The Sleep Experiment
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The hypothesis that local activation of brain regions during wakefulness affects the EEG recorded from these regions during sleep was tested by applying vibratory stimuli to one hand prior to sleep. Eight subjects slept in the laboratory for five consecutive nights. During a 6-h period prior to night 3, either the left or the right hand was vibrated intermittently (20 min on-8 min off), while prior to night 5 the same treatment was applied to the contralateral hand. The sleep EEG was recorded from frontal, central, parietal and occipital derivations and subjected to spectral analysis. The interhemispheric asymmetry index (IAI) was calculated for spectral power in nonREM sleep in the frequency range 0.25-25.0 Hz for 0.5-Hz or 1-Hz bins. In the first hour of sleep following right-hand stimulation, the IAI of the central derivation was increased relative to baseline, which corresponds to a shift of power towards the left hemisphere. This effect was most prominent in the delta range, was limited to the first hour of sleep and was restricted to the central derivation situated over the somatosensory cortex. No significant changes were observed following left-hand stimulation. Although the effect was small, it is consistent with the hypothesis that the activation of specific neuronal populations during wakefulness may have repercussions on their electrical activity pattern during subsequent sleep.
Five inmates are chosen to do a sleep deprivation experiment for a secret scientific institution. If they make it through 30 days without sleeping, with the aid of a specific gas that prevents sleep, their prison stays will be shortened. The experiment was to be used for the military if proven to work. Left with enough food to eat, books to read, and a journal each to process their thoughts, the subjects find that staying away is a surefire way to go stark, raving bonkers.
Joe works at a facility that performs human experimentation. His work just followed him home. The government wanted to unlock hidden abilities in the human mind. They put subjects in extreme sensory deprivation. All the test subjects went violently insane. But the research continued. Today it has been perfected. Almost perfected.
College professor Stephen Barlow needs cash. Badly. He puts his skepticism aside and signs on to a paranormal research organization in the hopes of scoring a fat bonus. Enter Chaythe Asylum: a long-shuttered and controversial institution where patients were allegedly subjected to unethical experiments. Stephen deems the old building, closed in 1989 after a series of grisly murders, as good a place as any to explore the possibility of the supernatural, and arranges to take a tour with his students. But it turns out that the asylum is not as abandoned as it seems. There is something sinister in the building.
In 1954, at the start of the Cold War, the Soviet military offered four political prisoners their freedom if they participated in an experiment requiring them to remain awake for 14 days while under the influence of a powerful stimulant gas. The prisoners ultimately reverted to murder, self-mutilation, and madness.
In 2018, Dr. Roy Wallis, an esteemed psychology professor at UC Berkeley, is attempting to recreate the same experiment during the summer break in a soon-to-be demolished building on campus. He and two student assistants share an eight-hour rotational schedule to observe their young Australian test subjects around the clock.
Everything was fine for the first five days; the subjects hardly complained having been promised (falsely) that they would be freed if they submitted to the test and did not sleep for 30 days. Their conversations and activities were monitored and it was noted that they continued to talk about increasingly traumatic incidents in their past, and the general tone of their conversations took on a darker aspect after the 4 day mark.
The only remaining subject that could speak started screaming to be sealed in now. His brainwaves showed the same flatlines as one who had just died from falling asleep. The commander gave the order to seal the chamber with both subjects inside, as well as 3 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 mute subject and blew his brains out as well.
Two policemen go to see Christopher about the top-secret documents that were leaked to the papers. They put him in the interrogation room and ask him about the sleep experiment from fifteen years ago. Why did it go so wrong The police seem to imply that one of the prisoners was a serial killer or psychopath. According to reports, Christopher is the one who designed the project.
It's a very well done psychological thriller/horror with quite a bit of fun, bloody carnage towards the end. 5 Psychopaths in a room. All are sleep deprived. Hmmm, I wonder what the outcome would be...
In it, two detectives begin an investigation into the ethics involved in the top-secret research facility, Porton Down. One particular experiment stands out to them as the most horrific, The Sleep Experiment, a scientific experiment that took place during the Cold War. The experiment consisted of five prisoners, deemed Enemies of the State, locked in a sealed gas chamber. An airborne stimulant was continually administered to keep the subjects awake for 30 consecutive days. The prisoners were falsely promised they would be freed from prison if they completed the experiment.
Two detectives begin an investigation on the ethics involved in the top-secret research facility, Porton Down. One experiment, in particular, stands out to them as the most horrific, The Sleep Experiment, a scientific experiment that took place during the Cold War.
The experiment consisted of five prisoners, deemed Enemies of the State, being locked in a sealed gas chamber. An airborne stimulant was continually administered to keep the subjects awake for 30 consecutive days. The prisoners were falsely promised that they would be set free from the prison if they completed the experiment.
Two detectives begin an investigation on the ethics involved in the top-secret research facility, Porton Down. One experiment, in particular, stands out to them as the most horrific, The Sleep Experiment, a scientific experiment that took place during the Cold War. The experiment consisted of five prisoners, deemed Enemies of the State, being locked in a sealed gas chamber. An airborne stimulant was continually administered to keep the subjects awake for 30 consecutive days. The prisoners were falsely promised that they would be set free from the prison if they completed the experiment.
What I liked: The characterizations are strong across the board, from Wallis to his two assistants to the Australian backpackers who signed up to take part in the experiment. Bates does a great job balancing fascinating exposition about the still poorly understood phenomenon of sleep with thriller/horror elements and titillating sexual chemistry between some of the players. When things go wrong, the horror element achieves a satisfying if conventional gross out. Overall, the novel promises a sensational and titillating story about a sleep experiment, and you get it.
Dr. Roy Wallis, esteemed psychology professor at UC Berkeley, is behind the sleep experiment that is mostly secret, and done in a basement location somewhere on campus. His two subjects, a male and female each from Australia, are kept in a contained living environment where they exist breathing air that includes a unique stimulant pumped through it. His goal is to keep the subjects sleepless for 21 days, and he posts an advertisement to hire two assistants for a three-week assignment in which he and the two hires work 8-hour shifts for the complete 21 days and share notes on what they observe.
Director John Farrelly (An Taibhse) and executive producer Cormac Fox (The Young Offenders) presents 'THE SLEEP EXPERIMENT'. Two detectives begin an investigation into a disastrous secret military experiment, were five prisoners were kept awake for thirty days in a sealed gas chamber.
His family and friends disagreed though, saying he was a changed man and still suffering the effects of his experiment. Not long after, he got divorced, lost his job, and eventually became a traveling salesman.
The experiment was observed and documented by professionals, including a Stanford sleep researcher. So despite more recent claims to have broken the record, this one stands out because it was carefully monitored.
During the experiment, it was noted that he experienced diminished cognitive functioning and behavioral changes. He was moody, suffered from paranoia and hallucinations, along with memory and concentration problems.
I worked two jobs back when I was 19 and in my early 20s. I worked at a movie theater and as a waitress at a pancake house. I did not have a car, so I always took the bus or I would ride my bike. There was a big event happening at my first job(movie theater) that caused me to have to work overtime. I had time to take the bus home but no time to sleep. I would take a shower and get ready for my next job(the pancake house) then after taking the bus to my theater job. I did this for 3 1/2 days and I would take naps on the bus and naps on my break. I was so tired that I got food orders wrong, gave away the wrong change, I probably smelled bad and started seeing lines across my eyes as I dozed off while trying to get side work done. It was terrible. I struggled, but I did eventually have to quit one job, because it was impossible for me to stay functional.
The article was very interesting. I am a physician and during my internship and residency training it was common to be awake over 48 hours on a routine basis. Sometimes I recall being awake for over 4 days. In retrospect I recall seeing orders on patients that I didnt recall writing, and seeing patients I performed procedures on and had zero memory of the entire event. I also recall falling asleep in traffic on the highway and the feeling of being asleep with my eyes open. 7 years later after I completed my training I found myself to be a completely different person. I was less happy. Many of the things that were important to me no longer were, i.e. birthdays and holidays. I needed only 3-4 hours of sleep per night to be functional. But most importantly I felt like my energy level reset. It never got back to the original super high energy level I had before I began my training. It has been 25 years since I finished my training and it still has not returned. Sleep deprivation is not without consequences. 59ce067264