The Russian Sleep Experiment (short story)

    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 5 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.
   The test subjects were political prisoners deemed enemies of the state during world war II.
   Everything was fine for the first 5 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.
   After five days they started to complain about the circumstances and events that lead them to where they were and started to demonstrate severe paranoia. They stopped talking to each other and 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 days the first of them started screaming. He ran the length of the chamber repeatedly yelling at the top of his lungs for 3 hours straight, he continued attempting to scream but was only able to produce occasional squeaks. The researchers postulated that he had physically torn his vocal cords. The most surprising thing about this behavior is how the other captives reacted to it… or rather didn’t react to it. They continued whispering to the microphones until the second of the captives started to scream. The 2 non screaming captives took the books apart, smeared page after page with their own feces and pasted them calmly over the glass portholes. The screaming promptly stopped.
   After 3 more days passed. The researchers checked the microphones hourly to make sure they were working, since they thought it impossible that no sound could be coming with 5 people inside. The oxygen consumption in the chamber indicated that all 5 must still be alive. In fact it was the amount of oxygen 5 people would consume at a very heavy level of strenuous exercise. On the morning of the 14th day the researchers did something they said they would not do to get a reaction from the captives, they used the intercom inside the chamber, hoping to provoke any response from the captives they were afraid were 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 or 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 the researchers and the military forces funding the research. Unable to provoke any more response using the intercom it was finally decided to open the chamber at midnight on the fifteenth day.
   The chamber was flushed of the stimulant gas and filled with fresh air and immediately voices from the microphones began to object. 3 different voices began begging, as if pleading for the life of loved ones to turn the gas back on. The chamber was opened and soldiers 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 could rightly call the state that any of them in ‘life.’
   The food rations past day 5 had not been so much as touched. There were chunks of meat from the dead test subject’s thighs and chest stuffed into the drain in the center of the chamber, blocking the drain and allowing 4 inches of water to accumulate on the floor. Precisely how much of the water on 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 finger tips 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 ribcage of all four test subjects had been removed. While the heart, lungs and diaphragm remained in place, the skin and most of the muscles attached to the ribs had been ripped off, exposing the lungs through the ribcage. All the blood vessels and organs remained intact, they had just been taken out and laid on the floor, fanning out around the eviscerated but still living bodies of the subjects. The digestive tract of all four could be seen to be working, digesting food. It quickly became apparent that what they were digesting was their own flesh that they had 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 to the chamber to remove the test subjects. They continued to scream to be left in the chamber and alternately begged and demanded that the gas be turned back on, lest they fall asleep…
To everyone’s surprise the test subjects put up a fierce fight 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 an artery in his leg severed by one of the subject’s teeth. Another 5 of the soldiers lost their lives if you count ones that committed suicide in the weeks following the incident.
   In the struggle one of the four living subjects had his spleen ruptured and he bled out almost immediately. The medical researchers attempted to sedate him but this proved impossible. He was injected with more than ten times the human dose of a morphine derivative and still fought like a cornered animal, breaking the ribs and arm of one doctor. When heart was seen to beat for a full two minutes after he had bled out to the point there was more air in his vascular system than blood. Even after it stopped he continued to scream and flail for another 3 minutes, struggling attack anyone in reach and just repeating the word “MORE” over and over, weaker and weaker, until he finally fell silent.
   The surviving three test subjects were heavily restrained and moved to a medical facility, the two with intact vocal cords continuously begging for the gas demanding to be kept awake…
   The most injured of the three was taken to the only surgical operating room that the facility had. In the process of preparing the subject to have his organs placed back within his body it was found that he was effectively immune to the sedative they had given him to prepare him for the surgery. He fought furiously against his restraints when the anesthetic gas was brought out to put him under. He managed to tear most of the way through a 4 inch wide leather strap on one wrist, even through the weight of a 200 pound soldier holding that wrist as well. It took only a little more anesthetic than normal to put him under, and the instant his eyelids fluttered and closed, his heart stopped. In the autopsy of the test subject that died on the operating table it was found that his blood had triple the normal level of oxygen. His muscles that were still attached to his skeleton were badly torn and he had broken 9 bones in his struggle to not be subdued. Most of them were from the force his own muscles had exerted on them.
   The second survivor had been the first of the group of five to start screaming. His vocal cords destroyed he was unable to beg or object to surgery, and he only reacted by shaking his head violently in disapproval when the anesthetic gas was brought near him. He shook his head yes when someone suggested, reluctantly, they try the surgery without anesthetic, and did not react for the entire 6 hour procedure of replacing his abdominal organs and attempting to cover them with what remained of his skin. The surgeon presiding stated repeatedly that it shouldn’t be medically possible for the patient to still be alive. One terrified nurse assisting the surgery stated that she had seen the patients mouth curl into a smile several times, whenever his eyes met hers.
When the surgery ended the subject looked at the surgeon and began to wheeze loudly, attempting to talk while struggling. Assuming this must be something of drastic importance the surgeon had a pen and pad fetched so the patient could write his message. It was simple “Keep cutting.”
   The other two test subjects were given the same surgery, both without anesthetic as well. Although they had to be injected with a paralytic for the duration of the operation. The surgeon found it impossible to perform the operation while the patients laughed continuously. Once paralyzed the subjects could only follow the attending researchers with their eyes. The paralytic cleared their system in an abnormally short period of time and they were soon trying to escape their bonds. The moment they could speak they were again asking for the stimulant gas. The researchers tried asking why they had injured themselves, why they had ripped out their own guts and why they wanted to be given the gas again.
Only one response was given: “I must remain awake.”
   All three subject’s restraints were reinforced and they were placed 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 were put back on the gas. The researchers strongly objected, but were overruled.
   In preparation for being sealed in the chamber again the subjects were connected to an EEG monitor and had their restraints padded for long term confinement. To everyone’s surprise all three stopped 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 subjects that 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 for something to focus on. The remaining subject was holding his head off his pillow and blinking rapidly. Having been the first to be wired for EEG most of the researchers were monitoring his brain waves in surprise. They were normal most of the time but sometimes flat lined inexplicably. It looked as if he were repeatedly suffering brain death, before returning to normal. As they focused on paper scrolling out of the brainwave monitor only one nurse saw his eyes slip shut at the same moment his head hit the pillow. His brainwaves immediately changed to that of deep sleep, then flatlined for the last time as his heart simultaneously stopped.
   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.
   He pointed his gun at the remaining subject, still restrained to a bed as the remaining members of the medical and research team fled the room. “I won’t be locked in here with these things! Not with you!” he screamed at the man strapped to the table. “WHAT ARE YOU?” he demanded. “I must know!”
   “Have you forgotten so easily?” The subject asked. “We are you.” “We are the madness that lurks within you all, begging to be free at every moment in your deepest animal mind.” “We are what you hide from in your beds every night. We are what you sedate into silence and paralysis when you go to the nocturnal haven where we cannot tread.”
The researcher paused. Then aimed at the subject’s heart and fired.
The EEG flatlined as the subject weakly choked out “so… nearly… free…”




**Note: i did not wrote this, although i wish i did.**

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Expendables

Worst guitar solo OF ALL TIME !

Ba,deci nici fumat nu poti fi atat de varza. Suna ciudat cum am zis asta, mi-am dat seama in timp ce o scriam.Omul asta e atat de prost,incat ma mir cum de nu au luat foc sigurantele.Ala de canta e ok,mie imi place.Dar solo-ul a stricat tot !

BTW,cam dupa min 2:30 e solo.Nu mai stiu exact.Asta in caz ca nu aveti chef sa il ascultati pe Matisyahu.



Cheers,
A

Idei geniale nu mi-au venit inca...dar....

Cum am zis,n-am nici o idee geniala dar impartasesc cu voi acest Spam.Sincer nu credeam ca inca mai exista oameni cretini pe lume care spameaza mail-ul cu cacaturi de genul :
'Daca e adevarat devenim bogati - bafta .... Ne bagam si noi! (sa aiba Vladescu ce impozita !)

Ministerul Educatiei, Cercetarii si Inovarii
Inspector general,

Buna ziua tuturor,
In general nu trimit asemenea mesaje, dar acesta mi l-a trimis o buna
prietena avocata si cred ca este o oportunitate foarte interesanta.
Ea spune ca va functiona. Si pana la urma nici unul nu avem nimic de
pierdut! Imi spune ca: sunt avocata si cunosc legea. Asta este
adevarat. AOL si INTEL isi vor tine promisiunile de frica sa nu fie
dati in judecata si sa trebuiasca sa faca fata unei amenzi
multimilionare in dolari, asemenatoare cu cea a Coca Cola contra
General Electric. Dragi prieteni nu o luati in gluma.
Bill Gates (Propietar de Microsoft), isi imparte averea.
Daca ignorati acest mesaj o sa va para rau.... Windows este inca cel mai
utilizat program, Microsoft si AOL fac un experiment trimitand acest
mesaj (e-mail beta test)... Cand o sa retrimiteti acest mesaj (e-mail)
prietenilor Dvs. Microsoft o sa poata vedea daca sunteti sau nu
utlizatori ai Microsoft Windows. Pentru fiecare persoana care trimite
acest mesaj Microsoft le va plati 245 EURO.
Pentru fiecare persoana careia tu ii trimiti mesajul iar acesta il va
retrimite la randul ei altor persoane Microsoft vâ va plati 243 EURO.
Pentru fiecare a treia persoana care va retrimite mesajul, Microsoft
va va plati 241 EURO
In 2 saptamani Microsoft, va lua legatura cu tine pentru a-ti confirma
adresa de e-mail si iti va trimite un cec. Charles. Bailey General
Manager Field
Opérations
1-800-842-2332 1-800-842-2332 1-800-842-2332 1-800-842-2332 1-800-842-2332 1-800-842-2332 1-800-842-2332 1-800-842-2332 Ext.. 1085 or
904/245-1085 904/245-1085 904/245-1085 904/245-1085 904/245-1085 904/245-1085 904/245-1085 904/245-1085 or RNX 292-1085
Avocata imi spune: Credeam ca acest mesaj este o frauda dar dupa 2
saptamani dupa ce am retrimis mesajul, am primit un mail de la
Microsoft pentru a-mi confirma datele corecte si adresa si am primit
un cec de de 24.800 EURO.
Trebuie sa trimiti acest mesaj inainte ca testul sa se termine! Daca
cineva are
posibilitatea de a face acest lucru realitate acesta este Bill Gates..
Pentru el acest lucru supune o cheltuiala de publicitate. Va rog
trimiteti mesajul la cat de multa lume puteti!
Trebuie sa primiti cel putin 10.000 EURO.
Nu v-am fi ajutat sa aflati si sa aveti posibiliatatea de a trimite
acest mesaj daca noi la randul nostru nu am avea ceva de castigat pe
urma lui. Cum va spuneam cunosc legea si acesta mail este real.
Intel si AOL negociaza o fuziune ceea ce i-ar face compania cea mai mare din
lume, iar pentru a fi siguri ca Windows este cel mai folosit program,
Intel si AOL fac un experiment prin acest test.'


Daca nu aveti rabdare sa citit tot ideea e ceva de genu' : 'Yahoo! inchide conturile de mail daca nu trimiteti acest mail la toata lista Bla bla Blabering'.

So another bullshit if I may say.

Vivaz.

A auzit cineva de Vivaz pana acum ? Nici eu.Asta pana acum 5 minute.
Am gasit pe net un articol interesant.
Cica Vivaz e noul telefon de la Sony Ericson.Alt telefon nou pe piata.Nimic interesant pana aici.Interesant e ca poti castiga unul din telefoanele astea cu Symbian ,camera de 8MP si ceva de 75 MB,nu mai stiu exact ce.Ma cam pierd in detalii dastea gen Symbian si 3G – HSDPA.Anyway.Vreti detalii cautati-le pe net.
Cum ziceam.Poti castiga un telefon ca asta,sau o excursie in Dubai si Istanbul.
Tot ce tre sa faci e sa intri aici si sa faci ce zice acolo.

Multe succesuri !

Beringi

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:))

Eu vreau abonamentul Iepure.Zic. :))

Tecktonik

I decided today to write in english.I wish i could write in french,mais je ne peu ecriré en français.C'est la vie.
Ok.So...i wanted to tell you about a new dance that started in France.No...it's not parkour,it's tecktonik.A new,very jumpy (does this word even exists :-?? ) dance style.
Maestro (read it with a french accent) it's going to show you a few moves.

Feel free to dance along.



Hope you enjoyed his first lesson and learned new moves.


Au revoir


PS: Here's a video of parkour if you don't know the dance :)


Note: I think these guys are somehow related with Spiderman.

funny kid :D

Search

Unul dintre cele mai tari search-uri pe care le-am vazut vreodata.

Cineva a dat search pe google : "caut diverse lucruri" .
Pai daca cauti de ce dai search asa...scrie si tu un nume,scrie "mazlina" ca tre sa existe ceva.
:)))


Zic.

Feshãn

Moda.Moda e o ciuma.E o ciuma bine organizata.Se lipesc de tine tot felul de idei,in special ideile unor oameni mai putin intregi la minte.De ce nu sunt intregi la minte ? Pai uitati-va ce au ajuns bikinii din 1800 si pana azi.Aproape ca nu se mai vad...dar defapt ma insel.Chiar atunci cand credeam ca se folosesc 2 triunghiuri si 6 sfori...iata ca mai exista o solutie.Triunghiurile de material sa nu mai fie de 10 cm sa fie cat un triunghi de branza topita.Da...a-ti auzit bine,cat un triunghi dala de va ia mama cateodata si il intindeti frumos pe paine sau il mancati direct din cutie.
Ce comparatie draguta am gasit....mi-a venit in minte asa deodata.
Hai ca nu va mai plictisesc,va las sa va uitati la poze :)




ps: observati privirile tampe ale oamenilor de pe plaja....oare cum arata la spate ?
pss: nu am poze facute din spate :(

de plictiseala

Cu totii ne plictisim la un moment dat de un lucru sau altul,de o persoana,de viata,de filme....de orice te poti plictisi.Si atunci incerci sa cauti diverse lucruri pe net pe care nu le-ai cautat niciodata dar mereu ai vrut.Ma urmariti ? Bun.
Par iegzemplu eu cand ma plictisesc citesc o carte,dorm sau mai caut diverse lucruri pe net.
Eh...multi facem asta.Dar se pare ca unii au mai multa imaginatie decat noi.
Iata ce search-uri sunt pe gugãl : "tote filme de porno xxxxxx" si "un chat unde vreau sa postez ceva" .Iar cei care au cautat aceste lucruri,au intrat pe blogul meu.
Pai ma baiteti/fetelor daca vreti sa stiti unde gasiti filme porno sau chat-uri lasati si voi o cerere in Chatroll-ul din dreapta si va fac posturi separate pentru ambele lucruri.Cereti si vi se va da.

Hai ca va mai astept cu search-uri dastea. :)

Bafta la gasit ce cautati.


NOT!

Update :
"atentie inchideti usa" - pentru ce ai cautat tu asa ceva ??
"de unde pot sa-mi cumpar blugi baggy cu turul lasat" - cred ca de la magazin :))

PS: baggy sau cu turul lasat e acelasi lucru :)

Sa va vad!!!

Am gasit o chestie interesanta pe un forum....Scrie-ti numele in japochineza de mai jos sa radem putin.

CODE
A - ka
B - tu
C - mi
D - te
E - ku
F - lu
G -ji
H - ri
I - ki
J - zu
K - me
L - ta
M – rin
N - to
O - mo
P - no
Q - ke
R - shi
S - ari
T - chi
U - do
V - ru
W - mei
X - na
Y - u
Z - zi


Incep eu:

GreenHell - JishikukutoRikutata

tie ce ti-a iesit ? (in afara de ochi) :)))

it's possible....

Foarte tare

Da da da...avem si part 2 (gracias misky :* )

Ziua nationala a dementilor

Bai..hai sa le alegem si lor o zi in plm ca sunt stresati.Voi nu vedeti ce stresata e fatuca asta ?
Are nevoie de o zi nationala si o vom numi "Ziua oamenilor fara creier" sau cum vreti voi....Va rog frumos

Din trecut

Bucurestiul Vechi

De sarbatori

Toti au ceva de spus despre Revelionul asta,despre Craciun.Eu nu vreau sa va zic,na.
Dar pot sa va zic ca week-end-ul ce a trecut am dormit aproape 30 de ore...eram obosita.Asa ca va puteti imagina cam cate am facut eu de sarbatori de am putut sa dorm atat. (nu am luat somnifere...desi cateodata ar fi bune :D )

Ieri am ajuns la 12 fara 10 la birou.M-am trezit la 10:30 ca nu a sunat ceasu'.Nu s-a suparat nimeni pe mine..doar e adoua zi de munca din an,ma obisnuiesc iar cu orarul.Telefonul de la firma abia suna,pe o parte e bine,mai multa liniste.Si cel putin acum nu imi mai canta.Anu' trecut (cum suna...defapt pot la fel de bine sa zic "acum 2 saptamani") imi canta melodia care se aude cand pui pe Hold.Era sa fac "stop in piept" de vreo 3 ori...nimic grav,mare chestie sa mori.Imaginati-va cum stati voi calmi,nu se aude nici musca...si deodata "ti li li li li li li li" !!! Acum si-a revenit.A primit ca cadou (da stiu...cacofonie) multe perechi de palme sa-si revina.N-a mai cantat...probabil intrase in spiritul sarbatorilor :D.

Ma joc Ikariam.E ceva gen Travian doar ca arata mai bine.Am 3 colonii pe 3 insule,trebuie sa mai fac pe o insula.Daca va jucati stiti cum sta treaba.Dureaza cam mult sa fac upgrade la toate cladirile...dar arata bine,isi schimba putin infatisarea cand ajung la nivele mai mari.Jucati si o sa vedeti (PS daca vreti sa jucati ,jucati in lumea Alpha,ca daca aveti nevoie de ajutor puteti sa ma contactati :) ).

Hai ca ma bag sa ma joc pe un site...ca m-am plictisit...si n-am chef nici sa aberez :)

Am zis.

PS: am avut o vacanta verde :D

Un bou

Bai eu am ramas socata.
Prima oara aveam impresia ca el vrea sa demonstreze ca poate sa "inghita" un borcan cu anusul....si poi se aude POCC!!!

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