The Russian Sleep Experiment (2009 creepypasta)

The Russian Sleep Experiment is a short story and creepypasta.The Russian Sleep Experiment - 8 July 2012 - Creepypasta.com - Retrieved 19 February 2024
== History ==
=== Origins ===
While Snopes traces the story's original origin to the Creepypasta Wiki,Was the Russian Sleep Experiment Real? - David Mikkelson - 27 August 2013 - Snopes - Retrieved 19 February 2024 the story's earliest revision on the site noted that the story was, "A popular pasta on /x/ about the perils of sleep deprivation,"The Russian Sleep Experiment - Orange.Soda - 16 August 2010 - Creepypasta Wiki - Retrieved 19 February 2024 suggesting the story had already been circulating prior. Indeed, a 2011 post on r/nosleep shared a screenshot of the story in which it was claimed to have already been reposted prior to 28 May 2009.Russian sleep Experiment. (aka: the orange soda experiment) - Church004 - 14 January 2011 - r/nosleep - Reddit - Retrieved 19 February 2024 The same image had earlier been posted on Chan4Chan on 9 March 2010,The Russian Sleep Experiment Orange Soda 05/28/09(Thu) 15:46 No.2052748 - zodd - 9 March 2010 - Chan4Chan - Retrieved 19 February 2024 as well as the blog Rip's Domain on 8 August 2009.Russian Sleep Experiment: the best short story I’ve read. - rip747 - 8 August 2009 - Rip's Domain - WordPress - Retrieved 19 February 2024 - Archived 14 August 2024 In addition, a text version was shared on the Bodybuilding.com Forums on 20 August 2009.The Russian Sleep Experiment - theFALCONpunch - 20 August 2009 - Bodybuilding.com Forums - Retrieved 19 February 2024
== Notes ==
===Reception===
*Jacob Sherwood of "Bad Creepypasta" cited the story as the fifth best of the five best creepypastas he had ever read in 2013.Top 5 Best & Worst Creepypastas - MichaelLeroi - 20 June 2013 - YouTube - Retrieved 20 February 2024
=== Trivia ===
* Slimebeast wrote a 2018 short story, "5 Things You Didn't Know About WWII's Creepiest Sleep Experiment",5 THINGS YOU DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT WWII'S CREEPIEST SLEEP EXPERIMENT - Slimebeast - 26 December 2018 - Slimebeast.com - Retrieved 20 February 2024 which was inspired by "The Russian Sleep Experiment" but not based on it.5 Things You Didn T Know About Wwii S Creepiest Sleep Experi - Beastbrain - 28 September 2022 - Slimebeast.Wikidot.com - Retrieved 20 February 2024
* Mark Fischbach read segments of the story on his podcast Distractible, prompting his co-host Bob Muyskens to compare the plight of the political prisoners to the Reavers from the 2002 science fiction television series "Firefly".Markiplier Explains The Russian Sleep Experiment - Distractible Podcast - 12 Sept 2022 - YouTube - Retrieved 19 February 2024
== Links ==
* Russian Sleep Experiment on Wikipedia
* The Russian Sleep Experiment on the Creepypasta Wiki
* Russian Sleep Experiment on Know Your Meme
== References ==
Category:Fiction
Category:Real short stories
Category:Real short stories released in 2009
Category:Creepypasta related