What's up you guys? I'm Haley and I'm Andrea and this is Inhuman a true crime

podcast. Oh, Welcome back everybody. If you are listening to this when it first comes out and you celebrate Easter. We hope you had a good

Easter or a good weekend or a good week or day or whenever you're listening to this,

happy day. Happy day. But today we're going to be talking about something that's a little bit

different but I came across it and I just kind of wanted to dive more into it so I decided to make an episode on it because then I could justify spending time researching it.

Yeah. So it's a little bit different but it also reminded me of something else that I learned about in

psychology class that I might end up covering in a future episode so we'll see if you guys like this type of thing then

maybe we'll do more things like this but is it like true crime adjacent like not exactly true crime but true

crime with Jason? Yeah kind of true. True crime adjacent this one actually like

turns into like a proper true crime story.

But yeah.

Ooh, I'm excited.

Yeah, so today we're talking about the Russian sleep experiment.

Ooh, Dun, done, done.

So in the late 1940s, psychological researchers in Russia

wanted to test how long a human being could go without sleep.

So to kind of set the stage a little bit, World War II had just ended.

So the Russian government was, you know, just trying to prepare for any potential future wars

by building up their military and making sure that they had the best of the best and

something they wanted to test was that if they could keep soldiers awake for longer

so that they would need like less rest and could you know do more essentially.

Sounds terrible but okay yeah Yeah, sounds awful. And if you didn't know, sleep deprivation is actually

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