Russian Sleep (was Re: Dr. Patrick Flanagan?)

From: Michael M. Butler (butler@comp-lib.org)
Date: Fri May 07 1999 - 18:31:41 MDT


Suggestion: try a Dogpile search on "Russian sleep", "elektroson" and
"electronarcosis".

Soviet experimenters ballyhooed this back in the 60s. The idea was to use
electrodes fixed on the eyelids and behind the ears to induce relaxed
(correlated with alpha or theta brainwaves) states. It's possible that
there was some entrainment effect due to e.g. phosphenes (the "lights"
sometimes seen when one rubs one's eyes).

Reported results by Western researchers through around 1973 were mixed and
inconclusive.

>sketchy. I also had heard discussion once of a "russian sleeping machine."
>I searched the web and found no information on it. Thanks for the help on
>any resources that might help me better investigate.
>
>Here was one URL about his work:
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>http://www.worldtrans.org/spir/neuro.html
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>Challenge me!
>Jasmine
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