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Item #: SCP-XXXX

Object Class: Euclid (Formerly Keter)

Special Containment Procedures: Foundation agents are to monitor all medical visits regarding sleep deprivation. Scientific journals mentioning SCP-XXXX's association with anomalous activity are to be discredited and removed from civilian academia.

MTF Mu-4 ("Debuggers") is tasked to maintain and repair all relevant electronic equipment to prevent a re-occurrence of SCP-XXXX.

Description: SCP-XXXX is the state of "sleeplessness".

An individual affected by SCP-XXXX experiences partial loss of motor control of the eyelids. Should the subject forcibly close their eyes for a prolonged period of time, they assume a sleep-like state as shown from the relaxation of the muscles and the transition to rapidly fluctuating neocortical EEG waves (signaling attainment of REM sleep). After approximately 50 seconds, the subject awakens in a state of shock, reporting a sensation of "falling from a great height". This cycle continues until the subject abandons their attempt to sleep.

Continued exposure to SCP-XXXX leads to behavioral alterations that are commonly observed among insomniacs. For the first few occurrences, most subjects experience mild fatigue. As the frequency of these occurrences increases, subjects develop mood swings and emergent signs of paranoia. These conditions worsen in severity to the point of irreversible damage to the subject's lifestyle and their outlook on topics.

SCP-XXXX manifestations had been sporadic and initially dismissed. However, the longest SCP-XXXX event occurred across a span of two days, from 02/06/2020 to 02/08/2020, prompting Foundation intervention. Notable events were:

• Several civilians collapsing on sidewalks and roads.
• Simultaneous vehicle-to-vehicle collisions across multiple highways.
• Social unrest within urban centers.
• Drop in productivity rates across Foundation departments.

An array of supercomputers discovered within the vault.

Addendum XXXX-1: On 02/06/2020 at 0320 EST, Foundation satellites detected a sudden drop in online activity. sophia.aic triangulated the source originating from the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, Norway. MTF units were dispatched to the location. Upon further investigation, a hidden passageway within the vault led to a laboratory¹ containing several arrays of supercomputers, with a REAL S.L.E.E.P² logo embossed on each one. An incapacitated³ human male, identified to be Alvårik Matricus, was discovered next to one of the supercomputers, with one of its racks ejected.

The corresponding command module screen displayed a layout similar to that of an Internet Relay Chat. The sidebar contained six "rooms" titled: "Americas", "Middle East", "Asia", "Europe", "Oceania" and "Africa". Within each "room", logs indicated that billions of users⁴ repeatedly attempted to enter before being kicked. An error message flashed on the screen, mentioning an issue connecting the users to their allocated "rooms". Background checks indicated that Alvårik Marticus had been a survivalist and a descendent of the founder of REAL S.L.E.E.P⁵, explaining his enthusiasm to seek employment to the vault in 2007.

Alvårik Marticus admitted that the vault would experience momentary power cuts from time to time due to unfavorable weather conditions and claimed that the supercomputers were "a way to serve as backup storage during a catastrophic event".

The laboratory has been placed under Foundation control. Containment procedures have been updated to reflect this change.

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Footnotes

1. The cooling system was offline during this time.

2. Abbreviated as Synchronized Lapse in Electroencephalogram

3. Possibly as a result of SCP-XXXX

4. The usernames only consisted of numerical values ranging from 1~7,500,000,000.

5. Its exact origin is unknown, but it has been theorized to have existed as early as the 19th Century. Its methods on avoiding a prolonged duration of SCP-XXXX during that time remain unclear, although it has been theorized the use of a combination of anomalous machinery and metaphysics.