The Russian Sleep Experiment

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The Russian Sleep Experiment is an experiment done in the late 1940s one several prisoners of war using a specific type of gas to stop them from sleeping.

The Russian Sleep Experiment
General Information
Origin The Russian Sleep Experiment
Appearance Sealed Chamber
Classification Experimental Gas-Based Stimulant
Notable Characters Four Living Test Subjects
Result Subjects refuse to ever asleep
Test Subjects
“ Have you forgotten so easily? 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. „
~ Final Test Subject in response to who they are
General Information
Origin The Russian Sleep Experiment
Creator Unknown
First Appearance The Russian Sleep Experiment
Time Period Late 1940s
Homeworld Earth
Residence Soviet Union
Language Japanese, German, or Italian
Organization Type Axis Powers
Age Unknown
Members Unnamed
Leader Unnamed
Hierarchy None
Base of Operations Unknown
Affiliations Likely Axis Powers
Enemies Soviet Union
Status Deceased
Alignment Chaotic Evil

Background

This dropdown contains the synopsis of The Russian Sleep Experiment’s story. Read at your own risk as you may be spoiled otherwise!

In the late 1940s, a group of Russian researchers conducted an experiment in which five individuals were kept awake for fifteen consecutive days using a gas-based stimulant. The subjects were confined to a sealed chamber so their oxygen intake could be carefully monitored, since the gas became toxic at high concentrations. Because closed-circuit cameras did not yet exist, the researchers relied on microphones and five-inch-thick glass portholes to observe the chamber. The room was supplied with books, bare cots, running water, a toilet, and enough dried food to sustain all five subjects for over a month.

The test subjects were political prisoners considered enemies of the state during World War II.

For the first five days, everything proceeded normally. The subjects rarely complained, having been falsely promised their freedom if they endured the test and stayed awake for thirty days. Their conversations and activities were monitored, and the researchers noted that they increasingly discussed traumatic events from their pasts. After the fourth day, the general tone of their conversations grew noticeably darker.

After five days, the subjects began complaining about the circumstances that had led them to the facility and displayed severe paranoia. They stopped speaking to one another and took turns whispering into the microphones and one-way mirrored portholes. Strangely, each seemed to believe they could earn the experimenters' trust by betraying their fellow captives. The researchers initially suspected this behavior was caused by the gas itself.

After nine days, the first subject began screaming. He ran the length of the chamber repeatedly, yelling at the top of his lungs for three hours straight. Eventually, he could only produce occasional squeaks, leading the researchers to conclude he had torn his vocal cords. What surprised them most was the lack of reaction from the other captives. They continued whispering into the microphones until the second subject began screaming. The two remaining silent captives then dismantled the books, smeared page after page with their own feces, and calmly pasted them over the glass portholes. The screaming stopped immediately, as did the whispering into the microphones.

Three more days passed, and the researchers checked the microphones hourly to confirm they were still working, since it seemed impossible that five people could be producing no sound. The chamber's oxygen consumption indicated that all five subjects were still alive, and in fact, the oxygen levels matched what five people would consume during strenuous exercise.

On the morning of the fourteenth day, the researchers did something they had said they would not do in order to provoke a reaction. They used the intercom inside the chamber, hoping to elicit a response from people they feared were either dead or in a vegetative state. They announced that the chamber would be opened to test the microphones, instructing the subjects to step away from the door and lie flat on the floor or be shot. Compliance, they said, would earn one of them immediate freedom. To their surprise, a calm voice replied with a single sentence: "We no longer want to be freed."

Debate broke out among the researchers and the military forces funding the project. Unable to provoke any further response through the intercom, they finally decided to open the chamber at midnight on the fifteenth day. The chamber was flushed of the stimulant gas and filled with fresh air. Immediately, voices from the microphones began to object. Three different voices begged, as if pleading for the life of a loved one, for the gas to be turned back on.

The chamber was opened, and soldiers were sent in to retrieve the test subjects. The screaming intensified, and so did the soldiers' screams when they saw what was inside.

The five test subjects were political prisoners classified as enemies of the state during World War II. Their identities remain unknown. They were selected for the experiment under the false promise that they would be freed after thirty days of enforced wakefulness. Over the course of the experiment, all five subjects exhibited escalating paranoia, self-harm, and eventually a complete breakdown of normal human behavior. By the end, four of the five were still technically alive, though in a state that could not reasonably be described as life. They had removed and consumed portions of their own flesh, torn away their skin and muscle, and removed their abdominal organs while keeping themselves alive through sheer refusal to sleep. When finally removed from the chamber, three survived the initial struggle, though all continued to beg for the gas to be turned back on, fearing sleep more than death. Two of the three died shortly afterward—one during surgery and one from falling asleep. The final subject was shot by a researcher after delivering a cryptic monologue suggesting that the experiment had awakened something primal within them.

Appearance

An unseeable gas.

General Description: The Test Subjects are humanoid figures in a severely emaciated and mutilated state. Their skin is pale, yellowish, and appears taut over their bones, giving them a gaunt and withered appearance.

Facial Features: They have sunken, wide eyes with yellowish-green irises and discolored skin around the sockets. Their mouths are torn open, revealing gums and teeth with a yellowish tint. Some have visible wounds or torn flesh around the jaw and cheeks.

Physical Features: Their bodies are extremely thin, with visible ribs and joints. They wear heavy leather straps or harnesses around their torsos and limbs, as well as metal shackles around their ankles. Their feet are bare and appear bruised or discolored. They are often depicted in a crouched or sitting position.

General Information

Name: The Russian Sleep Experiment

Origin: The Russian Sleep Experiment

Appearance: Sealed Chamber

Classification: Experimental Gas-Based Stimulant

Notable Characters: Four Living Test Subjects

Result: Subjects refuse to ever asleep

Name: Unknown

Other Name: Test Subjects

Origin: The Russian Sleep Experiment

First Appearance: The Russian Sleep Experiment

Latest Appearance: The Russian Sleep Experiment

Company: N/A

Creator: Unknown

Time Period: Late 1940s

Timeline: Main Timeline

Homeworld: Earth

Residence: Soviet Union

Story Role: Test Subjects

Legacy: Unknown Legacy

Influence: Event Influence

Language: Either Japanese, German, or Italian (They were political prisoner declared enemies of the state during World War II which would be these groups)

Ethnicity: Either Japanese, German, or Italian

Organization Type: Axis Powers

Age: Unknown

Members: Unnamed

Leader: Unnamed

Hierarchy: None

Base of Operations: Unknown

Affiliations: Likely Axis Powers

Enemies: Soviet Union

Status: Deceased (All remaining test subjects were killed)

Date of Death: Late 1940s

Alignment: Chaotic Evil (They are likely members of the Axis Powers, who committed some of the most horrific crimes in World War II)

Threat Level: Street Threat

Archetype: Deranged Entities

Codex Statistics

Tiering System: N/A

Attack Potency: N/A

Attack Speed: N/A

Range: Standard Melee

Tier: 9-C

Cardinality: Finite

Dimensionality: 3-D

Power Source: Experimental Gas

Attack Potency: Bone level (Ripped one of the Russian soldiers throat out and ripped another testicles off and an artery in their leg was severely injured by one of the subject's teeth)

Durability: High Subhuman level (Despite their superhuman strength, they are greatly tearing their muscles and breaking their bones when doing anything, only not feeling it due to their immense pain tolerance)

Striking Strength: Bone Class

Lifting Strength: Superhuman Class (Ripped one of the Russian soldiers throat out and ripped another testicles off. Tore through most of the four-inch wide leather strap on one wrist despite it being the weight of a 200 pound soldier holding that wrist)

Travel Speed: Average Human Speed

Attack Speed: Average Human Speed

Reaction Speed: Average Human Reactions

Stamina: Superhuman (Remained alive even after staying awake for 14 days, not wanting to go back to sleep)

Range: Standard Melee

Intelligence: Average Intelligence

Knowledge: Journeyman level

Powers and Techniques



Equipment

Nothing notable.

Notable Techniques

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Other

Standard Tactics: They will viciously attack anyone that tries to take them away from the gas or tries to put them to sleep.

Weaknesses: Despite their superhuman strength, they are greatly tearing their muscles and breaking their bones when doing anything, only not feeling it due to their immense pain tolerance. They are terrified greatly of being put to sleep, rather staying awake through an entire surgery. They seemingly want to be hurt begging the surgeons to keep cutting them. They will keep injuring themselves in order to remain awake doing things such as ripping out their own guts.

Trivia

  • According to the Creepypasta wiki, the author who wrote the story remains anonymous.
    • However, a British writer named Holly Ice published a book with the same title as the Creepypasta story. Many people assumed she was also the original author of the Creepypasta, until she clarified that she had merely drawn inspiration from it and was not its creator.
  • The notorious image of one of the Test Subjects smiling on a bed is widely regarded as one of the most unsettling images to come out of the Creepypasta community. The figure in the image is actually a sculpture called "Spasm," created by Morbid Enterprises in 2005 for a Halloween celebration.

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