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...