Science Week: Future Inventions

Published Wednesday, November 14, 2007 by Kevin Breathnach | E-mail this post

There are many possible inventions that could do a lot of good in the world. The Metro announces every other day that cancer has been cured because a veritable, working cure would be a feat of historical proportions. Maybe even beyond the frivolity of this blog. AIDS and Malaria feature also on the list - headed by Death itself - of afflictions in need of curing. Though that's a little too heavy for my Science Week, the invention I would most like to see in the future falls, I guess, within the realm of medical invention. Maverick medical invention.

I hate going to bed at night. The time between initially going to bed and the first seconds of actual slumber is always an unbearably lonely, supine struggle. The dream itself is a fragile, insubstantial mystery I could quite frankly do without. And yet, I find myself unable to get up in the morning, as if gravity were somehow heavier over the beds in which - not on which - I sleep. Something to do with remaining in the womb, as that dream-guru Mr Freud might suppose. Put simply, I think the whole ritual should be done away with, once and for all. Without it, we'd get a great deal more done and we'd never again be late for our early 11am tutorials on its account. I've tried polyphasic methods, but gravity played its part above my bed after, well, not long.

So, I want a pill, is all. A pill to cure sleep.

And a Wii: I posted an unflattering picture of myself, for God's sake.

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