You can calculate your own risk of death using Carnegie Mellon’s death calculator at

www.deathriskrankings.com .

The story of Muhammad’s pitcher is referred to in part 2, chapter 5 of Dostoevsky’s

The Idiot . More information on testing the duration of dream time can be found in Stephen LaBerge, 'Lucid Dreaming: Evidence and Methodology’,

Behavioral and Brain Sciences,

23(6) (2000): 962-3. The same author’s

Lucid Dreaming (Ballantine, 1985) is a more popular treatment of various aspects of lucid dreaming.

How to keep the brains of guinea-pigs alive in a jar is described in M. Mühlethaler, M. de Curtis, K. Walton, and R. Llinás, 'The Isolated and Perfused Brain of the Guinea-Pig in Vitro’,

European Journal of Neuroscience,

5(7) (2006): 915-26.

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