The Russian Sleep experiment is a urban legend. It is about Russians doing a experiment of sleep deprivation on war prisoners.
There is evidence that this happened. There is certain details that are superstition. We will be going over the facts and fakes of The Russian Sleep experiment.
It states that this happened during the 1940s in soviet Russia. Soviet researchers had 5 prisoners in a air tight cell. They used simulate gasses to sleep deprive the prisoners for 30 days. The first few days were uneventful. By the 5th day the prisoners were stressed out, and stopped talking to their fellow inmates.
On the 9th day the screaming and panicking has begun. The prisoners would run around there cells screaming at the top of there lungs.
One prisoner
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Here is a excerpt from where I read this. The researchers addressed the subjects via the intercom. “We are opening the chamber to test the microphones," they said. "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." Then A voice from inside answered, “We no longer want to be freed." The 2 following days were quiet and uneventful. On the 15th day the researchers decided to terminate the project. They told the prisoners they had turn off the gas. The prisoners begged for them to turn it back on.
The researchers sent soldiers to retrieve the prisoners. They were shocked to see that one prisoner had ripped his own flesh off and killed him self soaked in a pool of blood.
The other 4 prisoners were terrified of falling asleep. One prisoner fought back so vigorously that he had ruptured hiss spleen and lost all his blood after flaying for 3 minutes. The renaming prisoners were restrained and transported to hospitals. One prisoner fought the restraints so furiously that he broke his own bones and tore his muscles.
The other prisoners were fine. The researchers were terrified and killed one of the 2 prisoners and aimed at the last prisoner. The prisoner
Others weep for the ones lost. They then got prison clothes that were ridiculously fitted. They made exchanges and went to a new barracks in the “gypsies’ camp.” They waited in the mud for a long time. They were permitted to another barracks, with a gypsy in charge of them.
After only six days the Stanford Prison Experiment was stopped, after they originally planned it to last for two weeks. This was not because Zimbardo thought it should be, of the guards out of line behavior, or because outsiders thought so. The experiment finally stopped because of a graduate student was helping Zimbardo told him that it was out of control. I am very surprised from the results of the experiment. The power of situations was shown to be much more powerful than I ever would have thought. Because of the way the prisoners were treated, I do not think there will ever be another experiment like this ever again, even though a lot of valuable information was attained for conducting it.
Apparently #8612 was going to get a gang of friends, come back, and free all of the prisoners. Zimbardo describes his own reactions at the time as one of maintaining security in his prison, instead of observing what would have happened, like a psychologist would do. Zimbardo cleared the prison and waited for the “gang” to show up, but they never did. The rumor proved false and the research team rebuilt the prison. A full day without any data collected.
The men who played the role of prisoner, like the guards, were selected at random. The harassment they endured, while all voluntary, was by any means less than humane. They were treated with very little respect, and denied basic rights, such as use of the restroom, and were forced to sleep on cold concrete floors for many nights as a form of punishment. When they arrived to the prison, they were stripped down, and given a change of clothes, but the “change of clothes”, was anything but what they expected to receive. They were actually dresses. The dresses were meant to emasculate the men even more than what they had been already. Rendered powerless, with lack of control of their environment, what other choice did they have than to accept what
The Stanford Prison Experiment was a study put together by Phillip Zambardo to test the psychological effects of a prisoner and guard scenario in a mock prison setting. The experiment lasted approximately fourteen days and was comprised of twenty-four male students, all of whom were picked at random to take part in the experiment. Each individual was also randomly given the role of either guard or prisoner. The mock prisoners were subjugated to psychological abuse, harsh authoritarian rule by the guards, and intense living conditions to ensure maximum results were met. Due to the intense amount of stress brought on from the ordeal, a few prisoners were unable to continue and the experiment concluded prematurely. Everything about this observation
We live our entire life in two states, sleep and awake1. These two states are characterized by two distinct behaviors. For instance, the brain demonstrates a well-defined activity during non-REM sleep (nREM) that is different when we are awake. In the study of sleep by Huber et. al., the authors stated that sleep is in fact a global state2. It is unclear whether this statement means that sleep is a state of global behavioural inactivity or the state of the global nervous system. The notion that sleep is a global state of the nervous system served as basis for sleep researchers to search for a sleep switch. The discovery of the sleep switch, in return, provided evidence and enhanced the notion that sleep is a global state of the nervous system. The switch hypothesis developed from the fact that sleep can be initiated without fatigue and it is reversible1. It was hypothesized that there is something in the brain that has the ability to control the whole brain and initiate sleep. Studies have found a good candidate that demonstrated this ability3. They found a group of neurons in the Ventrolateral Preoptic (VLPO) nucleus. It was a good candidate because it was active during sleep, has neuronal output that can influence the wakefulness pathway, and lesion in the area followed reduce sleep3. The idea that there is something that can control the whole brain and result sleep state supports the idea that sleep is a global state of the nervous system.
On August 14, 1971, the twelve men that were given the role as “prisoner” were arrested without warning and taken to the police station on charges of burglary and armed robbery in front of their family and friends. There they were processed, fingerprinted and photographed, by the police. Then were blindfolded as they were transferred to the mock prison that was built in one of the basement of a campus building. They were deloused, had their heads shaven, and given their uniform and ID number and then placed in a cell as they would in a real prison setting. The other twelve men were the “guards”, those men were given a guard’s uniform, sunglasses, and a baton. Their orders only being to do what they thought was necessary to keep order in the prison but not to use any kind of violence. Even though the first day was uneventful you could see within hours both groups began to settle into their roles very quickly. It wasn’t until the second day there was a situation when the prisoner started a rebellion, which made the guards further adopt their role and began using more mental
In 1942, Hoss turned two peasant cottages into gas chambers, which was in the crematorium 1,that were equipped with hollowed-out, wire-mesh columns and can hold up to 2,000 victims at a time (Shelton, 2005, p. 99). He would then use the Zyklon pellets in the crowded room and after twenty minutes the victims would be dead. Concentrations of 0.4mg/liter are uncondi...
many as 2,000 prisoners were sent into the gas chambers at one time. The guards shaved
It should be noted that the findings of this report are limited by the current knowledge available. As such public awareness of sleep deprivation and the science of sleep must be raised so that sleeping disorders such as sleep deprivation may be completely understood and treated.
After watching the video I was shocked yet intrigued. I was shocked because of how out of control the situation at hand got but I was intrigued how far down the rabbit hole the students tumbled when presented an opportunity to role play as either a prisoner or a guard. The prisoners although reluctant at first became subservient to the guards. The guards, especially the "John Wayne" guard took to this new sense of authority quickly. The mental distress is also unbelievable. Public humiliation, psychological warfare and sanitary conditions were the main reasons the prisoners were so broken down. It was overwhelming. Philip Zimbardo played the role as the investigator and as the warden. Zimbardo himself became lost in the experiment. With that being said, the end result data of the experiment cannot be trusted because Zimbardo made sure there were favorable conditions to get results instead of let...
The inmates were beaten, tortured, and experimented on. Their abuse ranged from gassing to drowning. Women’s genitals were violated, sex crimes were committed, and children were
In the story, the prisoners are often dehumanized by how they are treated while they wait for their hanging. The beginning of the story starts with the narrator describing what the prisoner cells looked like with it in poor condition:
paragraph only more intensified and there are several factors in a prison setting that would result in the ...
difficult relationships present that day in the prison, and emphasizing with detail on a few inmates