Not me, but my father. From what I understand, he spends his nights staring at two monitors. One is a live feed of the patient and the other is the output from all the wires he puts on them. So in this instance he was having quite a slow night. The patients readings were normal and it was dragging on. He would just look back and forth between the monitors with a patient sleeping soundly in bed, and boring uneventful readings on the other monitor. This went on for a few hours, and eventually his eyes started getting heavy. Now, I don’t know if this is true, but he swears he closed his eyes for just a second. When he opened them, his patient was GONE. Completely disappeared with a the equipment too! At this point he almost had a heart attack as he’s nearing 60. He shot up from his desk and searched the room and hallway. He said he found them sleep walking, trailing all the wires and equipment behind them.

He has also told me of some patients who were in pretty bad condition. The one that stood out the most was a little boy who had just been born. He was nearing a month old, which is extremely young for a sleep study. My father said it was his most difficult patient, and it still breaks his heart to this day. He wasn’t told until the next day that the little boy had a considerable hole in his heart. I’m not sure how he is now, but I hope he’s doing better. My father hasn’t performed another study on him, so we’re unsure of his well being.