Russian Sleep Experiment

If taking sleep away can disrupt attention and memory, our emotions, our perception, and even eventually a person's ability to determine what's real, what happens when someone does that to another human being on purpose? What happens when sleep is used as torture? There's a super scary photo on the internet and I'm going to use it as part of the thumbnail for this episode.

And it's said to come from the Russian sleep experiment.

It's this skeleton looking person, eyes bulging out, very, very unsettling.

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The Russian Sleep Experiment is the terrifying tale in which five people are kept awake for 15 days and the horrifying effect it had on their minds and bodies.

Now, this is just a story and there is no evidence to prove this actually happened.