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a recent morning, he tried to guess what stage of sleep the nappers onboard were in. He said that to reach Stage 1 sleep, the least restorative of the five stages, riders must be able to slow down the ir eye movements. To get Stage 2 sleep, riders mus t relax their muscles and stop moving their eyes e ntirely. As Dr. Bazil watched the riders sitting across fro m him, the nappers’ eyelids fluttered when train d oors opened. The riders also seemed to clench thei r messenger bags and backpacks with death grips. “I suspect all you get is Stage 1 sleep; it’s not going to be restorative,” he said. “It’s kind of w asted sleep.” At a reporter’s request, Dr. Bazil wired up a slee py subway rider to study his brain waves as he tri ed to nap. He enlisted Dr. Brandon Foreman, a 30-y ear-old neurology fellow, whose 2-year-old son, Ju de, still does not sleep through the night. Neithe r does Dr. Foreman. But he has observed how the subway lulls his son t o sleep, so he tries to replicate the train’s stop s and jerks when he puts his son to bed. Dr. Forem an is no stranger to subway napping: He began doin g so when commuting from Brooklyn during his resid ency, and said he coveted any sleep he could get. “Lectures, classes, I can pretty much sleep anywhe re,” Dr. Foreman said. “But it’s not usually a gre at sleep. It’s more the nodding off.” Both doctors met at the end of a long workweek aft er Dr. Foreman had been up every night dealing wit h his son’s cold. As Dr. Foreman yawned, Dr. Bazil had a technician attach 25 multicolored plastic w ires to Dr. Foreman’s head, connecting them to a m onitor slightly larger than an iPod to track his b rain waves. Then Dr. Foreman covered the wires wit
h a long sock and a winter hat. The pair got onto a southbound A train at 207th St reet. After Dr. Foreman chose a corner seat, Dr. B azil sat across from him to take notes. When the t rain left the station at 6:09 p.m., it seemed unli kely that Dr. Foreman would get any sleep. The tra in’s operator screeched the cars along as if she w ere training for Formula One. She shouted into the loudspeakers that her train was late, and peeled from stop to stop. Dr. Foreman yawned, folded his arms, crossed his l egs and shut his eyes. He opened his eyes when the train stopped. His eyes fluttered when several ne urologists boarded and chatted over his shoulder. The train jostled. He opened his eyes and yawned d eeply. By 6:18 p.m., two minutes after Dr. Foreman left t he 168th Street station, he looked as if he was fa lling asleep. He first held his head up and kept h is arms crossed. But he let his head nod back and forth slightly. Then his head fell, and he dozed u ntil 59th Street — no doubt aided by the uninterru pted run from 125th Street. As the doors opened at 59th Street, Dr. Foreman jumped up and hopped off the train. After they briefly celebrated what looked like a s uccessful subway nap, the doctors boarded an uptow n train to see if Dr. Foreman could fall asleep ag ain. Dr. Foreman found a seat lodged between two p assengers. He put on his jacket hood, crossed his legs, folded his arms and let his head fall. While the conductor was quieter on this train, Dr. Fore man could not get back to sleep. At 145th Street, when a vendor stood before him and shouted that he was selling four DVDs for $10, Dr. Foreman opened his eyes widely. “No luck,” he said.
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