Grant goes into his mid-movie Ordeal feeling abandoned by her. T h e possibility of true love that she represented now seems dead, and it makes his Ordeal, in which he's almost gunned down by a crop-dusting plane in a cornfield, all the more lonely. N E G A T I V E A N I M U S O R ANTMA Sometimes in the journey of our lives we confront negative projections of the anima or animus. T h i s can be a person who attracts us but isn't good for us, or a bitchy or bastardly part of ourselves that suddenly asserts itself like M r . Hyde taking over from Dr. Jekyll. Such a confrontation can be a life-threatening Ordeal in a relationship or in a person's development. T h e hero of Fatal Attraction finds that a casual lover can turn into a lethal force if crossed or rejected. An ideal partner can turn into the Boston Strangler or a loving father can become a killer as in The Shining. 168
--did not appear accurate. Despite claims to the contrary, it didn't appear that the accelerometers could distinguish between simple lack of movement and sleeping. I tested this by watching television for 30 minutes, remaining as perfectly still as possible before attempting to sleep. My "sleep" started roughly when I started watching TV. The rst good news came a week later: the intelligent alarms, Zeo and WakeMate, seemed to reduce grogginess. I was less bastardly in the morning and could think without two cups of co ee. Placebo or true cause and e ect, the "smart alarms" seemed to help. This was an improvement, but I needed better sleep, not just better wake times. This is where the Zeo really became valuable. I began with a trial period of answering a subjective question each morning and assigning a number: do I feel like shit (13) or do I feel awesome (810)? Nebulous answers between 4 and