Wierdest Experiments

It sounds like the ideal job for coach potatoes: the 11 men who were selected to take part in this experiment in January 1986 were required to go to bed and lie there – for a whole year. They spent 370 days and nights in this position, without ever getting up or even sitting up. They were washed lying down, and ate, read, watched television and wrote letters in a prone position.

The participants were aged between 27 and 42, and several of them were doctors themselves. Most had wives and children, whom they only got to see once a week, on Sundays. Some marriages didn’t survive the strain. And one of the men fell in love with a researcher who was working on the project.

A mad, mad, mad world . com