The word "sleeper" has several meanings. This is the name for a car with certain technical characteristics, fashionable shoes, and even a person with supernatural abilities. Let's consider each option in more detail.
Car - sleeper
Sleeper is initially a simple car, but with improved technical characteristics. For clarity: imagine the old "Zhiguli" of the sixth model, which accelerate to hundreds of kilometers per hour in a few seconds.
Making a sleeper out of a car is the dream of many car owners. To do this, you need to increase the engine within reasonable limits, install a turbocharger and an appropriate gearbox.
Such conversions are enough for fast driving on a good straight road.
If the owner wants to take turns without slowing down, he will have to invest heavily in professional brakes, a sports suspension and a roll cage. However, remember that in many countries such tuning is illegal.
As for Russia, VAZ cars with front-wheel drive are most often used as the basis for sleepers.
Usually, the owners of sleepers are divided into two types:
- lovers of powerful cars without unnecessary external "tinsel";
- street racers or street racing fans.
At the request of the buyer, the car factory can turn an ordinary car into a sleeper. The most famous factory slippers are Mitsubishi Galant VR-4, Hyundai Sonata Turbo, Subaru Forester 2.5XT, Mazda 6 MPS.
Fashion Shoes - Sleepers
Sleepers are semi-closed (women's or men's) shoes with low and flat soles, sometimes there are models with low heels. These shoes have no clasps, no buckles, no laces.
The main advantage of the sleepers is the tremendous comfort and convenience to wear.
They are sewn from leather, velvet, suede, textiles or straw. Sleepers are often decorated with embroidery, perforation, spikes, tassels and other prints.
Translated from English, slippers are slippers. Previously, they really were exclusively home shoes in aristocratic and wealthy English families.
Most often they were worn by men. For example, Prince Albert wore velvet slippers with gold embroidery and silk lining. Sleepers were Winston Churchill's favorite shoes, he wore them with a silk robe.
However, over time, fashion trends have changed and in the 60s of the last century, sleepers began to be worn outside the home in combination with light trousers and shirts.
Now both men and women wear sleepers with pleasure. It is convenient to go to work, walk, study or shopping in them.
Who is a sleeper
The term sleeper is also called a person who has the supernatural ability to penetrate into other people's thoughts and read them. Such people are also called sensitive operators or parapsychologists.
In a state of special trance, the sleeper is able to penetrate into the most distant parts of the memory and find information that sometimes even the subject himself does not remember. At the same time, the installed "walls" and memory blockers do not interfere with a strong sleeper.
For example, the subject took a glimpse of a beautiful building while walking. Sleeper, having penetrated into the subconscious of an object, can describe with great accuracy both architecture and small details of the structure (the part that was previously in the field of view of a person).
There are legends about sleepers who work in secret organizations and practice the coding of people. For example, a person can be coded for any action, even illegal.
Unlike hypnosis, the encoding is very tough and is often done with the help of narcotic substances. As with hypnosis, a sleeper needs a start point and an end point: a word, code, or phrase that acts as a trigger.
However, there are sleepers that can penetrate the brain of an encoded object and remove the encoding. Some sensitives can replace some of the object's memories with others needed by the customer.
Secret units "hunt" for people with supernatural abilities. Working in intelligence agencies, sleepers learn to control and manage their abilities.
Sleepers are born in simple families and the reason for their gift has not yet been studied. Such people are often withdrawn, prone to severe headaches and even seizures similar to epilepsy. The life expectancy of these amazing people is short, few of them live to old age.
The sleeper was first used by the German secret services in 1943. As a result, he was captured by British troops in October 1944.
In Russia, at the beginning of the last century, a secret laboratory for the study of human superpowers was created under the leadership of Alexander Barchenko. In the USSR, research in this direction was carried out by such scientists as V. I. Vernadsky and A. L. Chizhevsky. After the end of the Great Patriotic War, huge resources were allocated for the study of parapsychology.
The activities and even the existence of such people are kept secret, since their abilities are not fully understood, they are not always controllable and can harm both the sleeper himself and the people around him.