the petri dish test was run to prove that only active brain matter was being targeted by the spiders, as brain matter with no electrical activity did not react with the A specimen
To have someone make a connection between a hypnic jerk and being touched by a fourth dimensional being is pretty brilliant. Everything kind of gels with this SCP, and that's actually a little disturbing.
Until you lie in bed eating a cheesecake and keep almost falling asleep, then jerking awake as the cold cheesecake hits your arm. Kind of detracts from a bit of the "ooh maybe" element of hypnopompic▪︎ jerks being caused by dream-spiders. Its not like one of them is watching me with the cheesecake and going "now is the time for me to fold my brain cells away.." and then failing, only to try again 4 times in a row with the exact same result. Pretty dumb spider... ▪︎ Yeah fun fact: its not actually "hypnic", the correct word is much more fun 😁
“Our bodies have a defense against this” Wait, what? We evolved a defense against higher dimensional beings reaching into our brain during sleep? How is that not the most interesting part of the tale! Great upload. Be well, everyone!
There are lots of things our bodies do inadvertently. Something of a pet peeve of mine when people say we "evolved" a biological function that could just as easily have been there right from the start.
@@xcritic9671 I hear you. My remark was about the SCP universe, not ours. (I hope there is a difference!). The possible implication is these entities have interacted with SCP Universe humans for a very long time, which could make for some interesting SCP tales for us all in the future.
@@xcritic9671 technically literally every single function of biological existence is evolved in some form or another, with the only a few notable exceptions being like how the mitochondria is actually the result of a symbiotic relationship between early cells and proto-mitochondria
@@Gogglesofkrome Don't know about all of that, we weren't really talking about cellular level stuff. Naturally humans adapt to their surroundings, but as a general rule only change as much as the environment, and it wasn't terribly different a few thousand years ago than it is now. What I do find interesting is the differences over the various climates of the world, like Pygmies and Sherpa's.
@Sam Girdich humans in the SCP universe also have entire antimemetic part of the ear so it’s not that big of a stretch to assume that they also have other anomalous parts of the body.
It's refreshing to see a more science heavy article on the wiki. Many of them don't feel like they take full advantage of the characters educations and backgrounds, but just slap a doctor label onto whatever was roaming about in their brains without thinking about how that background would change how the character reacts.
Of course polly is concerned about being a test subject. She knows that, in the foundation, "Test subject" is one tiny bit of bad luck away from "S.C.P." and permanent solitary confinement, at best.
Monster? No. Definable? Never. Plus when it comes to The Foundation, being a test subject means there’s a huge chance that you’ll end up dead by the end of the test
But don’t the more passive sentient SCP’s have more freedoms such as roaming around designated parts of the facility that is accommodated to their needs? I heard one of those facilities was like that, basically like prison except the inmates are more neighborly, little to no violence, and zero shower rape.
"Just a head's up, we're gonna have a superconductor turned up full-blast and pointed at you for the duration of this next test. I'll be honest, we're throwing science at the wall here to see what sticks. No idea what it'll do. Probably nothing. Best-case scenario, you might get some superpowers. Worst-case some tumors - which we'll cut out." Cave Johnson uses the same philosophy as the Foundation
Literally went to watch this video to take a break from studying for A Level Chem. First few minutes into the video and the talk about amino acids triggered my anxiety again
@@miffedmeff7302 I literally just finished an online class discussing proteins and used this video as a way to relax only to hear about an anomalous amino acid
Hey, bachelors of biochemistry here. You know how proteins are made out of "amino acids?" The amine group is a nitrogen with 2-3 hydrogens (positively charged in acidic solutions) and the acid side is a carboxylic acid a carbon double bonded to one oxygen and singly bonded to one which has 1 or 0 hydrogen atoms (negatively charged in basic solutions). Normally amino acids attach their amino groups to the preceding amino acid's carboxylic side and it is convention to read amino acids starting at the amino or N terminus (N for nitrogen) and read them until the C terminus (for carbon). If this anomaly has no C terminus that means it could go on forever.... strange Edited Addendum: What it appears is going on here is that the SCP 3966-A and SCP 3966-B are web proteins with tertiary structures folded in 4 spacial dimensions. Normally, our proteins first fold into secondary structures largely consisting of alpha helixes and beta-pleated sheets (google has some good images if you are curious about the shapes) after which, through a process we do not fully understand these sections will be folded like origami into what we call tertiary structures [we understand the basic physics but the process is so advanced that our fold prediction programs are often horribly wrong about the final shape]. If the protein is designed to bind with another partner (like the hemoglobin protein which requires 2 alpha hemoglobins and 2 beta hemoglobins in a tetramer) then it will finally fold into a quaternary structure which is sometimes "glued" together with disulfide bonds. What this forth dimensional spiderweb appears to be made of is a 4D folded alpha protein (SCP 3966-A) and a 3D folded beta protein (SCP 3966-B) both connected to each other in a quaternary structure. Normally, I would call it a dimer as it appears to have 2 main proteins but since the protein appears to be 4 dimensional there may be more proteins we simply are unable to see. Ultimately, there is a 4D species of spider that likes to web up parts of our brain for some reason and we can't dodge them. I hope you like my over-explanation of this SCP, guess I'm just bored
Hey, Masters physics here. I doubt it! - (not that I understood what you said ...:P) - but with respect to the final conclusion, (I.e. "it could go on forever") - I can say with rather definitive certainty, that whatever it is, it won't go on forever i'm afraid...:D
So then the reason the Doctor, the Assistant, and the D-Class were being so heavily affected wasn't an infection, but just physical proximity to the samples and expirements, since said samples and expirements were basically tugging on the webs, thus drawing the spiders' attention. So the good news is that physical distance and time are all it should take for them to get back to normal.
I surprised nobody else has talked about the banana spiders anymore. I was confused initially why they were finally able to sleep in the Banna Spiders containment chamber but it’s cause they can catch 4th Dimensional beings and the 4D spiders were scared. Also I thought it was oddly and funnily wholesome that he brought the DClass in to enjoy the serenity finally.
Physical Distance would be difficult to measure here, since our 3D world is a manifold in (at least) 4-dimensional space. So it would depend on the manifold's shape itself as to the proximity of the 4D spider. Think a 2D piece of paper crumpled into a 3D ball (it's manifold in 3 dimensional space), where 2 points of the paper that are "far away" when laid out flat can be close together in 3 dimensions.
i like the parallel to the dream spider in native folklore. to save humans from horrible dreams it weaved a web over their heads to catch the nightmares. natives emulate this by making dream catchers. so the banana spiders scp was doing the same thing, i think, but in a 4th dimension sense instead of dreams. also tesseracts
@@haphazardlark1502 Nothing to do with dreamcatchers. The room of spiders he slept in is another scp. Those spiders can make webs that can interact with other dimensions so they're able to catch otherworldly beings. The spiders that are interrupting our dreams are doing so because they're feeding on our brains and our body wakes us up to prevent it. We can't do anything about it because they aren't physically in our 3 dimensional space but the webs from the other spiders can tho I'm not really sure how waking up prevents them from eating us. It's not really stated if those webs capture the other spiders and they starve to death or if it just scares them away as some territorial thing. It's a cool interaction between two different scps that are both spiders, one is otherworldly and eats your brains and the other eats the otherworldly spiders that we otherwise cant touch. Ironic that the solution to spiders is more spiders...
I love when someone manages to take abstract sci-fi concepts that we have no idea how it would actually work and apply extreme science to it. And now it's a creepy story on the internet. "How would a 4th dimensional creature interact with 3d beings?" "Biology that can transfer material through 3d amino acids that fold into 4d space" Like it's brilliant. My brain, instead of 'hurting' like high-concepts can do sometimes, finds joy in this idea. Its so complex, yet in an abstract way so simple.
If you like that type of sci-fi I would highly recommend Asimovs books. The gods themselves touches on the dimensional stuff you would like. The audio book is fantastic if your lazy and don't read.
a 4D folded protein is one of the coolest concepts I've ever heard! also good to know that even extradimensional anomalous proteins still have a c terminus lmao
@@undeadprinceofchaos3731 Yes. the atmosphere the author created was captivating. In science, you mull over many research papers containing 5-12 experiments each, with the goal of understanding what links all these seemingly unrelated ideas together. My PI ( the head of a lab) had literally ~50 papers on his desk that he would cycle through, just to see if he could come up with some idea that all other scientists missed, or don't see the potential in, etc. Imagine working 60+ hours every week, busting your ass intellectually, reading all available information on a topic, proposing experiments to create new knowledge (many failing ). Then you just let your brain relax, get some morning coffee, all of that info swirling in your head, tired from the hard work and countless failures. Then suddenly something clicks! you have a revelation that you weren't able to connect before. It could be a new method to test your experiment or a slight change to your existing procedure. Finally, progress.... kinda. Repeat 3 more times, and you might have a paper to publish
@@undeadprinceofchaos3731 Now for the SCP universe, imagine if what you discovered was not a new understanding of human physiology or anovel cancer drug, but something as awful as this? This story is thought-provoking but the author doesn't reward you for your hard work of discovery, you feel horrified- like maybe you shouldn't have learned this. It's like a modern Lovecraft story, but the added technical flair is so awesome !!
And of course this isn't helped by the fact that science states that although examination of cosmic gravitational forces disproves the existence of 4D objects/entities of normal scale the existence of 4D entities on the microscopic scale (as seen in SCP-3966) is entirely impossible to confirm/disprove/observe with modern technology. *Click "read more" for other horrors* Also there's the fact that the increase in the number of spacial dimensions could allow for an increase in the number of neuron connections meaning the minimum scale for an organism to have intelligence and sophisticated hunting methods decreases dramatically with the added dimension. Have fun sleeping tonight ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
@@subnerdicafan2823 Actually it is known that the universe has an average curvature of .005, but we don’t know whether the curvature is positive or negative. Positive curvature would mean the universe could be huge, but negative means it’s infinite.
I came to know of this way, you just slow your heart beat down through whatever means like breathing slowly. It works 100% even if you know you are going to die tomorrow or there is a heard of spiders and cockroaches in your room.
I had a friend who passed away from SUNDS years ago and it absolutely destroyed her family. To think someone can be completely healthy and normal and then overnight have something catastrophic happen that takes them in their sleep is so crazy to me. I liked this story a lot because it gives a story to something like SUNDS that really makes you wonder...
"If I have to sleep with the spiders, I will." Out of context, this sounds like a totally different kind of SCP. One that demands a certain kind of "sacrifice".
And spiders I will do, but I draw the line at dung beetles and leeches. Big enough one of those bastards will suck you dry through the main vein, if it doesn't suck _YOUR_ "leech" right the hell off...
Reminds me of SCP-1004. A disc that has all porn imaginable, and it gets crazier the more someone gets addicted to it until they kill themselves during a sex act
@@coleozaeta6344 I was thinking more of Portal 2's "Perpetual Testing Initiative", specifically where the Aperture Rituals version of Cave Johnson asked "Who's ready to make love to a giant bird?", since that's supposed to forestall the end of days in that universe.
*I don't need sleep, I need answers.* Finishes video, hears about 4th dimensional brain sucking spiders *I don't need sleep.* -Deja Vu gang. Here before this was reuploaded. I thought that was my headphones acting up lmao-
this kinda came at the perfect time because tomorrow is my first day of school and I just build a pc today and I can’t sleep and I wanted to listen to this dude I because I usually fall asleep during them, AND it’s about sleep too. big run on sentence there, but basically everything is perfect.
I find it funny that the SCP foundation's immediate reaction is "stick it in a D-class" and only after that do they think ''do some tests in a petri dish''
Even though I didnt like the story I liked the explanation at the ending saying that the remaining doctor and D-class were able to sleep with the spiders because the 4th dimensional spider webs got caught in their webs. It reminds me of something I find comforting about cellar spiders, they're known to eat other spiders, including I think a few poisonous spiders.
I always enjoy scps that make everyday things into horror. One of the first I saw was 1507, the lawn flamingos that attack people. I think it helps make the scp universe feel real and means that whenever you see one of those things now you will think the classic “what if”
Honestly, this is one of the coolest SCPs. I've always loved SCPs that tackle things that happened in the real world, and SCP-3966 tackled it so masterfully and in such a smart way I can't help but be in awe.
I love how you don't just read the article verbatim (which in my opinion is really dull and boring but i can see some appeal to it for background noises.) and actually talks and explain about the SCP. And actually covered interesting SCP stories instead of just the famous ones. I hope many more is to come, live long and prosper, been a subscriber since the elder scrolls and middle earth lore days. :D
@@philbert85 I know what you mean! That's exactly where I first heard it too, but I just really want the exploring series to give it more.. In-depth detail?
One of the the good old scps. Honestly, the scps from at least a year ago backwards are gold, the new generation scps from the last one year are just not the same anymore. The old scps are just built different, their writers are phenomenal, and I love every single one of them. I don't watch the recent scps regularly anymore
Those jumps are really unsettling if you've ever had one. In my case it feels like either: a. Slipping in place (like a banana peel or ice or something) b. As if you're dangling from a suspension apparatus and it suddenly breaks, then you fall about 10-20 feet before you snap awake
I have the comic The Head is from. It's DC Vertigo "Enigma" by Peter Milligan and Duncan Fegredo. Great book about powerful reality warpers any scp fan would enjoy. The Head in particular is relevant as he greatly enjoys sucking the brains out, devouring memories like fine wine.
This was fascinating. It almost sounds like one of those things that seem like magic right now, but just might be able to be explained by science. Very very cool!
This isn’t even the first SCP to be about something slowly/steadily eating your brain while you are otherwise unaware. A LOT of SCPs are trying to eat your brains.
@@stevus23 what if the new chapter of their life is moving to a secret terrorist organisation to develop a potent biochemical weapon that makes your skin turn inside out? Dangerous to be throwing out these good-lucks all willy nilly 🤔
Thank for this! This Scip caught my attention when I first read it. I kinda understand the gist of the article but the huge amount of scientific language made me think I've missed something. Thank you for filling out that gap in our knowledge. This is now my newest Fave Scip.
Do you guys work-out? I remember having the exact same thing back when I ate alot of bread/pasta/potatoes(heavy carbs) and I didnt work-out. After I stopped eating that, and started working out, it immediately ceased.
@@Jack-yq6ui Im just getting over a cold and got a cough that I get about every time at this year. I have a sensitive gag reflex or stumic? (not related to swallowing food, idk, its wierd) so coughing easily triggers it. x_x Im not a heavy carb eater so I dont think thats it, but thanks, will have to keep that in mind
Eight legged horrors above are world. Feeding on our minds, preying on us while we dream. A horror that we can only escape from when we’re outside of our nocturnal haven.
Using Flatland to explain higher dimensions is like using a single picture to explain the flow of time. It would make sense to use a plane 1 atom thick and its interaction with more complex structures, but 2 dimensional objects can't exist in 3 dimensional space.
Me at 2 AM: I really need to sleep. Me at time of upload: Nevermind, twenty more minutes won't hurt. Me at end of video: You know what? I don't need sleep.
SnorgonOfBorkkad would it be so difficult to just leave me alone. Would it be so difficult to just write nothing. You write words but change nothing. So keep doing just that.
"Fantasy landscape to take your mind off the creepy SCP" But what else would we be here to listen you talk about the horrors of the foundation at 3am in the morning!?
I jerk awake usually 2-3 times a night. Doctors can’t explain why and pills don’t help me fall asleep only make me sleep longer in the morning. So thank you so much for this one.
A small but crucial bit of praise: thank you for not having the last word in this video (or any other I can think of) be something like “right?” I can’t imagine something more trite and hacky than that. All I ask is that you just keep it up.
It does make you wonder if 3966 and 848 are some kind of natural enemies or distant cousins. Like one moved to explore the 4th dimension, while another tried to make dimensional anchors. Maybe both in response to some other dimensional event.
listening to this after finishing a Macbeth audiodrama: "Methought I heard a voice cry, “Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep”-the innocent sleep, Sleep that knits up the raveled sleave of care, The death of each day’s life, sore labor’s bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature’s second course, Chief nourisher in life’s feast."
Just came home from my first day of senior year. Everything is messy and unorganized, but at least I got this present when I clicked on RUclips. Thanks a lot for your videos, they're extremely calming
The majority of SCPs are based off of real life things, some SCPs, though, are created to give an explanation for some things that we don't know much about
There are two videos I look forward to you eventually covering. One covering the Department of Abnormalities, and the one covering the SCP I’m writing.
You should definitely do a video going over some of the k class scenarios. Especially because you don't just read word for word off of the wiki so your take would be amazing
The most anomalous thing in this article: "the second test was done in a petri dish, not a live human"
Did you comment on datto’s community announcement?
Whether we wanted it or not, we’ve stepped into a war with the cabal on mars...
Hey, they don’t ALWAYS involved human lab rats in their experiments or tests
@@bigversace1472 at this point I believe that destiny 2 is a fucking cognitohazard
Wait a minute, you died off screen. Go on, git!
“...and if he has to sleep with the spiders, he will.”
I think this man *is* the Foundation personified.
Gotta love the Foundation's ethics: "Try it on a D-Class first, then we'll move on to using a petri dish."
SCP writers really seem to lean into the idea of infinite D-class. Evidently they're cheaper than petri dishes. 😄
@@twistedtachyon5877 Plenty of people in the world wouldn't be missed if anything happened to them. You could almost call it an infinite amount. 🙃
the petri dish test was run to prove that only active brain matter was being targeted by the spiders, as brain matter with no electrical activity did not react with the A specimen
@@skeetsvar162especially considering there are several sources of infinite D class.
@@jwalster9412including reprimanded SCPF staff
To have someone make a connection between a hypnic jerk and being touched by a fourth dimensional being is pretty brilliant. Everything kind of gels with this SCP, and that's actually a little disturbing.
Until you lie in bed eating a cheesecake and keep almost falling asleep, then jerking awake as the cold cheesecake hits your arm.
Kind of detracts from a bit of the "ooh maybe" element of hypnopompic▪︎ jerks being caused by dream-spiders. Its not like one of them is watching me with the cheesecake and going "now is the time for me to fold my brain cells away.." and then failing, only to try again 4 times in a row with the exact same result. Pretty dumb spider...
▪︎ Yeah fun fact: its not actually "hypnic", the correct word is much more fun 😁
i get hypnic jerks on my chest, literally feels like an entity going through me, like light
@@swine13 That just seems like the hypnopompic jerk has multiple uses
“Our bodies have a defense against this” Wait, what? We evolved a defense against higher dimensional beings reaching into our brain during sleep? How is that not the most interesting part of the tale! Great upload. Be well, everyone!
There are lots of things our bodies do inadvertently. Something of a pet peeve of mine when people say we "evolved" a biological function that could just as easily have been there right from the start.
@@xcritic9671 I hear you. My remark was about the SCP universe, not ours. (I hope there is a difference!). The possible implication is these entities have interacted with SCP Universe humans for a very long time, which could make for some interesting SCP tales for us all in the future.
@@xcritic9671 technically literally every single function of biological existence is evolved in some form or another, with the only a few notable exceptions being like how the mitochondria is actually the result of a symbiotic relationship between early cells and proto-mitochondria
@@Gogglesofkrome Don't know about all of that, we weren't really talking about cellular level stuff. Naturally humans adapt to their surroundings, but as a general rule only change as much as the environment, and it wasn't terribly different a few thousand years ago than it is now. What I do find interesting is the differences over the various climates of the world, like Pygmies and Sherpa's.
@Sam Girdich humans in the SCP universe also have entire antimemetic part of the ear so it’s not that big of a stretch to assume that they also have other anomalous parts of the body.
It's refreshing to see a more science heavy article on the wiki. Many of them don't feel like they take full advantage of the characters educations and backgrounds, but just slap a doctor label onto whatever was roaming about in their brains without thinking about how that background would change how the character reacts.
That's inconceivably hard to do for a writer, especially in such a short time
@@f.p.2010
Yep. I'd imagine that not many good story tellers are also proficient in some scientific field.
Most writers are total plebes when it comes to science.
Kinda like the writers of Another Life on netflix.
@@JonDoe-uq1mk Yeah well, there is a SCP wiki, they can get plenty of science links for would-be writers.
Dr clef is just an anime cowboy.
Of course polly is concerned about being a test subject. She knows that, in the foundation, "Test subject" is one tiny bit of bad luck away from "S.C.P." and permanent solitary confinement, at best.
Monster? No. Definable? Never. Plus when it comes to The Foundation, being a test subject means there’s a huge chance that you’ll end up dead by the end of the test
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@@undeadprinceofchaos3731 end up dead? Im worried ending up immortally tortured.
@@undeadprinceofchaos3731 I think death would be a better option then what happens to most people at the foundation lol...
But don’t the more passive sentient SCP’s have more freedoms such as roaming around designated parts of the facility that is accommodated to their needs? I heard one of those facilities was like that, basically like prison except the inmates are more neighborly, little to no violence, and zero shower rape.
The foundation is a living testament to you dont know if you dont try;
"Oh whats this? A new anomalous brain fluid? Get me a d-class Jerry,"
That’s very understandable. If they find something weird, they have to test it and it usually involves human guinea pigs
"Just a head's up, we're gonna have a superconductor turned up full-blast and pointed at you for the duration of this next test. I'll be honest, we're throwing science at the wall here to see what sticks. No idea what it'll do. Probably nothing. Best-case scenario, you might get some superpowers. Worst-case some tumors - which we'll cut out."
Cave Johnson uses the same philosophy as the Foundation
“Oh no Jerry, I used too many d-class without permission and now I am the d-class in femur breaker. Help me Jer- AHHHHHHH”
This scp tackles the greatest fears I have at the moment: neurology and biochemistry.
Better off than me. I can't even read.
@Harold scp 3890
Literally went to watch this video to take a break from studying for A Level Chem. First few minutes into the video and the talk about amino acids triggered my anxiety again
@@miffedmeff7302 I literally just finished an online class discussing proteins and used this video as a way to relax only to hear about an anomalous amino acid
Same here!! Im taking physiological psychology and were discussing blood brain barrier n all its glory
Hey, bachelors of biochemistry here. You know how proteins are made out of "amino acids?" The amine group is a nitrogen with 2-3 hydrogens (positively charged in acidic solutions) and the acid side is a carboxylic acid a carbon double bonded to one oxygen and singly bonded to one which has 1 or 0 hydrogen atoms (negatively charged in basic solutions). Normally amino acids attach their amino groups to the preceding amino acid's carboxylic side and it is convention to read amino acids starting at the amino or N terminus (N for nitrogen) and read them until the C terminus (for carbon). If this anomaly has no C terminus that means it could go on forever.... strange
Edited Addendum: What it appears is going on here is that the SCP 3966-A and SCP 3966-B are web proteins with tertiary structures folded in 4 spacial dimensions. Normally, our proteins first fold into secondary structures largely consisting of alpha helixes and beta-pleated sheets (google has some good images if you are curious about the shapes) after which, through a process we do not fully understand these sections will be folded like origami into what we call tertiary structures [we understand the basic physics but the process is so advanced that our fold prediction programs are often horribly wrong about the final shape]. If the protein is designed to bind with another partner (like the hemoglobin protein which requires 2 alpha hemoglobins and 2 beta hemoglobins in a tetramer) then it will finally fold into a quaternary structure which is sometimes "glued" together with disulfide bonds. What this forth dimensional spiderweb appears to be made of is a 4D folded alpha protein (SCP 3966-A) and a 3D folded beta protein (SCP 3966-B) both connected to each other in a quaternary structure. Normally, I would call it a dimer as it appears to have 2 main proteins but since the protein appears to be 4 dimensional there may be more proteins we simply are unable to see.
Ultimately, there is a 4D species of spider that likes to web up parts of our brain for some reason and we can't dodge them. I hope you like my over-explanation of this SCP, guess I'm just bored
I was wondering the same thing, seems you beat me to the comment
Hey, Masters physics here. I doubt it! - (not that I understood what you said ...:P) - but with respect to the final conclusion, (I.e. "it could go on forever") - I can say with rather definitive certainty, that whatever it is, it won't go on forever i'm afraid...:D
@@Jack-yq6ui I was updating it as you wrote this, look like it's a 4D protein so it's not infinite
Yep. Yeah. Definitely understood all of this.
Joe Nelly yep. Got it all. Not over my head.
So then the reason the Doctor, the Assistant, and the D-Class were being so heavily affected wasn't an infection, but just physical proximity to the samples and expirements, since said samples and expirements were basically tugging on the webs, thus drawing the spiders' attention.
So the good news is that physical distance and time are all it should take for them to get back to normal.
I surprised nobody else has talked about the banana spiders anymore. I was confused initially why they were finally able to sleep in the Banna Spiders containment chamber but it’s cause they can catch 4th Dimensional beings and the 4D spiders were scared.
Also I thought it was oddly and funnily wholesome that he brought the DClass in to enjoy the serenity finally.
@@brandthacker8913 it ironic the only way to stop these spiders is with another spider
Or other spiders that could catch the 4th dimensional spiders in their web
Physical Distance would be difficult to measure here, since our 3D world is a manifold in (at least) 4-dimensional space. So it would depend on the manifold's shape itself as to the proximity of the 4D spider. Think a 2D piece of paper crumpled into a 3D ball (it's manifold in 3 dimensional space), where 2 points of the paper that are "far away" when laid out flat can be close together in 3 dimensions.
@@danebartlett3466 That's true, but I don't think it's particularly relevant in this specific situation.
i like the parallel to the dream spider in native folklore. to save humans from horrible dreams it weaved a web over their heads to catch the nightmares. natives emulate this by making dream catchers. so the banana spiders scp was doing the same thing, i think, but in a 4th dimension sense instead of dreams.
also tesseracts
I was wondering what on earth the sleeping in the spider room thing was about.
@@haphazardlark1502 Nothing to do with dreamcatchers. The room of spiders he slept in is another scp. Those spiders can make webs that can interact with other dimensions so they're able to catch otherworldly beings. The spiders that are interrupting our dreams are doing so because they're feeding on our brains and our body wakes us up to prevent it. We can't do anything about it because they aren't physically in our 3 dimensional space but the webs from the other spiders can tho I'm not really sure how waking up prevents them from eating us. It's not really stated if those webs capture the other spiders and they starve to death or if it just scares them away as some territorial thing. It's a cool interaction between two different scps that are both spiders, one is otherworldly and eats your brains and the other eats the otherworldly spiders that we otherwise cant touch. Ironic that the solution to spiders is more spiders...
@@DrakeOola oh, I just hadn’t heard of that scp. That makes more sense, thanks for answering!
I love when someone manages to take abstract sci-fi concepts that we have no idea how it would actually work and apply extreme science to it. And now it's a creepy story on the internet.
"How would a 4th dimensional creature interact with 3d beings?"
"Biology that can transfer material through 3d amino acids that fold into 4d space"
Like it's brilliant. My brain, instead of 'hurting' like high-concepts can do sometimes, finds joy in this idea. Its so complex, yet in an abstract way so simple.
This SCP is so unique for what it attempts and succeeds that
If you like that type of sci-fi I would highly recommend Asimovs books. The gods themselves touches on the dimensional stuff you would like. The audio book is fantastic if your lazy and don't read.
It's very creative and appropriately written rather than "extreme science", all it requieres is nothing more than some very basic biochemistry.
This one is real.. I'm still living proof...for now... now to just prove it
..oh crap and find someone who cares to prove it too.. fml RS...
a 4D folded protein is one of the coolest concepts I've ever heard! also good to know that even extradimensional anomalous proteins still have a c terminus lmao
I'm a senior biochemistry major, and I can say that the science was fairly interesting, especially to read on a SCP article.
In other words you can easily understand this better than anyone else.
@@undeadprinceofchaos3731 Yes. the atmosphere the author created was captivating.
In science, you mull over many research papers containing 5-12 experiments each, with the goal of understanding what links all these seemingly unrelated ideas together. My PI ( the head of a lab) had literally ~50 papers on his desk that he would cycle through, just to see if he could come up with some idea that all other scientists missed, or don't see the potential in, etc.
Imagine working 60+ hours every week, busting your ass intellectually, reading all available information on a topic, proposing experiments to create new knowledge (many failing ).
Then you just let your brain relax, get some morning coffee, all of that info swirling in your head, tired from the hard work and countless failures.
Then suddenly something clicks! you have a revelation that you weren't able to connect before.
It could be a new method to test your experiment or a slight change to your existing procedure. Finally, progress.... kinda.
Repeat 3 more times, and you might have a paper to publish
@@undeadprinceofchaos3731
Now for the SCP universe, imagine if what you discovered was not a new understanding of human physiology or anovel cancer drug, but something as awful as this?
This story is thought-provoking but the author doesn't reward you for your hard work of discovery, you feel horrified- like maybe you shouldn't have learned this.
It's like a modern Lovecraft story, but the added technical flair is so awesome !!
@@abrahamel-gothamy6472 I like this one for helping me wrap my head around the idea of a 4th dimension.
The writing was great!
Researcher: "Am I in trouble?"
Foundation: "Nah, D-class, you're good"
Don’t: Comment
Like: This
Oh I know. It's only for clarity
Promoted to customer
@@snorgonofborkkad
Don't: tell me
What: to do
@@snorgonofborkkad why not?
"How'd they die?"
"Brain origami"
One of the worst ways to go, even in our reality.
This scp is so good, I already had a fear of spiders and now it's even bigger and I also have been wondering about the 4th dimension for a while
Spider CAN be pretty damn creepy
And of course this isn't helped by the fact that science states that although examination of cosmic gravitational forces disproves the existence of 4D objects/entities of normal scale the existence of 4D entities on the microscopic scale (as seen in SCP-3966) is entirely impossible to confirm/disprove/observe with modern technology. *Click "read more" for other horrors*
Also there's the fact that the increase in the number of spacial dimensions could allow for an increase in the number of neuron connections meaning the minimum scale for an organism to have intelligence and sophisticated hunting methods decreases dramatically with the added dimension.
Have fun sleeping tonight ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
@@subnerdicafan2823 Actually it is known that the universe has an average curvature of .005, but we don’t know whether the curvature is positive or negative. Positive curvature would mean the universe could be huge, but negative means it’s infinite.
I already had trouble sleeping, the damn spiders don’t help....
I came to know of this way, you just slow your heart beat down through whatever means like breathing slowly. It works 100% even if you know you are going to die tomorrow or there is a heard of spiders and cockroaches in your room.
I had a friend who passed away from SUNDS years ago and it absolutely destroyed her family. To think someone can be completely healthy and normal and then overnight have something catastrophic happen that takes them in their sleep is so crazy to me. I liked this story a lot because it gives a story to something like SUNDS that really makes you wonder...
I love SCPs that involve science.
Any examples?
Why arnt you screaming curse words when i was at the big mt you wer wayyy less well calm
@@maksimpashkov7212 nice gate keeping why not just be kind
"If I have to sleep with the spiders, I will." Out of context, this sounds like a totally different kind of SCP. One that demands a certain kind of "sacrifice".
And spiders I will do, but I draw the line at dung beetles and leeches. Big enough one of those bastards will suck you dry through the main vein, if it doesn't suck _YOUR_ "leech" right the hell off...
Reminds me of SCP-1004. A disc that has all porn imaginable, and it gets crazier the more someone gets addicted to it until they kill themselves during a sex act
@@coleozaeta6344 I was thinking more of Portal 2's "Perpetual Testing Initiative", specifically where the Aperture Rituals version of Cave Johnson asked "Who's ready to make love to a giant bird?", since that's supposed to forestall the end of days in that universe.
You know your life is over when someone from the Foundation Cognito hazard Monitoring Department archives your conversation...
(edit spelling)
Hazzer huh
*I don't need sleep, I need answers.*
Finishes video, hears about 4th dimensional brain sucking spiders
*I don't need sleep.*
-Deja Vu gang. Here before this was reuploaded. I thought that was my headphones acting up lmao-
HOW
this kinda came at the perfect time because tomorrow is my first day of school and I just build a pc today and I can’t sleep and I wanted to listen to this dude I because I usually fall asleep during them, AND it’s about sleep too. big run on sentence there, but basically everything is perfect.
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@zx hey good luck bro!
Explorer: “sleeping is a thing people do every day.”
Me three days without sleep: “yes yes”
I find it funny that the SCP foundation's immediate reaction is "stick it in a D-class" and only after that do they think ''do some tests in a petri dish''
"Sleeping is something that every single human does every single day"
Quack Quack
Not me lmao.
@Stale Bagelz
Really? Do you see me often?
“Sleeping is something that every single human does every single day”
*Tired laughing*
Tired laugh.
Tired pain crumple
oh yeah never laugh on day five owww.
Even though I didnt like the story I liked the explanation at the ending saying that the remaining doctor and D-class were able to sleep with the spiders because the 4th dimensional spider webs got caught in their webs. It reminds me of something I find comforting about cellar spiders, they're known to eat other spiders, including I think a few poisonous spiders.
Paully: "Am I in trouble?"
Foundation: "You have been promoted to D."
I always enjoy scps that make everyday things into horror. One of the first I saw was 1507, the lawn flamingos that attack people. I think it helps make the scp universe feel real and means that whenever you see one of those things now you will think the classic “what if”
1507 is a comedic SCP.
1506 is a cloud of spiders that takes people and animals into it
Honestly, this is one of the coolest SCPs. I've always loved SCPs that tackle things that happened in the real world, and SCP-3966 tackled it so masterfully and in such a smart way I can't help but be in awe.
Thank you for having nice pictures in this video and not of the related SCP.
I've been hoping for this one for a while.
Video shows 12 mins ago. And u. My friend. Posted an entire day earlier. Whats up
How the hell dis you post this yesterday
Ahhh ha timetravler
Ur a time traveller
-Maybe ur a scp hhhhmmm?🤔
@@brendameistar the
I love how you don't just read the article verbatim (which in my opinion is really dull and boring but i can see some appeal to it for background noises.) and actually talks and explain about the SCP. And actually covered interesting SCP stories instead of just the famous ones. I hope many more is to come, live long and prosper, been a subscriber since the elder scrolls and middle earth lore days. :D
Hey, at least these 4th-dimensional spiders don’t attack us like homing missiles just for being aware of them!
_(Still waiting for Antimemetics Pt 2)_
Weird, barely 24 hours before this video dropped, the algorithm recommended a clip of Carl Sagan explaining Flatland and the 4th dimension.
Me at 2 Am trying to sleep for my 8 am tomorrow:
Exploring Series: Uploads
Me: Yeah I got time
Uhh..
Now you have even more time.
1: I love scifi that actually has science in it.
2: well, chronic insomnia and chronic nightmares are now even creepier. Ugh.
Please do one on SCP-2470 "the void Singularity". Thank you.✌
Eastside show has a decent reading but Exploring Series breakdowns are better than straight readings.
@@philbert85 I know what you mean! That's exactly where I first heard it too, but I just really want the exploring series to give it more.. In-depth detail?
One of the the good old scps. Honestly, the scps from at least a year ago backwards are gold, the new generation scps from the last one year are just not the same anymore. The old scps are just built different, their writers are phenomenal, and I love every single one of them. I don't watch the recent scps regularly anymore
Those jumps are really unsettling if you've ever had one. In my case it feels like either:
a. Slipping in place (like a banana peel or ice or something)
b. As if you're dangling from a suspension apparatus and it suddenly breaks, then you fall about 10-20 feet before you snap awake
“the second test was used in a petri dish, not a live human”... oh how very scp of you
I have the comic The Head is from. It's DC Vertigo "Enigma" by Peter Milligan and Duncan Fegredo. Great book about powerful reality warpers any scp fan would enjoy. The Head in particular is relevant as he greatly enjoys sucking the brains out, devouring memories like fine wine.
This is probably my favourite SCP ever- very original, very well-written, somewhat plausible (or at least not COMPLETELY unrealistic) and VERY spooky!
This was fascinating. It almost sounds like one of those things that seem like magic right now, but just might be able to be explained by science. Very very cool!
This video is on my "Cosmic Horror To Fall Asleep To" playlist.
Man I hate these dreams I have of me constantly falling
"Oh yeah those are caused by 4D dimensional spiders trying to eat your brain"
NOT HELPING
This isn’t even the first SCP to be about something slowly/steadily eating your brain while you are otherwise unaware.
A LOT of SCPs are trying to eat your brains.
The moment you said "polypeptide" I knew what was coming and I got Scared
Also thank you for using generic scenery. I would have cried otherwise ;△;
Its that time again. Its [REDACTED] Hours now bois
Time to get [REDACTED]
SCP about unsettling dreams.
No thank you, just fixed my sleeping schedule very recently.
So skipped till I can handle a one time sleepless night.
Ironic that you always upload these as I’m about to go to sleep
Alright it's almost time to sleep, hopefully this scp video won't keep me up at night.
24 seconds in: Every human sleeps
Me: fuuuuuk
Funny how this is about dying in your sleep
Bruh same LMFAO
Even more ironic with the fact this SCP involves sleep in some degree
That’s not ironic, it’s coincidental.
TES should cover SCP-5989 (I'm exactly where I need to be), it's an interesting and rather sad story, with an interesting mystery
Taking the train to a new chapter of my life and this video comes out! Thanks it’ll keep me company, can’t wait to hear it
Good luck!
@@stevus23 what if the new chapter of their life is moving to a secret terrorist organisation to develop a potent biochemical weapon that makes your skin turn inside out?
Dangerous to be throwing out these good-lucks all willy nilly 🤔
@@swine13 dear God you're right!!! I retract previous statement
Sleeping is something a typical human does every single day
College students: see that's where you're wrong
its funny how this is one of my favorite scp to spite my severe arachnophobia
Yeah a TYPICAL person sleeps for hours...
Like Really imagine sleeping lmao
What is this "sleep" you speak of?
Thank for this! This Scip caught my attention when I first read it. I kinda understand the gist of the article but the huge amount of scientific language made me think I've missed something. Thank you for filling out that gap in our knowledge. This is now my newest Fave Scip.
I'm sitting here at 2 am, puking my guts out, and I see you post. Thank you so much, you're a gift from an angel
Woah, me to! Well, i just had a bad gag reflex going on for a bit but no actual puking, but it gets close sometimes after coughing. i hate that.
Do you guys work-out? I remember having the exact same thing back when I ate alot of bread/pasta/potatoes(heavy carbs) and I didnt work-out. After I stopped eating that, and started working out, it immediately ceased.
@@Jack-yq6ui Im just getting over a cold and got a cough that I get about every time at this year. I have a sensitive gag reflex or stumic? (not related to swallowing food, idk, its wierd) so coughing easily triggers it. x_x Im not a heavy carb eater so I dont think thats it, but thanks, will have to keep that in mind
hey me too
Dude! I read this one years ago and it's been a favorite ever since, but nobody ever talks about it. Thanks for covering this one.
Damn, Exploring did some extra hours
This guys voice and these scp stories help me sleep
Eight legged horrors above are world. Feeding on our minds, preying on us while we dream. A horror that we can only escape from when we’re outside of our nocturnal haven.
“Nocturnal haven” really bruh
You should’ve used “our” every time, no “are”. One lame prince of chaos. And yeah, nocturnal haven is cringe
Finally, I've gone through your whole SCP video list...I need more man. Keep up the solid work
0:10 what sleep you assume I sleep
Using Flatland to explain higher dimensions is like using a single picture to explain the flow of time. It would make sense to use a plane 1 atom thick and its interaction with more complex structures, but 2 dimensional objects can't exist in 3 dimensional space.
Posted 1 minute ago
Me: Dang, Im late. : (
Btw Great Video as Always :) these always make my day
They make a lot of people's day.
Whoa, now that is a creative concept. I love SCPs that exist as a sort of real world explanation for something misunderstood. Really fascinating.
Me at 2 AM: I really need to sleep.
Me at time of upload: Nevermind, twenty more minutes won't hurt.
Me at end of video: You know what? I don't need sleep.
Never: Comment
Like: This
SnorgonOfBorkkad would it be so difficult to just leave me alone.
Would it be so difficult to just write nothing.
You write words but change nothing.
So keep doing just that.
Thank you for doing these so regularly. It really helps make it through my Mondays.
Now time for my nightly SCP bedtime story.
😴
And it's about sleep too.
"SPIDER! SPIDER! SPIDER!'
Was Patrick having a hypnic jerk?
They were trying to take his box
Watching an scp video when I SHOULD be sleeping lol
(3:19 am)
You don't need sleep now. Thank the 4th dimensional spiders for that.
I fucking love creative SCPs like this
"Fantasy landscape to take your mind off the creepy SCP"
But what else would we be here to listen you talk about the horrors of the foundation at 3am in the morning!?
“And the image received of this fourth dimensional protein resembles an insect”
Me: uh oh, a cicada?
“An arachnid”
Me: oh thank god
This is the only RUclipsr where I'm lime "Thank you for uploading late at night"
I jerk awake usually 2-3 times a night. Doctors can’t explain why and pills don’t help me fall asleep only make me sleep longer in the morning.
So thank you so much for this one.
Why? Did it fix the problem?
A small but crucial bit of praise: thank you for not having the last word in this video (or any other I can think of) be something like “right?”
I can’t imagine something more trite and hacky than that.
All I ask is that you just keep it up.
It does make you wonder if 3966 and 848 are some kind of natural enemies or distant cousins.
Like one moved to explore the 4th dimension, while another tried to make dimensional anchors. Maybe both in response to some other dimensional event.
Polly: “Am I in trouble?”
The foundation: “Nah, man. You’re just gonna be a D-boi now. Nothing personal lol”
Mom get up, TES uploaded!
listening to this after finishing a Macbeth audiodrama:
"Methought I heard a voice cry, “Sleep no more!
Macbeth does murder sleep”-the innocent sleep,
Sleep that knits up the raveled sleave of care,
The death of each day’s life, sore labor’s bath,
Balm of hurt minds, great nature’s second course,
Chief nourisher in life’s feast."
This video is fun because this channel is how I get to sleep. Much soothing
We sleepin’ good tonight boys
*TES saving the day from my eternal boredom*
2 O'clock central? Come on man, you slacking. 4:05 am on a Thursday is the only acceptable time to upload late.
Just came home from my first day of senior year. Everything is messy and unorganized, but at least I got this present when I clicked on RUclips. Thanks a lot for your videos, they're extremely calming
For a second I thought this was a real scp because I sometimes feel like I am falling when sleeping
The majority of SCPs are based off of real life things, some SCPs, though, are created to give an explanation for some things that we don't know much about
These are the best SCPs taking something easily relatable and making it strange
Last time I was this early I caught my boyfriend cheating.
Hey welcome in the gang
Sorry about that btw
good one.
"Sleeping is something a typical human dies every single day."
Riiiiiiiiiiiight
Sure buddy, sure
I always read comments before I watch these videos. Glad I did. I will watch this in the morning when I wake up.
Great video! Been wondering about this one for ages bruh
Dang I literally was just feeling like I needed an scp vid and there it was
I love the format for your videos. It's super intriguing and relaxing. Keep it up man👍
You upload more than the Volgun nowadays, love your work
There are two videos I look forward to you eventually covering. One covering the Department of Abnormalities, and the one covering the SCP I’m writing.
You should definitely do a video going over some of the k class scenarios. Especially because you don't just read word for word off of the wiki so your take would be amazing
Just came back from school to this treat hell yeah