The Sleep Experiment Novels & Stories

Sunlight streamed through the window. The clock on the wall read nine in the morning. I pushed myself up in bed, unable to remember a single thing. We had been conducting an experiment in the laboratory… hadn’t we? Or had I imagined it? I was clean, dressed in my favorite pajamas. What had happened? I tried to slip out from under the blanket but realized something was blocking me. Or someone. Behind me, Ruslan slept soundly, his arm carelessly draped over my waist.

The words he was about to say died in his throat, and he instinctively quieted his breathing. They had taken turns resting through the night, but Nyla had stayed awake the entire time, overseeing the experiment. She must have been exhausted. Ruby Jenner gently draped a lab coat over Nyla, her movements unusually tender for someone typically so energetic and direct. She whispered to Leon, "Let Nyla sleep for a bit. We'll wake her around seven." Leon nodded. "Got it." The two sat down and quietly began analyzing the experiment data. The only sounds in the lab were the soft scratching of pens against paper and Nyla's faint breathing as she slept.

His team of scientists in DRI has been studying the actions of sleepwalkers or putting recording devices in people's rooms and catching the utterances that they make during sleep talking and analyzing the language of that. Neuroimaging studies of rats with electrodes have been important. Some of the first research on memory consolidation and dreams comes from rat studies. Building off that, other scientists ran an experiment where they released rats into a maze. The rats would run around randomly assigned with no goal for any area. If the and so far when you started your quest for an explanation, the team has been surveying you ever since." "You what? I was bugged?" She shouted. Disappointed