DJ Duk

January 21, 2005

Hypnothermia

I spoke today with a person convinced that there was no hypothermia. That there was instead hypnothermia. It wasn't Bailey, which is vaguely disappointing.

I like the idea of hypnothermia. For those of you that are curious hypothermia is "hypo," which loosely means "lacking" and "thermo," which is "heat," or more generally "temperature." "Hypno" derives from the word for sleep. Hypnothermia would be a condition of falling asleep at certain temperatures. Think of the possibilities. Thermostats with snooze alarms, covert ops heat pads for quietly nullifying enemy operatives, sudden cases of narcolepsy in the summer, what fun, especially in traffic.

Posted by DjDuk at January 21, 2005 11:44 AM