Daring To Dream

I volunteered to be a human research subject on Monday, and had to go through an MRI scan.

(RELATED SINCE I NEED TO COAT MY POCKETS WITH MONEY IN ORDER TO FINANCE MY DREAMS, UNFORTUNATELY.)

Which included this giant scanner thing that I had to go into for over an hour and do certain thinking exercises, and by the end of it, I was shaking and puking up bile into a toilet…BUT HEY, I MADE 100$.

They even sent me a pic of my brain. :D

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So what happened was there were three 18-minute long periods of “testing”.

I was assigned numbers 1, 3, 4, 7, and 8 on my left index finger and 0, 2, 5, 6, and 9 on my right index. Numbers would flash up on an upside-down screen outside the scanner that I was viewing via mirror (I know; crazy, amirite). And depending on what number it was, I would click the button at my left or right hands.

There were also three different categories that would flash up during each 18-minute test interval. Speed was basically where I just clicked the button to see how fast I could do it. Accuracy was where I had to try and get all my answers right. And Balance was a combo between the two.

And then, there was a fourth segment that lasted about 20 minutes. (So, yeah, I was basically dying by then.) It was more of a questionnaire than anything, except I was told to lie about not liking my experience in the scanner since there was a schizophrenic worried about going into the scanner after me.

EXCEPT THERE WAS NO SCHIZO, WUT.

I know, it’s confusing when I don’t explain things thoroughly. But long story short, I got 100$ instead of 75$ (which was what I was told I would get) thanks to the imaginary schizo bit.

And even though the scanner smelled like monkeys and I got all sick after the experiment, the smell had gone away by the time the test ended and I got better soon after, also.

I WOULD DEFINITELY DO IT AGAIN.

(Uh, hello? 100$. Hell, jes.)

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