Name: ロシアの睡眠実験 (The Russian Sleep Experiment)
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Stalinist Soviet researchers in the late 1940's kept five people awake for 15 days using an

experimental gas-based stimulant. These people, or rather test subjects, were political prisoners

deemed to be enemies of the state during World War II. They were kept in a sealed environment

and carefully monitored. Their oxygen intake was regulated so the gas didn't kill them,

since it was highly toxic mixed with oxygen. The levels were watched closely. This was

before closed-circuit cameras, so the monitoring was achieved through microphones and porthole-sized

windows in the walls of the chamber. These were made with five-inch thick glass. The

chamber was stocked with books. They had running water along with a toilet. There were also

cots to sleep on, but no bedding, along with enough dried food rations to last all five

test subjects for over a month. Everything was fine for the first five days;

the subjects hardly complained, having been promised falsely that they would be freed

if they submitted to the test and did not sleep for 30 days. Their conversations were

listened to. Their activities were watched. The researchers noted that, with each passing

day, the subjects spoke increasingly about traumatic incidents in their past. They discussed

things usually hidden deep within the psyche, not easily revealed to strangers.

After five days, the subjects started to complain about the circumstances and events that led

them to where they were. They increasingly demonstrated severe paranoia. Soon, they stopped

talking to each other and began alternately whispering to the microphones and peeking

through the one-way mirrored portholes in the chamber. Oddly, they all seemed to think

they could win the trust of the researchers by turning over their comrades. They began

betraying the other subjects in captivity with them. At first, the researchers suspected

this was an effect of the gas itself, but more time was needed before they could draw

any conclusions. After nine days, the first of the subjects

started screaming as though he were in mortal danger. He ran the length of the chamber,

repeatedly yelling at the top of his lungs. After this prolonged behavior went on for

what seemed like hours, he continued attempting to scream, but was only able to produce occasional

squeaks. The researchers postulated that he had physically torn his vocal cords. The most

startling thing about this behavior was the other subject's reaction to it, or rather,

lack thereof. They continued whispering to the microphones until another of them started

to scream. The two who remained silent calmly took the books in the chamber apart, smeared

page after page with their own filth, and pasted them carefully over the glass portholes.

The screaming promptly stopped. So did the whispering into the microphones. The chamber

went silent. After three more days passed, the researchers

decided to start checking the microphones hourly to make sure they were working, since

they thought it impossible that no sound could be coming from the chamber with five people

inside of it. When checking an oxygen monitoring device connected to the chamber, the researchers

noted oxygen consumption rates which indicated the subjects were consuming oxygen at the

rate of individuals engaged in strenuous exercise. This worried the researchers immensely.

On the morning of the 14th day, in an attempt to get a reaction from the subjects, the researchers

did something they had initially agreed not to; they used the intercom inside the chamber

to speak directly to the subjects. There was real fear the test subjects may have died

or gone into a vegetative state. That would have been frowned upon by the funder of this

endeavor, who had arrived to see the results of the experiment. The lead researcher nervously

announced, "We are opening the chamber to test the microphones. Step away from the door

and lie flat on the floor or you will be shot. Compliance will earn one of you your immediate

freedom." To the researchers' surprise, a calm voice

responded with a single phrase: "We no longer want to be freed..."

Debate broke out amongst the researchers and the military forces funding the research over

how to handle this development. For the time being, the subjects would remain exposed to

the gas. After finding it impossible to provoke any more responses from the subjects using

the intercom, it was decided that the chamber would be opened at midnight the 15th day.

When the clock struck midnight, the chamber was flushed of the stimulant gas and filled

with fresh air. Immediately, voices from the microphones began to object. Three different

voices began begging, as if pleading for the lives of their loved ones, for the gas to

be turned back on. Undeterred by these protests, the researchers ordered the chamber opened

and soldiers were sent in to remove the subjects, who proceeded to scream louder than ever.

The soldiers, normally extremely disciplined and emotionally neutral, began to scream as

well when they saw what was inside the chamber. Only four of the five subjects were still

alive, and, of those four, what remained made several of the soldiers recoil and vomit.

The food rations past day five had not been touched. The body of the dead subject had

been torn to pieces. There were chunks of flesh from his thighs and chest stuffed into

the drain in the center of the chamber, thoroughly blocking it. This had allowed four inches

of soupy red fluid to accumulate on the floor. Precisely how much of the detritus on the

floor was actually blood was never determined. All four surviving subjects also had large

portions of muscle and skin torn away from their bodies as well. The destruction of flesh

and exposed bone on their finger tips was initially believed to be caused by teeth.

It was later determined to have been caused by using their fingers to pierce their own

flesh. Closer examination of the position and angle of wounds on the dead subject indicated

they were mostly self-inflicted. The heart, lungs and diaphragm of the one

of the subjects remained in place in his chest, but the skin and most of the soft tissue attached

to the ribs had been ripped off. This exposed the lungs through the ribcage. All the blood

vessels and internal organs from below the ribcage remained intact. However, they were

no longer inside his body. His organs had been removed and laid on the floor. They had

been fanned out in random piles around the eviscerated, but still somehow living, body

of the subject. The digestive tract of the unfortunate was spread out across the length

of the chamber. They could be seen to still be digesting food, pulsing and contracting

on the floor. It quickly became apparent that what was being digested was the subject's

own flesh. In spite of most of the soldiers being "spetsoperatsiya,"

Russian Special Operatives, having served in multiple combat operations under the service

of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces during World War 2, many refused orders

to re-enter the chamber. They were exposed to more gore and violence in a few years than

most witness in a lifetime, yet this they could not face.

A few of the soldiers, after being threatened, gave in to their superiors' demands and began

to remove the subjects one-by-one. All the while, the subjects continued to scream to

be left in the chamber. They alternately begged and then demanded that the gas be turned back

on, lest they fall asleep. To everyone's surprise, the subjects put up

a fierce fight in the process of being removed. One of the soldiers died from throat injuries

and another was gravely injured when a subject attacked his groin, severing an artery in

the soldier's leg with his teeth. In total, seven soldiers lost their lives. Two were

massacred that day and five more followed, committing suicide in the weeks following

the incident. In the struggle, the spleen of one of the

subjects was ruptured, and he began to bleed out faster because of his trauma. The medical

team attempted to sedate him, but this proved impossible. The subject was injected with

more than 10 times the dose of a morphine derivative considered to be lethal to humans

and he continued to fight like a cornered animal. His feral thrashings broke the ribs

and arm of an attending doctor. Technically, he bled to death, yet the subject's heart

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