Get paid to sleep!

[LeMarchand]

If any EduGuys can take the time off (mainly term time) you could get paid over a grand for sleeping! (There's also an insomnia study open to both sexes).

 

https://crc.surrey.ac.uk/volunteers/studies/sleep-study

 

Admittedly, this does sound like the pitch for a horror film:

 

5 years ago Edward Geek took part in a sleep experiment. Now, his fellow volunteers are dying in their sleep. They brought something back from the dream realm. Something evil. It is stalking them; using their life force to open a gateway to this world. If it succeeds, all our lives will become a living nightmare. DREAM DEMON. Rated PG12 for mild profanity, brief nudity and some scenes of bloody violence.

[ICTDirect_Dave]

Looking at the dates in their little table, it seems that this study is already finished.

Otherwise I know a colleague of mine from the support team who would consider this as a way of getting themselves a nice iPhone X

[hardtailstar]

Be willing to use double barrier method for contraception.

 

This is one of the requirements.....

[Oddbod]

Not sure where you got the film pitch from… but I've done a sleep study before and it never affected me......... Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

 

No seriously… off to sign up and see what this study is all about

[Joanne]

what's the contraception bit about?

[hardtailstar]

what's the contraception bit about?

 

Not sure but surely if thats a requirement there will be sex involved!

[Joanne]

What if you don't need contraception though? I mean.... does the drug reside in the semen or something?

[Oddbod]

The contraception bit is to confirm you're STD free, since they'll be taking blood samples…

[LeMarchand]

Looking at the dates in their little table, it seems that this study is already finished.

 

Doh! Didn't register that. OTOH, they were plugging it on Spotify last night, so may be worth a punt.

 

what's the contraception bit about?

 

Maybe it's a cover for a program to activate the dormant "X" gene, and they want to be really sure that the lab rats participants don't pass on any potentially bad mutations to the next generation.

[Joanne]

I mean... I don't know why I'm even asking to be honest.... hah!

[Oddbod]

Darn… yes @ICTDirect_Dave, it has finished…

 

But they regularly do sleep studies…

 

Last one I attended was for double dosing melatonin to see how it affected your circadian rhythms…

 

Melatonin naturally occurs in the body, so my GP was ok with me taking up the trial.

The developed drug was used to improve fighter pilots alertness during long flight sorties of 8-12hours.

 

Made £2000 for six weeks sleep! Result!