The Sleep Experiment Novels & Stories

Grandfather had admitted that he wasn't sure how well our memories would translate, if they'd just be simple video and auditory data, or something more. For our last night together, we had hardly slept at all. We took full advantage of the few precious hours we had left. Now, I felt like I wanted to fall asleep on my feet, but staying awake wouldn't be a problem for much longer. We'd found out that the process was going to be just a little different than we'd thought. Sleeping was part of the equation. That part would help to reduce the chance of us failing to enter the server and simply losing our minds instead.

She had noticed it twice already when she had tried to help him push his wheelchair. Unbeknownst to her, Nolan's mind was in a jumbled mess. He glanced at the big wall clock, confirming that he wasn't seeing things. He suddenly realized that he had slept four hours longer than usual. It was already 9 am in the morning, and the sun was already up. Normally, he woke up precisely at 5 am, no matter what time he went to bed. Even if he slept at 4 am, he would still wake up at that exact time. This disrupted sleep pattern wasn't good for his health, even if his body could handle it. But surprisingly, he had overslept.

I whispered to myself as I paused what I was watching and then I closed the laptop, I didn't even realize that it was almost morning. "It's 1:43 am in the morning. My help is as long as the life of the immortals." I said I laughed at myself, I didn't really finish the video because I was too tired. I haven't gotten through it yet because of the many failed experiments they've done, it hasn't reached my sleepiness. I was about to lie down in my bed when I heard a noise from outside my room. Because I'm a curious person, of course I'll check what kind of noise it is or who's making noise at this time of night. I walked to the door of my room and turned the doorknob and opened it.

After midnight, the city tested the house the way a patient tests a healed scar. Dreams came to the cousins first. Chairs tilted. Bells rang in halls that had sworn not to. A woman who had survived three winters by washing other people’s grief out of shirts woke to find her hands folded as if in prayer. A boy sat up with a scream he forgave himself for before breath had finished apologizing. Silas, in his room, put a hand to his chest and admired the instrument he had tuned even as he refused to name it aloud: The Vigil of Keeps—a citywide sleep in which appetites could be sanctified without mess. In the Valehart study, where the lamp learned green nightly and the hinge had the sill, Evelyn

She had woken up at five in the morning, her alarm clock on her phone blaring in her right ear after she had fallen asleep on it listening to the same cyberpunk ASMR video that had sent her off into unconsciousness for the past week. It had been nice to be told that she was helpful in some way, even if that way was being used in an illegal drug trial after being kidnapped from the Serial Experiments Lain club, to help get her to sleep, the paranoia fuelled insomnia developing when she was thirteen, latching its hooks into her brain, and then never leaving her again alone in the dark of night. It had always taken her a few minutes to shake off the night’s nightmares, when she awoke in the mor

I've got the rest. 'Thank you.' 'Always. Now go sleep while you can.' She was right. "We should sleep," I told David. "Sarah will be here at ten. We have two hours." "Two whole hours." We went to bed. Actually went to bed at a reasonable hour. Set an alarm for 9:45 p.m. Before Sarah arrived. Slept for ninety minutes straight. Woke up feeling almost human. "This is what normal people feel like," David said.

Just forget it. Fourth stage - Experiment Yeah right... When i woke up at hospital with all those 'family' around me, oh i forgot Sebastian was there too, I tried to swallow loads of sleeping pills i stole from the medics, but they made me puke the entire pills and trust me it was disgusting. They made sure that i puked everything i ate.. Ewww. I tried to sleep peacefully and eventually wake up from this long ass dream but everytime i wake up the familiar hospital walls and the little girl lying on the couch of the room were the only things i see...

"I'll contact you after I finish the experiment." After getting a response, Branden left feeling reassured. The experiment calculations continued until the next morning, which was quite normal for the laboratory. Experiments were long and tedious, often causing researchers to stay awake for days and nights, fully immersed in the laboratory. After a sleepless night, both Catherine and Rodge were still energetic. They had become accustomed to these days without a sense of time. Rodge's mood was evidently high. The problem that had tormented him for a week was easily solved after Catherine appeared.

said Craya. “It’s almost as if…...” Sho paused as he pondered “Craya, hold on reporting his results, and Jude hold still, don’t leave this room” he said as he left the room. I crawled back to my bed confused, but what could I do with what I could not understand. All I managed was a yawn. “Oh! the 24-hour sleep cycle. This would be my first time seeing a human sleep”, said Craya. “What do you mean, don’t you sleep” I asked

The words he was about to say died in his throat, and he instinctively quieted his breathing. They had taken turns resting through the night, but Nyla had stayed awake the entire time, overseeing the experiment. She must have been exhausted. Ruby Jenner gently draped a lab coat over Nyla, her movements unusually tender for someone typically so energetic and direct. She whispered to Leon, "Let Nyla sleep for a bit. We'll wake her around seven." Leon nodded. "Got it." The two sat down and quietly began analyzing the experiment data. The only sounds in the lab were the soft scratching of pens against paper and Nyla's faint breathing as she slept.