Wildepad skreiv:
> Throughout the hospital, you find people asleep in beds, on chairs,
> curled up in corners, etc. and you can't rouse them.
> 1) What are your first thoughts about what happened?
Something weird. Disease ? Attack ? Am I still sane ?
> 2) What is the first thing you'd do? The second?
Gather information. First look for other awake people or signs that
others are awake in the hospital and by looking for traffic or other
signs of awakeness.
If I find someone, try to find a reason that could explain the awake
set. Why are precisely -these- people awake: Are we the ones who've
slept the longest. (perhaps it wears off for everyone after 26 hours ?
if so, I'd expect more people to wake up as time passes)
Do we have other things in common ? Are we the same age ? Same sex ? Did
we sleep in similar surroundings ? Are we all above average physically
fit ? Where we all drunk the night before ? Are we all working the same
job ? Do we live in the same geographical area ? Some chemical in the
air ? In the Water ? Did we -not- drink tap-water the day before ? Did
we -not- eat the day before ?
Any clue at all. We're going to need a clue to know how to prevent it
from happening to us too, and possibly to help others, assuming it isn't
the "it'll pass by itself" variety.
> 3) What precautions might you think about to prevent it from happening
> again?
I'd try to replicate whatever I did the day before: If I drank no
tap-water but only coke/beer/whatever the day before, I'll not drink any
tap-water today. If I ate only canned food yesterday, I will today too.
Since I know that I slept and woke safely in the hospital, I'd return
there and sleep in the same spot when I eventually need to sleep again,
if there's something in the air, obviously it's not where I slept. Did I
wake in a operation-room or something ? Does it have air-filters ?
I'd probably want to wait until I know more with sleeping again, all the
evidence indicates people slept in normally and then simply didn't wake.
Eivind
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