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What do you think about as you're trying to fall asleep?

In those moments when you're transitioning from consciousness to unconsciousness,

because when I turn out the lights and my head hits the pillow,

I immediately start thinking about all the stuff that's stressing me out.

It could be something you were supposed to finish and you didn't,

something that you got to do tomorrow, that you're not sure you're totally prepped for.

That's what you tend to morals are in your mind.

But the other day, producer Shelby Trainer had me do an experiment where instead of thinking

about all the usual stressful things, I had to play Tetris. And I wasn't allowed to know why.

It was an experiment. I didn't want to tamper with the results. Right. And so you asked me to play

Tetris in the morning and just before going to bed.

Yes. And you weren't the only one. We actually recruited the rest of the science unit to do this as well.

This morning I opened Tetris for the first time and played it for about 10 or 15 minutes.

And first of all, it reminded me of how bad I am at Tetris.

And the other thing I noticed was how quickly I got very

sucked into the game. I played another couple of hours yesterday getting into it trying to get

over 500,000 for a score, not doing too well at that. This is day three of me playing Tetris.

I am not very good. I mean, I'm fine, I guess.

I would give myself like a four out of ten.

Yeah, I'd probably give myself the same score, too.

I wasn't very good.

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