As The Raven Dreams Podcast - Creepypasta Day Special - A Certain Story About Lack Of Sleep | #Creepypasta

Starting point is 00:00:00 Hey there, friends. Today is actually creepypasta day. Did you know that? Do you know that's actually a thing? It is actually a thing. So, in lieu of the normal Wednesday content, today we're going to do a very, very well-known, well-loved classic creepy pasta. You guys have probably heard this one done to death by other narrators, but it's one of my favorites. It's one that was recommended to me as well. and I kind of wanted to do it. I don't know any other time I would ever do it on my channel, so I feel like October 13th, creepypasta day is the best day to do it. So, without any further hesitation, let's get on to the story and hopefully you all enjoy. Today's story is the Russian sleep experiment. By author Unknown.

Starting point is 00:01:02 Russian researchers in the late 19th, The 1440s kept five people awake for 15 days, using an experimental gas-based stimulant. They were kept in sealed environments to carefully monitor their oxygen intake so the gas didn't kill them, since it was toxic in high concentrations. This was before closed-circuit cameras, so they only had microphones and five-inch-thick glass porthole-sized windows, into the chambers to monitor them. The chamber was stocked with books, cots to sleep on, but no bedding, running water and a toilet,

Starting point is 00:01:46 and enough dried food to last all of them for over a month. The test subjects were political prisoners, deemed enemies of the state during World War II. 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 and activities were monitored, and it was noted that they continued to talk about increasingly traumatic incidents in their past, and the general tone of their conversations took on a darker aspect after the four-day mark.

Starting point is 00:02:29 After five days, they started to complain about the circumstances and events that led them to where they were, and they started to demonstrate severe paranoia. They stopped talking to each other, and began alternately whispering to the microphones and one-way mirrored portholes. Oddly, they all seemed to think that they could win the trust of the experimenters by turning over their comrades, the other subjects in captivity with them. At first, the researchers suspected this was an effect of the gas itself. After nine days, the first of them started screaming. He ran the length of the chamber, repeatedly yelling at the top of his lungs for three hours straight.

Starting point is 00:03:19 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 surprising thing about this behavior is how the other captives reacted to it, or rather, didn't react to it. They continued whispering to the microphones until the second of the captives started to scream. The two non- screaming captives took the books apart, smeared page after page with their own feces and pasted them calmly over the glass portholes. The screaming promptly stated.

Starting point is 00:03:58 So did the whispering to the microphones. After three more days passed, the researchers checked the microphones hourly to make sure they were working, since they thought it impossible that no sound could be coming with five people inside. The oxygen consumption in the chamber indicated that all five must still be alive. In fact, it was the amount of oxygen five people would consume at a very heavy level of strenuous exercise. On the morning of the 14th day, the researchers did something they said they would not do to get a reaction from the captives. They used the intercom inside the chamber, hoping to provoke any response from the captives that they were afraid were either dead or vegetables. They announced,

Starting point is 00:04:49 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 their surprise, they heard a single phrase in a calm voice response. We no longer want to be free. Debate broke out among the researchers and the military forces funding the research. Unable to provoke any more response using the intercom, it was finally decided to open the chamber at midnight on the 15th day.

Starting point is 00:05:27 The chamber was flushed of the stimulant gas and filled with fresh air, and immediately voices from the microphones began to object. Three different voices began begging, as if pleading for the life of loved ones to turn the gas back on. The chamber was opened and soldiers sent in to retrieve the test subjects. They began to scream louder than ever, and so did the soldiers when they saw what was inside. Four of the five subjects were still alive, although no one could rightly call the state that any of them were in life. The food rations past five days had not been so much as touched. There were chunks of meat from the dead test subjects' thighs and chest stuffed into the drain in the center of the chamber, blocking the drain and allowing four inches of water to accumulate on the floor.

Starting point is 00:06:29 Precisely how much of the water on the floor was actually blood was never determined. All four surviving test subjects also had large portions of muscle and skin torn away from their bodies. The destruction of flesh and exposed bone on their fingertips indicated that the wounds were inflicted by hand. not with teeth, as the researchers had initially thought. Closer examination of the position and angle of the wounds indicated that most, if not all of them, were self-inflicted. The abdominal organs below the ribcage of all four test subjects had been removed. While the heart, lungs, and diaphragm remained in place, the skin in most of the muscles attached to the ribs had been removed. had been ripped off,

Starting point is 00:07:22 exposing the lungs through the ribcage. All the blood vessels and organs remained intact. They had just been taken out and laid on the floor, fanning out around the eviscerated but still living bodies of the subjects. The digestive tract of all four could be seen to be working, digesting food. It quickly became apparent that what they were digesting, was their own flesh that they had ripped off and eaten over the course of days.

Starting point is 00:07:57 Most of the soldiers were Russian special operatives at the facility, but still many refused to return to the chamber to remove the test subjects. They continued to scream to be left in the chamber, and alternately begged and demanded that the gas be turned back on lest they fall asleep. To everyone's surprise, the test subjects put it, up a fierce fight in the process of being removed from the chamber. One of the Russian soldiers died from having his throat ripped out. Another was gravely injured by having his testicles ripped off and an artery in his leg

Starting point is 00:08:34 severed by one of the subject's teeth. Another five of the soldiers lost their lives if you count ones that committed suicide in the weeks following the incident. In the struggle, one of the four living subjects had his spleen ruptured, And he bled out almost immediately. The medical researchers attempted to sedate him, but this proved impossible. He was injected with more than ten times the human dose of a morphine derivative and still fought like a cornered animal, breaking the ribs in arm of one doctor.

Starting point is 00:09:13 His heart was seen to beat for a full two minutes after he had bled out, to the point that there was more air in his vast, system than blood. Even after it stopped, he continued to scream and flail for another three minutes, struggling to attack anyone in reach and just repeating the word

Starting point is 00:09:32 more, over and over, weaker and weaker, until he finally fell silent. The surviving three test subjects were heavily restrained and moved to a medical facility. The two, with intact vocal cords, continuously begging for the gas demanding to be kept awake.

Starting point is 00:09:53 The most injured of the three was taken to the only surgical operating room the facility had. In the process of preparing the subject to have his organs placed back within his body, it was found that he was effectively immune to the sedative they had given him

Starting point is 00:10:08 to prepare for the surgery. He had fought furiously against the restraints when the anesthetic gas was brought out to put him under. He managed to tear most of the way through the four-inch-wide leather strap on one wrist, even through the weight of a 200-pound soldier holding that wrist as well. It took only a little more anesthetic than normal to put him under,

Starting point is 00:10:33 and the instant his eyelids fluttered and closed, his heart stopped. In the autopsy of the test subject that died on the operating table, it was found that his blood had triple the normal level of oxygen, His muscles that were still attached to his skeleton were badly torn, and he had broken nine bones in his struggle to not be subdued. Most of them were from the force that his own muscles had exerted on them. The second survivor had been the first of the group of five to start screaming. His vocal cords destroyed he was unable to beg or object to surgery,

Starting point is 00:11:12 and he only reacted by shaking his head violently in disapproval when the anesthetic gats. was brought near him. His head shook yes when someone suggested, reluctantly, that they try the surgery without anesthetic and did not react for the entire six-hour procedure of replacing his abdominal organs and attempting to cover them with what remained of his skin. The surgeon presiding stated repeatedly

Starting point is 00:11:39 that it should be medically impossible for the patient to still be alive. One terrified nurse assisting the surgery stated that she had seen the patient's mouth curl into a smile several times whenever his eyes met hers. When the surgery ended, the subject looked at the surgeon and began to wheeze loudly, attempting to talk while struggling. Assuming this must be something of drastic importance, the surgeon had a pen and pad fetched so the patient could write his message. It was simple. Keep cutting. The other two test subjects were given the same surgery, both without anesthetic as well,

Starting point is 00:12:23 although they had to be injected with the paralytic for the duration of the operation. The surgeon found it impossible to perform the operation while the patients laughed continuously. Once paralyzed, the subjects could only follow the attending researchers with their eyes. The paralytic cleared their system in an abnormally short period of time, and they were soon trying to escape their bonds. The moment they could speak, they were again asking for the stimulant gas. The researchers tried asking why they had injured themselves, why they had ripped out their own guts,

Starting point is 00:12:58 and why they wanted to be given the gas again, and only one response was given. I must remain awake. All three test subjects' restraints were reinforced, and they were placed back into the chamber awaiting determining, nation as to what should be done with them. The researchers facing the wrath of their military benefactors for having failed the stated goals of their project considered euthanizing the surviving subjects.

Starting point is 00:13:29 The commanding officer, an ex-KGB, instead saw potential and wanted to see what would happen if they were put back on the gas. The researchers strongly objected, but were overruled. In preparation for being sealed in the chamber again, the subjects were connected to an EEG monitor and had their restraints padded for long-term confinement. To everyone's surprise, all three stopped struggling the moment it was let slip that they were going back on the gas. It was obvious that at this point all three were putting up a great struggle to stay awake. One of the subjects that could speak was humming loudly and condescels.

Starting point is 00:14:13 continuously. The mute subject was straining his legs against the leather bonds with all his might, first left, then right, then left again for something to focus on. The remaining subject was holding his head off his pillow and blinking rapidly. Having been the first to be wired for EEG, most of the researchers were monitoring his brainwaves and surprise. They were normal most of the time, but sometimes they flatlined inexplicably. It looked as if he were repeatedly suffering brain death before returning to normal. As they focused on paper scrolling out of the brainwave monitor, only one nurse saw his eyes slip shut at the same moment his head hit the pillow.

Starting point is 00:15:00 His brainwaves immediately changed to that of deep sleep, then flatlined for the last time as his heart simultaneously stopped. The only remaining subject that could speak started screaming to be sealed in now, His brainwaves showed the same flatlines as the one who had just died from falling asleep. The commander gave the order to steal the chamber with both subjects inside, as well as three researchers. One of the named three immediately drew his gun and shot the commander point blank between the eyes, then turned the gun on the mute subject and blew his brains out as well. He pointed his gun at the remaining subject still restrained to the bed,

Starting point is 00:15:41 as the remaining members of the medical and researcher team fled the room. I won't be locked in here with these things. Not with you! He screamed at the man strapped to the table. What are you? he demanded. I must know. The subject smiled. Have you forgotten so easily?

Starting point is 00:16:04 The subject asked. We are you. We are the madness that lurks within you all. Begging to be free at every moment in your deepest animal mind. We are what you hide from in your beds every night. We are what you sedate into silence and paralysis when you go to the nocturnal haven where we cannot tread. The researcher paused and then aimed at the subject's heart and fired. The EEG flatlined, as the searcher paused.

Starting point is 00:16:41 subject weakly choked out. So nearly free. So that was my interpretation of the Russian sleep experiment. Very good story. Absolute classic.

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As The Raven Dreams Podcast - Creepypasta Day Special - A Certain Story About Lack Of Sleep | #Creepypasta

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