The Russian Sleep Experiment There are many tales of creepy science experiments that go wrong but none other have been quite like The Russian Sleep Experiment, it certainly is frightening and makes one wonder in fear if those atrocities actually happened. A strange experiment had occurred in the 1940’s and has been shrouded in controversy and mystery. Although this story has begun to get more popular over the last couple years its whole entirety has been questioned for a long time. Countless research has been done to try to debunk this story to find out the real truth but the farthest most have gotten is just based on theories only going off of what little detail this story provides us with. Most skeptics claim to believe that this experiment is impossible due to what Brett M. Christensen makes a very solid and to the point conclusion, he states that it is purely a work of fiction, and that no such things could have occurred because of how farfetched this story seems. Christensen says that popular stories can began to be questioned as they rise in fame due to the wide variety of different kinds of people assuming and believing in many different things. A direct quote from him clearly voices his strong opinion, “ The story is fictional. No such experiment took place. None of the claims in the story are based on actual events. The story is a popular Creepypasta offering. Creepypasta describes a genre comprising short - mostly supernatural - stories that are posted by their authors to various online forums.”. Creepypasta’s are stories created by anyone that are shared and most have become very popular such as The Russian Sleep Experiment. None of the creepypasta’s have ever been proven to be true but the fascination and confrontation continue to grow even if the stories seem completely untrue. Controversy can be formed from all the opinions created as well
The effects of this experience, although unethical in its approach to conduct experiment without knowledge to the parents it does not rise to the level of harm. It can, however, be argued that it has had an effect on them emotionally and perhaps they may experience further complications, but far greater atrocities have occurred in the name of science and in this particular case, no credible data ever developed from this experiment due to it being
The Russian Sleep experiment is a urban legend. It is about Russians doing a experiment of sleep deprivation on war prisoners.
The storyteller was an eighteen-year old male attending the University. Currently a sophomore, he was raised as a Catholic in Maryland. Upon visiting me a couple of weeks ago on a Saturday night, we relaxed over some calzones in my dorm as we began to watch television and listen to music. Flipping through the channels, we came across the Sci-Fi network, sparking a sudden interest in both of us to talk about scary stories. We began to discuss the local urban legends, myths, and horror stories that we knew, and he began to tell a story that he heard from a friend down in South Carolina during his freshman year. It went like this.
The storyteller made the legend very believable in the way she described young women who I know who have had ghost encounters.
Several years ago I viewed the video of Jane Elliot’s experiment with her third graders and I was
Up to 60 percent of people have experienced sleep paralysis. Sleep paralysis transpires just prior to falling asleep, or while awakening (Spanos, Cross & DuBreuil, 1993). The brain and body temporarily desynchronize when waking from REM sleep. This causes the body to remain paralyzed during REM sleep, and allowing the mind to be fully cognizant of its surroundings. Technically this experience cannot be classified as either awake or asleep. A small percentage of people who experience sleep paralysis do so in juxtaposition with terrifying hallucinations (Perina, 2003). These hallucinations vary, for example; people often feel tingling sensations, weightlessness, hear buzzing noises, and see flashing lights and figures around one’s bed. This rarely lasts for long, no more than a few minutes at which point the hallucinations and paralysis end. The individual believing something transpired during sleep may see a hypnotherapist to gain understanding of the experience (Clancy, McNally, Schacter, Lenzenweger, & Pitman 2002). During hypnotic regression, memories of abduction may surface. They can be so terrifying that the experiencer may believe they are afflicted with a serious neurological problem. Rather than accepting the prospect of insanity, they believe aliens abducted them, as it seems less outlandish (Perina, 2003).
If physiologists devoted the most research time to behaviors humans engaged in the most, we would probably have a full understanding of the biological purpose of sleep. After all, humans, with the exception of most college students, spend one third of their lives in a somnolent state. Despite its fundamental role in human and animal life, sleep is, even in an age when neuroscience has reduced many behaviors to neurological mechanisms, still quite mysterious. What processes are taking place during sleep that benefit the organism? Why spend so much time in an unresponsive and vulnerable state? That these questions haven't been definitively answered is really not a function of a lack of effort on the part of scientists, but rather of the difficulties inherent in studying sleep. It is easy to observe the harm that is done to a human or animal deprived of sleep. A rat prevented from sleeping will lose the ability to maintain body temperature and die in about three weeks, showing no evidence of physiological damage (1). In humans, sleep deprivation impairs thinking and suppresses the immune system. But why this deterioration take place is less clear, and the object of disagreeing theories. This essay will try to explain the function of sleep based on what is now known, and attempt to shed light on the reasons and mechanisms for its evolution.
Sleep deprivation is the main culprit for making your alarm clock so difficult to hear in the morning. It contributes to you feeling sluggish throughout the day and unable to fall asleep again at night. Here are seven tips that are easy to implement into your day and will soon become second nature you.
My teammate originally heard this story from her classmates during her junior year in high school. My teammate had no problems remembering the story; she was more worried that I would think she thought it was true. There were pauses in her story telling as I wrote down what she said. She related the story with little emotion or suspense. The laughter in the background also affected the impact of the legend because it is difficult to be scared when there is laughter all around. My teammate also did not make a significant effort to enhance the effect of the story through hand motions or vocal tone inflections.
The Metell company made a toy called “Goodbye Fears Monsters”, the toy is designed to listen and respond to young children who have trouble falling asleep at night. The toy will interact with young children by allowing them to share their fears with them, that they might not feel comfortable sharing with anyone else, the GFM then assures them their fears will be eaten. The GFM will then record what the child shares and the recordings will be sent directly to the child’s parents via an app. The Metell company also promises to share the recordings, at no cost with child psychology researchers. This invention was developed in order for children and parents to sleep better at night, a lot of young children have trouble falling asleep at night because
Many individuals believe that you can only experiences dreams during the REM stage of sleep. The REM stage is one of five stages that people pass through when they go to sleep ever night. REM is an acronym that stands for rapid eye movement. The REM stage was discovered by the two scientists, Kleitman and Aserinsky (Suzuki et al., 2004). During their research they observed that when their patients were woken up during the REM phase, they were capable of recalling their dreams most vividly. Since then the REM has always been associated with dreaming. During REM sleep, dreams tend to be longer, more bizarre, and more complex. However, this is not the only stage of sleep in which people dream. In fact there are multiple stages of sleep in which a person can dream (Behn, Ananthasubramaniam, & Booth, 2013).
This is also unethical as it caused stress. A total sleep deprivation study is even more unethical and therefore difficult to gain participants for, but as a case study, Randy Gardner broke the world record. He suffered from paranoia and hallucinations as a result of the total sleep deprivation which again shows the importance of sleep. However it is not feasible to generalise to the whole population from one self-selected participant.
Sleep is essential to practically all living creatures. It is highly important to humans because without sleep they can’t function properly. Sleep can affect humans in all sorts of ways while doing different activities. Such as driving, working, or day to day things. Sleep can affect our everyday lives and there are various factors that can cause sleep disorders, sleep deprivation and health problems. As well as medical problems that can cause sleeping problems. Humans need sleep to survive, it can affect us physically, mentally, and will affect us differently with little to no sleep as well as with different types of sleep.
You are lying in bed taking a much-needed nap. You have had a long day and this little refresher is just what you need. You are slowly becoming awake and aware of what is going around you. You can hear someone in the kitchen cooking and through the open window by your bed you can hear the sounds of the kids of the neighborhood jumping rope and playing hand games. You can even hear Old Mrs. Jones yelling at Little Johnny for running all over her flowers. You have been sleeping for about an hour and you feel that it is about time to get up. So you open your eyes, or at least you think you do. For reason some they are not open. So you think to yourself, "That is odd, I thought I mentally told my eyes to open?" So you try again, and this time you hear your voice in your head say, "Eyes open;" but again nothing happens. Now you think maybe you are really out of it, and that you must be extremely tired and just need to rub your eyes a little to get them moving. So next you try to move your arm, only it is stuck. Then you realize that your entire body is stuck. You think that this situation has to be unreal. You are awake; you have to be. You can obviously think to yourself, and you can hear everything that is going on inside and outside, but why are you not moving? You try to open your mouth and call for help, but you cannot do that either. You are completely paralyzed! Then you start to think this that is some sort of nightmare-and it is, except it is very much real. You are experiencing sleep paralysis.
Sleep is something we all partake in, unless you have Fatal Familial Insomnia. But why do we need sleep? Why do we feel tired? How do we wake up? These are all questions that have not been answered directly and completely, but have theories and ideas for why these actions happen.