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Russian researchers in the late 1940s kkept five people awake for 15 days using 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 close circuit cameras so they had only microphones and five inch-thick glass porthole size windows into the chamber to monitor them. The chamber was stocked with books, cost sleep no betting, running water and toilet, and enough dried food to last for all five 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 up they submitted to the test and did not sleep for 30 days. Their conversations and activities were monitored and it was noted that they continue 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.

After five days they started to complain about the circumstances and events that led them to where they started to demonstrate severe paranoia. They stopped talking to each other and began alternately whispering to the microphones and the one way mirrored portholes. Oddly they also 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 days the person started screaming. He ran the length of the chamber repeatedly yelling at the top of his lungs for three hours straight, he continued attempting to scream but was only able to produce occasional squeaks. The researchers postulated that he physically torn his vocal cords. The most surprising thing about this behavior is how the other captives reacted to this... 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 pace of them calmly are the glass portholes. The screaming promptly stopped.

So did the whispering to the microphones.

After three more days past. The researchers checked the microphones hourly to make sure they were working, since they found impossible that no sound to becoming 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 people consume it in very heavy level of strenuous exercise. On the morning of the 14th day the researchers did something they said they would never do to get a reaction from the captives, they use an intercom inside the chamber, hoping to provoke any response from the Is they were afraid either dead or vegetables.

They announced: "We are opening the chamber to test the microphones step away from the doors and lie flat on the floor 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 freed."

Debate broke out among researchers in the military forces funding the research. Unable to provoke anymore response using the intercom it was finally decided to open the chamber at midnight on the 15th day.

The chambers flushed of the stimulant gas and filled with fresh air and immediately voices from the microphones beginning to object. Three different voices begin baking, as if pleading further life of love ones to turn the gas back on. The chamber was opened and soldiers were 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 rightly call the state of an event in 'life.'

The food rations past day five had not been so much as touched. There were chunks of meat from dead test subjects thighs and chest stuck in the drain of center the chamber, blocking the drain allowing four inches of water to accumulate on the floor. Precisely how much of the water in 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 initially thought. Closer examination of the position and angles of the wounds indicated that most if not all of them were self-inflicted.

The abdominal organs below the rib cage of all four test subjects had been removed. While the heart, lungs and diaphragm remained in place, the skin and most of muscles attached to the ribs have been ripped off, exposing the lungs through the rib cage. All the blood vessels and organs remained intact, they had just been taken out and laid on the floor, panning around the eviscerated the still living bodies of the subjects. The digestive tract of all four could be seen to be working, digesting food. They quickly became apparent that what they were digesting was their own flesh they'd ripped off and eaten over the course of days.

Most of the soldiers were Russian special operatives at the facility, but still many refused to return the chamber term of the test subjects. They continued to scream to be left in the chamber and alternately beg and demanded that the gas be turned back on, lest they fall asleep...

To everyone's surprise the test subjects but about beer spine 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 had an artery in his leg severed by one of the subjects teeth. Another five of the soldiers lost their lives that you count the ones that committed suicide in the weeks following the incident.

In the struggle one of the four living subjects had its spleen ruptured and bled out almost immediately. The medical research is attended to sedate him but this provide impossible. He was injected with more than 10 times the human dose of morphine derivative and still fought like a cornered animal, raising the risen arm of one doctor. When his heart was seen to be for a full 2 min. after he had bled out to the point that there was more air in his vascular system than blood. Even after the stop he continued to scream and flail for another 3 min., struggling to attack anyone in reach and just kept repeating the word "MORE” over and over, weaker and weaker, until he finally fell silent.

The surviving three test subjects are heavily restrained and moved to a medical facility the two with intact vocal cords continuously begging for the gas demand to be kept awake…

The most injured and three was taking to the only surgical operating room in the facility. In the process for pairing the subject to have his organs place back within his body it was found that he was effectively immune to the sedated had given them to prepare for surgery. He fought fiercely against his restraints with the anesthetic gas was brought out to put them under. He managed care most of the way through four-inch wide leather strap on one wrist, even though the weight of the 200 pound soldier holding that wrist as well. It took only a little more anesthetic than normal to put them under, and that instant his eyelids fluttered in close, his heart stopped. In the autopsy of the test subject that died on the operating table was found that his blood had three times the normal amount of oxygen. His muscles were still attached to the skeleton were badly torn and he broken nine bones in the struggled not to be subdued. Most of them were from the force of his own muscles that had exerted on them.

The second survivor had been the first of the group to start screaming. His vocal cords destroyed he was unable to bagger objective surgery, and you only reacted by shaking violently in disapproval when anesthetic gas was brought. He shook his head yes when someone suggested, reluctantly, they try the surgery without anesthetic, and did not react for the entire six-hour procedure of replacing the abdominal organs and attempting to cover them with what remained of his skin the circle presided stated repeatedly that it should be medically possible for the patient to still be alive. One terrified nurse assisting surgery stated that she had seen the patient's mouth curl into a smile several times, when his eyes met hers.

When the surgery ended the subject look at the surgeon began to wheeze loudly, attempting to talk while struggling. Assuming this must be something of a drastic importance the surgeon had a pen and pad attached to the patient could write his message. It was simple "Keep cutting."

The other juice test subjects were given the same surgery, both without anesthetic as well. Although they had been injected with that paralytic for the duration of the operation. The surgeon found it impossible to perform the operation while the patient's last continuously. Once paralyzed the subjects could only follow the attending researchers with their eyes. The paralytic cleared their system and in an abnormally short period of time and they were soon trying to escape their bonds. The moment they can speak were asking for the stimulant gas. The researchers tried asking why they injure themselves, widely ripped up their own guts and why they wanted to be given the gas again.

Only one response is given: "I must remain awake."

All three subject’s restraints were reinforced in their place back into the chamber awaiting determination 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. The commanding officer, an ex-KGB instead saw potential, and wanted to see what would happen if they're put back on the gas. The researcher strongly objected, but they were overruled.

In preparation for being sealed in the chamber again the subject are connected to an EEG monitor and had the restraints padded for long-term confinement. To everyone's surprise all three stocks 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 subject could speak was humming loudly and continuously, the mute subject was straining his legs against the leather bonds with all his might, first left, then right, then left again or something focus on. The remaining subject was holding his head off his pillow and blinking rapidly. Having been the first to be wired to the EEG most of the researchers for monitoring his brain waves in surprise. They were normal most of the time but sometimes flat line inexplicably. It looked as if he were repeatedly suffering brain death, before returning to normal. And it focused on paper scrolling out of the brainwave monitor only one nurse saw his eyes slip shut in the same moment his head hit the pillow. His brain waves immediately changed that a deep sleep, then flat line for the last time his heart simultaneously stopped.

The only remaining subject they could speak started screaming to be sealed and now. His brainwave showed the same flatlined as one who had just died from falling asleep. The commander gave the order to seal the chamber would go subject 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 need subject and blew his brains out as well.

He pointed his gun of the remaining subject, still restrained to a bed as the remaining members of the medical research team fled the room. "I won't be locked in here with these things! Not with you!" he screamed at the man strap to the table. "WHAT ARE YOU?” he demanded. "I must know!"

The subject smiled.

"Have you forgotten so easily?" The subject asked. "We are you" "we are the madness that lurks within you all, begging to be freed every moment in your deepest animal mind." "We are what you hide from in your bed every night. We're what you sedate in the sounds and process when you go to the normal haven where we cannot tread."

The researcher paused. Then aimed at the subject’s heart and fired.

The EEG flatlined in the subject weakly choked out "so… nearly… free…"