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1 Preparing to Prank
Perhaps the most iconic of sleepover pranks, tricking 2 Dipping the Sleeper’s Hand in Warm

your snoozing friends into peeing themselves has an Water

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1 Preparing to Prank

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1 Drink plenty of liquids before bed. This prank definitely won’t work if your prankee
goes to bed with an empty bladder. To avoid suspicion, you should offer plenty of
soda, water, tea, or juice to everyone at the sleepover throughout the night (not just the
person you’re looking to prank), and drink plenty yourself.
When you need to use the bathroom, make an excuse or sneak away when
possible, to avoid putting the idea of using the bathroom in anybody else’s mind.
Other snacks with high water content, like yogurt and soup, are great choices as
well. Watermelon is particularly saturated in it (as its name might imply) so
supplying everyone with watermelon slices before bed is a low-key method to
enable your mischief. [2]

2 Stay up late. If a particularly early bedtime has been set, it can be difficult to tell if
your bunkmates are asleep or just lying there wide awake with their eyes shut. Stay
up late, if possible, so that friends only fall asleep when they’re obviously tired (sometimes
right in their seat, while still holding their Nintendo controller).

3 Keep the target (the “prankee”) occupied. Tired friends who are entertained (such
as by a movie or game) are less likely to use the bathroom before they fall asleep,
ensuring they’ll go to sleep with plenty of liquids in them.
Take care not to overplay your hand. Too much attention focused on how much a
particular friend is drinking, or repeatedly stopping them from using the bathroom
can give you away.
If you don’t want to single any one person out beforehand, playing games with the
group so that everyone is suitably occupied is a viable tactic.

4 Ensure the prankee is asleep. This only has a chance of working if the intended
target is actually sleeping. Listen for telltale snores, or look for a slack, open mouth.
Quietly call their name if you’re unsure.

Part
2 Dipping the Sleeper’s Hand in Warm Water

1 Fill up a bowl with warm water. A plastic bowl is better than a cup, since it has more
room for the hand, and being plastic means it won’t be cracked if it’s knocked over.
You don’t want your parents (or your friend’s parents) bringing you down after a successful
prank because you used a nice ceramic bowl, and the prankee jolted awake and cracked
the bowl.
Although it’s a bit of speculation (as the efficacy of this prank is disputable), if this
prank works it’s likely through the power of suggestion. The same mechanism is
what can make us want to pee when we hear running water. [3]
The water must be warm, but it should never be hot. Hot water could burn your
friend.

2 Bring the warm water quietly into the room. Even if you don’t wake the victim, you
always run the risk of waking someone else who would witness your part in this
prank. Only you can determine whether this is an issue or not, as it depends only on how
secretive you’re aiming to be.

3 Clear the splash zone. It’s highly likely for the prankee to knock the bowl over,
intentionally or not, so you don’t want anything to get ruined if this happens. Delicately
move everything you’d mind getting soggy out of the vicinity (a five-foot radius around the
sleeper should be safe), taking special care to ensure all electronics are out of the way.

4 Place the sleeper’s hand into the water. You must contend now with the position
your prankee has fallen asleep in. There are any number of possible arm placements;
calmly assess the situation to find the easiest way to get their hand into the water.
If their hand is dangling from a bed, you might be able to slide the bowl right
underneath it.
If it’s hanging slack from a bunk bed or over the arm of a sofa, you might need to
stack some books underneath the bowl to reach their hand, or place the bowl onto
a stool.
If it’s not dangling, take care! Be very gentle as you aim to reposition their hand and
arm so that it can drape into the bowl. Take a position that will allow you to feign
sleep (or quickly hide) if they awake.
If it’s under their head or body, you’re probably not going to succeed in moving it.
Bide your time, or find a new person to prank.

5 Feign sleep. It would probably be wise to hop back into bed at this point, and pretend
you played no part in what’s about to unfold. If questioned, why, you were in bed the
whole time!

6 Keep the secret. Part of the fun with this prank is everybody's uncertainty about
whether or not it will even work. Keeping the success or failure of your quest to
achieve bed-wettage a secret helps to maintain that aura of mystery, so don't spread the
word!
Keeping quiet also avoids shaming or bullying the prankee afterward, which is
important. Bullying goes against the spirit of pranking, and is never acceptable.

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Does the water need to be hot?

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Cold water will not work. Warm water is fine. If the water is too hot, it could burn the person
or wake him/her up.
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Does this actually make a person wet himself, or is it just his wet hand touching his
bits?

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It should cause a person to wet himself, as it's a natural reaction to having his hand in warm
water.
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Question

I heard you're supposed to put both hands in warm water. Is this true or will just one
work?

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You can do both, but just one should work. Doing both has a higher chance of waking the
victim up, so it's preferred to do just one.
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It’s not considerate to play this prank on a friend who has actual problems with bed-wetting.
Shame and embarrassment could make their real issue tougher for them to conquer. [4]

If you’re suspecting this prank may be played upon you, try to sleep on your hands, and
always remember to use the bathroom before going to sleep.

Don’t single out friends or people who you don’t believe will find a prank war fun, or who you
believe will have difficulty dealing with the embarrassment. Pranks should not be cruel, and
should ideally be fun in some capacity for everyone (as the victim, there can be plenty of fun
in plotting prank revenge).

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References

1. ↑ http://www.discovery.com/tv-shows/mythbusters/mythbusters-database/hand-water-asleep-
urinate/
2. ↑ http://wonderopolis.org/wonder/how-much-water-is-in-a-watermelon
3. ↑ http://mentalfloss.com/article/51268/does-hand-warm-water-trick-really-work
4. ↑ http://www.parenting.com/article/how-to-help-kids-stop-wetting-the-bed

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