Your physical and mental health rely heavily on your ability to get enough sleep.
If you don’t get a goods night rest, you are putting yourself at risk for heart disease,
kidney disease, high blood pressure, stroke and in extreme cases- death.
So that’s why it’s really important for adults to get at least 7-9 hours of sleep
each night in order to function at your best.
So, next time you’re are caught sleeping in class, just tell your teacher that you
are taking care of your health.
How’s it going YouTube?
I’m your host Landon Dowlatsingh and welcome back to another most amazing video.
Before we get started, I want to know, what do you guys do to help you fall asleep?
Let me know your answers in the comment section below.
Alright, let’s get right to this list of the top 10 scary sleep experiment stories.
Starting us off in at number 10 with the 201-hour sleep deprivation experiment.
Back in 1959 a radio DJ wanted to perform a publicity stunt for a charity event.
He decided to stay awake for 200 hours and he broadcasted the entire thing on his radio
show.
He was monitored by scientists who monitored his vitals because he needed to take a lot
of stimulants to stay awake.
He sat in a booth in Times Square where people could pledge money but his innocent experiment
quickly turned dangerous.
After being awake for several hours, he wasn’t able to do simple math problems, recite the
alphabet and he began to hallucinate.
He thought the scientists were conspiring to kill him so he literally drove himself
mad.
He stayed awake for 201 hours but he was drugged for majority of the event.
Some people say that this experiment affected him permanently and after soon afterwards,
he lost his job and his wife divorced him.
A controversial reality tv show is in at number 9.
Don’t worry, I’m not talking about Keeping up with the Kardashians.
In 2004, a British Reality tv show called shattered was aired for millions to watch.
Basically 10 contestants signed up to be locked in an abandoned shopping centre for seven
days.
But they had to stay awake and compete in challenges throughout the show.
Sounds like my worst nightmare or it kind of reminds me of the movie dawn of the dead
but without zombies.
Clare Southern eventually won this horrible contest and she managed to stay awake for
178 hours.
She was awarded with 97,000 pounds but she was mentally and physically tortured.
A show like Shattered would not stand a chance being aired today.
A lot of people complained about this show because it is highly unethical and demoralizing.
With that said, let’s watch a clip
Number 8 brings us to Exploding head syndrome.
Yep, this is a real thing but it’s not what you think.
Exploding head syndrome is a type of parasomnia.
People with this condition have a hallucination of a really loud noise while they are falling
asleep or when they are waking up.
Even though exploding head syndrome isn’t dangerous, it can be extremely frustrating
and people who are affected by this might develop a fear of sleep or an anxiety disorder.
Up next in at number 7 is Sleep deprived puppies.
This next sleep experiment will leave you guys with nightmares.
A Russian physician and scientist performed a sleep deprivation experiment on a bunch
of puppies back in 1894 to study the effects of sleep deprivation on the body.
The scientist reported that after a few days, the puppies who were forced to stay awake
died.
She also reported that severe lesions occurred in the brain.
Wow, this scientist is worse than Curella De Vil.
If this wasn’t enough, two other scientists wanted to perform a very similar experiment.
They kept dogs awake by walking them and they quickly realized that all of the dogs who
were sleep deprived died after 9-17 days.
The Russian Sleep Experiment takes us into number 6.
This is a highly debated and controversial subject because some people believe that the
Russian Sleep experiment was just a hoax while others believe that this is a huge government
conspiracy.
But essentially, this was a sleep deprivation experiment that took place during World War
2.
Russian scientists performed a series of unethical, unmoral and horrifying experiments on five
political prisoners that can be compared to a modern-day horror story.
The prisoners were locked in a gas chamber where a form of experimental gas was pushed
through the vents in order to prevent them from sleeping.
It was the goal of this experiment to observe all of their behaviours and conversations
through one-way mirrors to see how sleep deprivation would affect humans.
The intent was the keep them awake for a period of 30 days which is absolutely insane.
Lack of sleep effects your immune system and this takes us to number 5.
I hate that feeling you get when you are about to get sick.
You just know your week is going to be awful.
So it really surprises me that 164 healthy people signed up for a sleep study where they
would be exposed to the common cold.
Let me explain.
Scientists collected nightly sleep data from these 164 people for one week.
They were then quarantined in a hotel and given nose drops that contained the Rhinovirus,
which is responsible for the common cold.
And then they studied how the person would cope with the cold based on their sleeping
patterns.
They discovered that people who slept for less than five hours a night were 4.5 times
more likely to get sick than those who slept for 7 hours or more.
So, the moral of the story here is to make sure you go to bed early tonight and get those
7 hours in.
The world record for sleep deprivation takes us over to number 4.
Let’s travel back in time to December 1963 when two boys came up with an idea for their
science project.
They wanted to beat the world record for staying awake the longest.
At the time this record was held by a DJ who managed to stay awake for 260 hours or just
under 11 days.
I don’t know who their science teacher was, but I’m pretty sure he shouldn’t have
approved this experiment.
I mean it sounds dangerous to me.
But they carried on with their experiment and the one boy managed to stay awake for
264 hours with no sleep.
After the experiment ended, he was taken to a naval hospital where his brain waves were
studied and they found out that even though he was technically awake, parts of his brain
were napping and restoring itself.
The Guinness book of records stopped certifying attempts to stay up the longest because they
believe that it could be dangerous to people’s health.
Which I find pretty ironic because they still let people eat glass and lay on a bed of nails.
Moving up this list in at number 3 with Prison Sleep deprivation.
As a way to attempt to brainwash prisoners, guards would force prisoners to stay awake
for long periods of time.
The North Koreans used this tactic on American Prisoners of War during the Korean War and
the CIA is even guilty of doing this too.
Psychologists have said that false memories can occur with sleep deprivation so that’s
why interrogators will keep their suspects awake so that they can hopefully create a
false memory and confess to a crime.
Or prisons will just keep their prisoners awake as a form of modern day torture.
Sleep Paralysis comes onto this list in at number 2.
Sleep paralysis is when your mind is awake, but your body is still asleep.
So basically, you feel like you are paralyzed while lying in bed and sometimes you will
see or hear things that aren’t there.
Has this ever happened to you guys?
According to one user on Reddit, one night they woke up because they heard footsteps
in their hallway.
She was lying on her back and when she tried to get up to see if someone was coming, she
couldn’t move.
She started to panic but she couldn’t move or speak but the footsteps got louder and
louder.
She said that she couldn’t see anyone, but she knew there was someone invading her house.
She could even feel him standing on the other side of the bed staring at her and she said
that she could hear him breathing and apparently this feeling lasted for hours.
Government mind control tactics tops this list in at number 1.
Project MKUltra is a code name that was given to a number of illegal experiments that were
done on human subjects.
These experiments were done so that scientists can identify and develop drugs and procedures
that could be used in interrogations in order to weaken the person and force confessions
through mind control.
MKUltra used a ton of different methods to alter the brain.
They would often give people LSD and other chemicals, use hypnosis, sensory deprivation,
isolation, verbal and physical abuse and other forms of torture.
The scary thing about this is that these experiments took place in the 1950’s, so it wasn’t
really that long ago.
Well there you guys have it…