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Item #: SCP-5000

Object Class: Keter

Special Containment Procedures:
SCP-5000 cannot be contained at this time due to its unpredictable nature.

Foundation personnel should refrain from interacting with patients diagnosed with SCP-5000 as no containment protocols are required at this current time. Doctors around the world are instructed on how to sustain patients diagnosed with SCP-5000 as a result of the successful Operation False Codex (See Addendum 5000-000).

However, In the exceedingly rare event that an SCP-5000-NEU1 instance exists, Foundation personnel should be automatically alerted to said hospital that houses SCP-5000-NEU by virtue of Foundation-controlled medical institude that specializes in "hyperactive coma".

Once alerted, SCP-5000-NEU instances are to be detained immediately and should be transfered to Site-98. SCP-5000-NEU instances are designated level 3 containment priority.

Description:

SCP-5000 is a neurological anomalous event that only occurs in humanoid-type brains. Although SCP-5000 can manifest in anyone at any time regardless of age, sex, race or mental state, it is presumed that humanoid caucasian males between the ages of 14 to 63 that are in good to pristine mental-health condition have a highest chance of falling ill to SCP-5000.

Pre-symptoms of SCP-5000 are non-existent; SCP-5000 most certainly manifests in a victim at once at an unpredictable time frame. After that, the victim will enter a physical state of sleep that is similar to a Persistent Vegetative State2.
The undeterminable duration in which a victim will experience SCP-5000 is between 9 to 86 days.
Any attempts to force victims out of the prolonged state of unconsciousness are deemed useless and impossible.

While patients are in the deep state of said sleep, it could be labeled by the few survivors as a traumatic and agonizing dream that is indistiguishable from reality. SCP-5000 is dream sequence that is exclusive to each victim based on its personal experiences, locations, characters, events, items, objects, etc that the victim had consciously or sub-consciously interacted with atleast once during their lifetime.

Survivors describe the dream

What grants SCP-5000 anomalous recognition is it causes neurons in the brain to fire at an exceptional rate for the duration. In addition, some patients display various physical traits while unconscious such as:

  • Speak uncontexted and incomprehensible words.
  • Open their eyes and look around, unconsciously.
  • Sleepwalking.
  • Scratching objects with its nails during said "sleepwalking".
  • Attempting to commit self-inflicted injury by scratching itself using its own nails.

After the duration is over, most victims will be deceased and diagnosed with brain-death. Nonetheless, there are singular scarce occasions where an individual survives SCP-5000. These individuals are to be redesignated as SCP-5000-NEU. Please note that these instances are no longer anomalous by any means.

Statistically as of today, an individuals chance to survive SCP-5000 is 7.772%.

Researcher Locke: "Is it on?"
[REDACTED]: (BROADCASTING) "Yeah"
Researcher Locke: "Good."
Researcher Locke: "Okay. Umm. Today is 19/08/2006, Interview with Richard D. Campell AKA SCP-5000 survivor number [DATA EXPUNGED]."
Researcher Locke: "Let him in please."
DOOR OPENS
RICHARD CAMPELL COMES IN
Researcher Locke: "Hi Rich, How are you? Please sit right there, make yourself comfortab-"
Richard Campell: "How long am I supposed to be in here?"
Researcher Locke: "Depends on your cooperation. Please sit"
RICHARD SITS
DOOR LOCKS
Researcher Locke: "How are you feeling today?"
Richard Campell: "Im.. fine."
Richard Campell: "I've told you guys guys already all I know."
RESEARCHER LOCKE GOES THROUGH FILES
Researcher Locke: "Tell me, Do you know what's your chance to survive a hyperactive coma?"

Addendum 500-000: OPERATION FALSE CODEX
With the help of world-known nobel laureate and physiology expert Dr. Steven [REDACTED] and major neurologist Professor Karen [REDACTED], the wide public now recognizes SCP-5000 as an official neurological disorder. It is now defined as an "Hyperactive Persistent Vegetative State" or simply put "hyperactive coma".

Due to that fact, modern doctors are simply unaware of "hyperactive coma" being anomalous or supernatural; this effectively disguises SCP-5000 anomalous nature from the naked eye.

Public awareness of hyperactive coma is very minimal since an individuals chance to fall ill with SCP-5000 is still astronomicly low.

Addendum 500-001: HISTORY
The first recorded instance of an SCP-5000 patient was a male named Steven Mason in 19/08/1921.

Addendum 500-002: Manifestation Theory
Theories about SCP-5000's existence and anomalous nature range from a type of genetic defect that is undetectable yet, or even the tinkering and altering numerous biological/reality-changing SCPs by either Foundation personnel or other GoI personnel. Interestingly, diagnosis of SCP-5000 in the last 10 years has risen by 67% but still remains a small amount.

Corrently, only 336 SCP-5000-NEU instances ever existed. ███ out of these survivors have commited suicide somewhat after being released from foundation custody. 92.5% of survivors show symptoms atleast two mental illnesses - such as chronic depression, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and borderline personality disorder. Interestingly, only 4% of the survivors have a history of being mentaly ill before experiencing SCP-5000.

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