Benacian Sleep Experiment

The Benacian Sleep Experiment, a series of tests conducted by the Benacian Academy during 1726 AN, for the purpose of improving the speed at which conditioned social harmonisation could be delivered to loyal subjects of the Benacian Union.

Eight volunteers, drawn from the penitentiary reform settlements of Leng where applicants had been recruited with the promise of a commutation of their sentences, were transferred to a research station on the island. Commencing from the day of their arrival, the volunteers were sedated by clinicians at eight pm and subjected to subliminal messaging during their mandated eight hours of sleep. Throughout the period of sleep the test subjects were observed by a team of clinicians supervised by medical academicians. These eight hour sleep cycles continued for a total of eight days, after which time the volunteers were transferred to a special annex of the Svorgas Reform Settlement for a further eight weeks of close monitoring. After eight months of evaluation, during which time their internalisation of Humanist doctrine and command responses were tested against a control group of regular indoctrination subjects, the eight volunteers were terminated and their remains cremated.