The urban legend claims that in the late 1940s, Soviet researchers sealed five political prisoners in an airtight gas chamber. They were promised freedom if they could stay awake for 30 days using an experimental stimulant gas.
Despite looking like a real historical account, the entire story is a fabrication.
A subject famously whispered that they represented the innate evil inside the human mind that is only kept at bay by sleep. 💻 The Reality: Born on the Internet The Soviet Sleep Experiment
One subject screamed until his vocal cords physically tore.
The subjects talked normally, but conversations grew darker. The urban legend claims that in the late
The best-documented real-world case of extreme sleeplessness belongs to a 17-year-old named Randy Gardner , who stayed awake for in 1964. Under the supervision of Stanford sleep researcher Dr. William Dement, Gardner experienced:
According to the story, the results were pure nightmare fuel: A subject famously whispered that they represented the
The story was first posted in 2010 on the Creepypasta Wiki by a user known as "OrangeSoda".