There isn't a "Weird Science" category, so I am putting this under Weekend Update.

I was cleaning my bedroom and took the pillowcase off of my memory foam pillow, finding I had shed a number of hairs THROUGH the case. Thinking about the wiley way that down feathers often worth their way through fabric, it seemed pretty normal that hair, when crushed under the weight of my gigantic head, could make its way fully through the case, onto the visco-elastic foam.

I laughed, as the hair, sparse, but evenly distrubuted, made the pillow look like a burley man's back. Well, if burly mens' back hair was around 4" long. Wait.. but ALL of the hairs are 4" long, and my hair is quite a bit longer than that. Still, it had to be MY hair as the colour and texture was identical. I started trying to pull them off the pillow, only to notice that they were pretty well stuck. I figured while compressing the foam, it probably caught the stray ends, and now, the pillow uncompressed, the hair was squeezed in the foam's porous surface.

Unable to get a grip on the hairs unless I plucked them one at a time. They were more solidly anchored in the pillow than in my own head. I began to look at them as I pulled them out. 3 in a row came out with the root end buried in the pillow.. Now 5 more.. They ALL are in the pillow root end first! And not just in the surface. Most of them pulled out 3/4" to a full inch (or more) before the root popped free of the surface. My hair left my head and burrowed into my pillow, like some kind of snake! Visions from Creepshow began to play in my head as I manically pulled these hairs out. Some of them broke off instead of coming out by the root, and a couple of the broken ones even seemed to burrow deeper into the pillow after they snapped, their tail ends disappearing into the yellow-white foam. The ripples in the foam were like the furrows of a field, and I was the hair farmer. Today was harvest day.