Mythbusters Reveals If You Can Make Someone Pee In Their Sleep By Dipping Their Hand In Water

August 2024 ยท 1 minute read

Keeping with the theme of human biology, the team also once tested whether dipping a person's hand in a bowl of warm water will cause the person to urinate involuntarily. In other words: can one be forced to unconsciously wet the bed? Leave it to "MythBusters" to answer this question so no one makes a mess at summer camp or at a sleepover.

Myth Results details the episode in which Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman attempted to prove or disprove this old wives' tale. They enlisted the help of the California Center for Sleep Disorders and set up an alarm to ring if it detected moisture. Both guys tested it out on each other once each had reached a deep sleep. The test did not go smoothly, as Savage's sleep apnea got in the way of him sleeping long enough to conduct the test well. Hyneman was only able to pour the water over Savage's hand, which woke him up before the alarm could sense anything.

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