Analysis Of The Russian Sleep Experiment

If you are a horror story fanatic, then you’ve most likely heard of The Russian Sleep Experiment. On August 10, 2010, this story appeared on a website called Creepypasta.com. The story was written about an event in the 1940’s where five men were held in a chamber with a special gas meant to keep them awake for 30 days straight. The event was said to take place in Russia during WWII. The author of this story never revealed their real name, or anything about themselves in the actual story, so no one really knows who the author is. Although, a woman named Holly Ice wrote a novella written from the point of view of the prisoners, based off of the original creepypasta story. A lot of people think this event really happened, but it never did. There …show more content…
The test subjects were five men who were “prisoners of war, and deemed enemies of the state” (Russian Sleep Experiment line 7). The men were told if they could make it a full 30 days without sleeping at all, they would be free to go. They were put into a chamber that had 3 porthole windows with 5 inch thick glass. There was also a 2-way mirror, which the researchers would watch the subjects from. All of the conversations inside the chamber were recorded by microphones placed all around the room, the subjects were under non-stop surveillance. In the chamber, the prisoners were given a load of books, enough dried food for about a month and a half, and a couple of cots without bedding or pillows. The prisoners had flowing oxygen in the chamber, but there was also a unknown gas being pumped in that was supposed to keep them …show more content…
Think about those movies again, you’ve probably heard those names a lot even if you don’t know what happens in them right? It’s the cliffhangers, the violence, and the unexplained parts of it that keeps people thinking about it even after they’ve watched the movie. It’s the same way with The Russian Sleep Experiment. It keeps people on the edge of their seats, and it makes them want to hear more. I bet you’ve also heard people say they believe that the Blair Witch Project, or even the story about Annabelle, the haunted doll. It’s because the writers add in little hints to make the story seem just real enough that it’ll make some people believe that it actually happened, even though those stories are fake. The whispering, the talking about dark times, and even the fact that the prisoners got pretty much addicted to the gas, that all seems real enough, so just those little details could get someone to believe the whole story, even if all of the other details are highly unlikely and not