They were given more than enough food and water but quickly developed lesions on their brains and died within just a few days. Multiple dogs were tested over a period of weeks and were kept awake through forced handling and walking. While it may not have been considered ethical to perform this experiment on people, she decided that puppies would be the next best thing to test. While these experiments were not performed on people, a Russian scientist named Maria de Manaceine did perform some forced wakefulness experiments on live subjects during the 1890s. By the time the entire ordeal is over, the test subjects have gone entirely and disturbingly insane, and the story seems unclear how much of it was lack of sleep and how much of it was gas.
The legend tells of several political prisoners who are offered their freedom in exchange for taking part in a sleep study where they are kept awake with gas for weeks in order to see how lack of sleep affects their behavior and functioning. We’ve all heard of the crazy urban legend of the so-called “Russian Sleep Experiment,” an alleged experiment that later turned out to be a story made up for a creepypasta. 10 The Real Russian Sleep Experiment Kept Puppies Awake Until They Died Sometimes, the truth is even more disturbing than the legend. However, while most urban legends are indeed nonsense, some of the crazier ones have way more underlying truth than you would have ever imagined. While sites like Listverse do their best to debunk these legends, some of us become so tired of all the nonsense that we simply dismiss anything absurd-sounding as soon as we hear it. In general, they exist to shock you or make you believe something ridiculous in order to get a few more clicks. The Internet is stuffed to the gills with urban legends of every kind.
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