Comments on: Snorting a Brain Chemical Could Replace Sleep http://aftermathnews.wordpress.com/2008/01/01/snorting-a-brain-chemical-could-replace-sleep/ Independent Post-9/11 News Thu, 07 Jan 2010 15:23:45 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: pjwalker911 http://aftermathnews.wordpress.com/2008/01/01/snorting-a-brain-chemical-could-replace-sleep/#comment-71095 pjwalker911 Wed, 02 Jan 2008 00:33:47 +0000 http://aftermathnews.wordpress.com/2008/01/01/snorting-a-brain-chemical-could-replace-sleep/#comment-71095 Exactly, you know the score. Exactly, you know the score.

]]> By: wil http://aftermathnews.wordpress.com/2008/01/01/snorting-a-brain-chemical-could-replace-sleep/#comment-71085 wil Tue, 01 Jan 2008 22:28:30 +0000 http://aftermathnews.wordpress.com/2008/01/01/snorting-a-brain-chemical-could-replace-sleep/#comment-71085 J G Ballard (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._G._Ballard) wrote several stories about either subjects who were operated on to never require sleep (with unforeseen results), or a sleeping sickness that renders people unable to stay awake. One story with the perhaps unfortunate title "Manhole 69" (well is was written in the 50's) deals with the hallucinations of the test subjects. Another story--I don't recall the title offhand-- A Doctor succumbing to the sleep sickness--goes to visit a patient he'd operated on who was never able to sleep again, and who has rather mixed emotions about the scientist. This seems like another in a line of touted wonder drugs over the years, that after some amount of fatalities or side effects-someone says "Oops! So Sorry!" And it's get pulled, lawsuits and etc. J G Ballard (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._G._Ballard)

wrote several stories about either subjects who were operated on to never require sleep (with unforeseen results), or a sleeping sickness that renders people unable to stay awake.
One story with the perhaps unfortunate title “Manhole 69″ (well is was written in the 50’s) deals with the hallucinations of the test subjects.

Another story–I don’t recall the title offhand– A Doctor succumbing to the sleep sickness–goes to visit a patient he’d operated on who was never able to sleep again, and who has rather mixed emotions about the scientist.

This seems like another in a line of touted wonder drugs over the years, that after some amount of fatalities or side effects-someone says “Oops! So Sorry!” And it’s get pulled, lawsuits and etc.

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