How do you spend the night in a sleep lab?

How bad is it instead of just taking the machine home and sleeping with it and returning it? I would rather take the machine home but trying to coordinate a good day/time to do this along with all the other testing required is driving me nuts! I have to work for a living and can't take tons of time off to drive for an hour, pick up the machine by a certain time, drive back an hour, sleep with it, drive it back the next day, return and get to work. That said, I am considering sleeping in a lab for my study that's 10 minutes from home. Any good/bad stuff to say about sleeping in a lab? Do I really want to do that or should I just take the inconvenience of all the driving and making up some more time at work?

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