My twisted mind

I participated in a study on diffusion tensor imaging of the adult brain today. It was the first time I've ever been for an MRI...lying still for an hour and a half in a noisy tunnel is quite the Jedi experience. The machine makes different noises as it does different kinds of scans. There was one sound that reminded me of the guitar riff at the beginning of a Smashing Pumpkins song.

My first younger sister also had an MRI recently because she signed up for a sleep deprivation study (college students are great subjects, because for the most part we're young and healthy and willing to do almost anything for cash). "They made us stay up all night then you have to do cognitive tests in the MRI. I fell asleep in the MRI and the voice kept saying "Please respond...please respond..."

Here's a picture of my twisted little mind: