Sleep Patterns

Yes, it is. It shows the person and their sleep positions along with their associated brain waves at the time.

Interesting! I've never seen anything like that before...

That's creepy. I don't like that.

looks like a sleep study test, they use it for sleep apnea and other conditions, I had one due to my heart condition, its really hard to sleep at all with all of the wires connected to you.

Thats neat

Very cool

Wow--that's different!

ewwwwwwww ewwwwwwwww ewwwwwwwwwww thanks for the nightmare tonight!

...it's just the beast under your bed, in your closet , in your head.

Lol... Metallica Rules... Great Pics

Reminds me of the pictures of the Sloth Victim from the movie Se7en who was tied to his bed for 1 year.

Thats incredibly eerie.

Your photo makes it look like the paper goes on to infinity...great work!

Thanks J-131274... I think I just found my theme song for viewing this website.....lol!

Those are read outs of the person's REM (rapid eye movement) activity while they sleep, lined up with the pictures from the appropriate times.

Wow, reminds me of when I had my sleep studies done! I look like a freak every night now, with my CPAP machine and that sexy mask! My husband has one too, so I'd shutter to think what someone would think if they walked into our bedroom and saw us both hooked up to our machines with the masks and hoses...LOL!

that is super cool!

I cant believe that they just left some ones sleepstudy laying around!!

wait, was the video playing?

psh cha! thats creepy!

I keep trying to read and look into it!

Sparky- haha, I kid my Dad about that "scuba gear"

Yes these are pictures of a sleep study.

Your interpretations of it are comical. I do think the photos have a cool factor, even for a seasoned sleep tech.

The top portions are obviously photographs of the patient every 4 minutes or so throughout the night.

the bottom portion includes some EMG, EEG and possibly EOG. (muscle activity, brain activity, and eye activity)

You see the #s 48, 49, 50...these are what we call "epochs" or 30 second pages of sleep. The smaller vertical lines are each 1 second.

It would appear the patient is actually awake and there is no sleep present. The ink splatter is suggestive of a fairly older "sleep machine" Its reflecting a gross body movement that has occluded, at least partially so the rest of the channels

What I find interesting is that there are no wires attached to this person. Makes me think this photo was simply some kind of marketing tool. Sleep Studies are notorious for having many wires and if this is showing any kind of EEG/EOG we should be seeing at least 5 "leads" coming from this patients head/face.

After blowing up the "distrub" photo, the first one appears to reveal the common "squares" used to paste electrodes on. It does appear there is some kind of machine on the upper right of the photo. Perhaps my marketing tool impressions are wrong.

Seems to me the guy is awake and just moving around.

As far as patient rights go.....Is the guy identifiable? can you make out his face? could he prove its him? Do we know for sure its a guy and not a girl? Sure its arguable this persons rights have been violated, but might be a tough one to prove

thank you Bill Clinton for the security machine known as HIPPA. Help this guy he needs you now! hahah.