Your body, at the Earth's potential
Barefoot on grass, the body is at the same electrical potential as the ground. The sheet does the same in bed: the silver thread connects by cable to the ground port of the wall outlet. In volunteers, connecting a conductor to the skin lowered the body's electrical potential to about −200 mV and it returned to its value on disconnecting. The current that flows is in the nanoamps, too small to feel.



