com]

Yeah, other than the tumour concern, I'd be volunteering for this one ;)

[swestrup]

Actually, I have absolutely no fear that it might cause cancer. However, various types of mental and neurochemical imbalances is entirely a different story.

[taxlady.livejournal.com]

Okay, that's actually what I meant.

[wintersweet.livejournal.com]

SIGN ME UP.

The last few weeks of "sleep" have made me interested in trying anything except more of the same!

[swestrup]

Believe me, I can SO understand that point of view.

[grimmwire.livejournal.com]

"That summer Parker had trouble sleeping. There were power-droughts; sudden failures of the delta-inducer brought painfully abrupt returns to consciousness."
....
"The microfiche laminate in the cassette's transparent case explained that the yogi could will himself through alpha to delta without an inducer. Parker, who hadn't been able to sleep without an inducer for two years, wondered if this was possible."
....
"In the bedroom, Parker prods the brushed-aluminum face of his Sendai Sleep-Master. Its pilot light flickers, then lapses into darkness."

--"Fragments of a Hologram Rose", William Gibson, 1977

[swestrup]

IMNSHO, Gibson's collected short stories (including that one) are the best work he's ever done.

[skjalm.livejournal.com]

And by "long term use tests" you mean "sleep for several weeks at a time"? ;-)

[swestrup]

Yup. Like in Red Dwarf: "I tried to wake you last August, but you absolutely insisted you needed another three months."