Russian sleep experiment

"What are you?" The guard demanded. "I must know!" The subject smiled. "Have you forgotten so easily?" The subject asked. "We are you. We are the madness that lurks within you all, begging to be free at every moment in your deepest animal mind. We are what you hide from

In your beds every night. We are what you sedate into silence and paralysis when you go to the nocturnal heaven where we cannot tread" the guard paused. Then aimed at the subjects heart and fired.

The EEG flatlined as the subject weakly choked out, "so...nearly...free..."