Fighting Sleep
How the military used sleep as a weapon--and how soldiers fought backOn April 21, 1971, hundreds of Vietnam veterans fell asleep on the National Mall, wondering whether they would be arrested by daybreak. When the Supreme Court denied their petition, they decided to break the law… Celý popis ↓
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Fighting Sleep
How the military used sleep as a weapon--and how soldiers fought backOn April 21, 1971, hundreds of Vietnam veterans fell asleep on the National Mall, wondering whether they would be arrested by daybreak. When the Supreme Court denied their petition, they decided to break the law and turned sleep into a form of direct action.During and after the Second World War, military psychiatrists used sleep therapies to treat an epidemic of "combat fatigue." Inducing deep and twilight sleep in clinical settings, they studied the effects of war violence on the mind and developed the techniques of brainwashing that would weaponize both memory and sleep. Veterans had fought the courts for the right to sleep in public while demonstrating against the war.
In the Vietnam War era, radical veterans reclaimed the authority to interpret their own traumatic symptoms--nightmares, flashbacks,
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