Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Gateway of the Mind

In 1983, a team of deeply pious scientists conducted a radical experiment in an undisclosed facility. The scientists had theorized that a human without access to any senses or ways to perceive stimuli would be able to perceive the presence of God. They believed that the five senses clouded our awareness of eternity, and without them, a human could actually establish contact with God by thought.

An elderly man who claimed to have “nothing to left to live for” was the only test subject to volunteer. To purge him of all his senses, the scientists performed a complex operation in which every sensory nerve connection to the brain was surgically severed. Although the test subject retained full muscular function, he could not see, hear, taste, smell, or feel. With no possible way to communicate with or even sense the outside world, he was alone with his thoughts.

Scientists monitored him as he spoke aloud about his state of mind in jumbled, slurred sentences that he couldn’t even hear. After four days, the man claimed to be hearing hushed, unintelligible voices in his head. Assuming it was an onset of psychosis, the scientists paid little attention to the man’s concerns.

Two days later, the man cried that he could hear his dead wife speaking with him, and even more, he could communicate back. The scientists were intrigued, but were not convinced until the subject started naming dead relatives of the scientists. He repeated personal information to the scientists that only their dead spouses and parents would have known. At this point, a sizable portion of scientists left the study.

After a week of conversing with the deceased through his thoughts, the subject became distressed, saying the voices were overwhelming. In every waking moment, his consciousness was bombarded by hundreds of voices that refused to leave him alone. He frequently threw himself against the wall, trying to elicit a pain response. He begged the scientists for sedatives, so he could escape the voices by sleeping. This tactic worked for three days, until he started having severe night terrors. The subject repeatedly said that he could see and hear the deceased in his dreams.

Only a day later, the subject began to scream and claw at his non-functional eyes, hoping to sense something in the physical world. The hysterical subject now said the voices of the dead were deafening and hostile, speaking of hell and the end of the world. At one point, he yelled “No heaven, no forgiveness” for five hours straight. He continually begged to be killed, but the scientists were convinced that he was close to establishing contact with God.

After another day, the subject could no longer form coherent sentences. Seemingly mad, he started to bite off chunks of flesh from his arm. The scientists rushed into the test chamber and restrained him to a table so he could not kill himself. After a few hours of being tied down, the subject halted his struggling and screaming. He stared blankly at the ceiling as teardrops silently streaked across his face. For two weeks, the subject had to be manually rehydrated due to the constant crying.


Eventually, he turned his head and, despite his blindness, made focused eye contact with a scientist for the first time in the study. He whispered “I have spoken with God, and he has abandoned us” and his vital signs stopped. There was no apparent cause of death.

16 comments:

  1. That was the best story I have ever read. Thank you so much for writing this piece.

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  2. Good pasta, but it's already been posted, I'm sure I've read it on this site before.

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  3. Anon2: That was creepypasta.com, guy. You'd think you read it here because both sites are black, but in reality I never posted this before.

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  4. im so going to try this lol

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  5. Inunah : Oh, sorry, then. I was pretty sure it was here, not only because of the black site color ! I've read the integrality of your blog, and I was sure I read it.
    But, you must be right. Sorry and thanks. :)

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  6. This was such a brief, yet intense story, that with all the development and deeper stages of the state of the test subject, it made my stomach turn. Thank you.

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  7. Something about human experimentation unsettles me. So this story was... unsettling .___.

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  8. Unique concept, carried out without any wastage of words. Impressive.

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  10. Easily the best story on this website, i am far from a religious person but this story kept me up at night... i would love to know who wrote this in hopes that some of his other stories are anywhere near this... rememberable, i even sent this to someone who is into creepy stuff more than i am and she couldn't sleep, usually the only thing that freaks her out like that is clowns.

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  11. Still one of my favorite pastas. I make all my friends read this. Very well written and it has a certain vibe that unsettles you without resorting to outright horror writing. i love it.

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  12. I just keep coming back for this story every once in a while... Definitely one of my fav.

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  13. Reminds me of 'Russian Sleep Experiment' a little. I seem to remember hearing there is a time period between the onset of deafness and the complete deterioration of a person's speach beyond recognition, too. All told, great pasta.

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  14. It really taps into the reader's fear (at least for me it does) of God abandoning us/you.

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