Everything but sleep

This is the classic memeory test exercise

Equipment: Pen and paper

Instruct participants to be prepared for a memory test. Show the words for 5 seconds and then instruct to write down as many as they can remember.

Ask: Put hand up of you have slumber? Bed? Sleep?

Invariably some will have sleep....yet it isn't there.

Q: Why does this happen?

Our mind is a pattern spotting machine.

When under pressure we fill in the gaps...