Early Risers

In the movies The Invasion and Invasion of the Body Snatchers (all science fiction) if you went to sleep you wouldn't wake up but an exact duplicate would appear with all your memories and knowledge. Your body would be covered by a silky cocoon like material until you suffocated to death. The new mutant would be able to communicate with other replacements. Once they took over enough of us then they would hunt the remaining humans down, force them to go to sleep and they would become mutants.

We're sorry to tell you this but its begun. They're here! Thankfully we've got a little time. This "mutation" is genetic (like in the movies) and runs only in families (so far a mother and daughter - that we know about). This mutation makes you able to exists on less sleep than we normal humans.

One of us overslept this morning and the others got up on time so we're probably ok. We're waiting on the discovery of the gene that make humans require more sleep rather than less like these mutants. Then we can make everyone need more rather than less sleep. Until then we'll be afraid - we'll be very afraid.

This is news has been released just in time for the release of the new movie District 9 where we place all aliens in their own ghetto for "the good of mankind." Interestingly enough the discovered gene has been named "DEC2." Discovery is the first step before the gene can be created into a pill or some other way like maybe plastic surgery where we can alter either our genes or the genes of our unborn children to give them the advantage of needing less sleep.

For the really boring and scientific "Supporting Online Material" you can download the PDF yourself it just made us sleepy, very very sleepy, our eye lids were getting heavy, very very heavy. The next thing we knew we were yawning and YAWNNNNN...