During the stage of World War Two, political prisoners deemed enemies were test subjects for this experiment. Russian researchers in the late 1940s kept five people awake for fifteen days using an experimental gas based stimulant. They were kept in a sealed environment 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 had only microphones and five-inch thick glass porthole sized windows into the chamber to monitor them. The chamber was stocked with books, cots to sleep on but no bedding, running water and toilet, and enough dried food to last all five for over a month.
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This is definitely not proven to be true, but creepy goes by word of mouth, anyway.
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Can you stay awake for over a month? Not a wink of sleep, minimal food, and in a state of shock. Out of five subjects in an experiment, one person did stay awake for the whole month. And he was claimed to be mad after.
In the late 1940s, some curious and ruthless Russian researchers kept five people awake for fifteen days using an experimental gas based stimulant. They kept the five subjects in a sealed environment, monitoring their every move. Since the gas was toxic, it could even kill them, so they carefully tracked their oxygen intake. This was before closed circuit cameras so they had only microphones and five-inch thick glass porthole sized windows into the chamber to monitor them. The chamber was stocked with books, cots to sleep on but no bedding, running water and toilet, and enough dried food to last all five for over a month.
What makes it an even pitiable condition, is that these five test subjects were political prisoners deemed as enemies.
For the first five days, everything was fine. The test subjects did not complain as they were falsely promised that they would be freed if they stayed awake for over a month without complaining. It was noted that they talked about traumatic incidents in their past and most of their conversations took a darker tone to it after the first four days.
After the five days, they started to complain about the circumstances and events that lead them to where they were which started to signify severe paranoia. They stopped talking to each other, began alternately whispering to the microphones and one way mirrored portholes. Oddly, they all seemed to think 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 whole days, one of the subjects started screaming. For three hours, he ran back and forth across the chamber they were kept in and screamed at the top of his lungs. He continued screaming, but he was only able to produce occasional squeaks. The researchers concluded that he had physically torn his vocal cords. Surprisingly, the other subjects present in the chamber didn't seem to react to his behavior at all. They just sat stock straight, not talking, not reacting to the madness- just sitting and staring into space. One of the subjects continued to whisper at the microphone until another one of the subjects started screaming and it all just repeated again.
