They say that a person can only live 10-11 days without sleep.. But there are exceptions to this rule.. There are several dozen people in the world who do not sleep for years and even decades. Among them are a Vietnamese farmer, a British teacher and a resident of Minsk. For some of them, insomnia has become a curse, and someone almost does not suffer from a strange illness, according to the online publication for girls and women from 14 to 35 years old Pannochka. net Disorder of the nervous system, leading to a complete lack of sleep, doctors call colitis.

Ordinary people feel discomfort, doing without sleep even a day or two. The mood deteriorates, at times they become dull or, on the contrary, painfully sharpen their eyesight and hearing, their working capacity drops catastrophically. Without coffee and other stimulants, it becomes impossible to concentrate. This state was experienced by every student preparing for the session.. On the third or fifth sleepless day, more serious problems begin: hallucinations, waking nightmares, quite serious depression may develop. Not a single doctor will recommend to put on such experiments..

However, in nature there is a rare ailment that refutes all medical laws - lifelong insomnia, or, scientifically, roaming. Throughout the history of medicine, its isolated cases have been known..

In the 1940s-1950s, an old man named Al Harpin lived in New Jersey.. The old man was about 90 years old, and he was practically a beggar. Homeless people like him huddled in huts made of leaves and tree branches.. Al built the same one for himself, only in his haven there was nothing like a bed or a couch. He simply did not need these items: as far as he could remember, Al Harpin could not sleep. He just didn't need it.. There were legends about the wonderful old man, and doctors began to visit his hut. None of them could figure out what the secret of Harpin was, who really didn't sleep.. For several hours he rested sitting or lying down - and thus restored his strength. The old man himself innocently believed that he acquired his peculiarity even before birth: his mother told him that during pregnancy she hit her stomach hard.

An American newspaper of the late 19th century published the following note:. " The author of the note said that the surprised doctors established round-the-clock surveillance for Jones and made sure that the man really did not sleep.. According to others, David did not complain and did not seem to experience any discomfort - on the contrary, in his free time, he willingly took care of his farm. He also could not find any reasons for his condition - except that he told the doctors that he smoked a lot in his youth.. In the end the doctors just left him alone.

Unfortunately, not everyone takes colitis as easily as the American tramp Harpin and Farmer Jones.. For 40-year-old teacher Joanna Moore, lack of sleep has become a curse.. On the evening of 1962, she returned home from the school where she was working at the time.. Joan is tired for the day. She felt sleepy, yawned... and then something happened that neither the woman herself nor the doctors can still explain. Joan says that at that moment she saw her dead mother in reality, and then in her head it was like "

Miss Moore did not sleep that night or the next.. She never slept again. Unfortunately, having managed to survive without sleep, she feels terrible.. Joanna says that the desire to sleep now overcomes her day and night. She constantly feels weak and tired, but she cannot fall asleep, no matter how hard she tries.. No sleeping pills or sedatives could help her.. The doctors who examined Joanna Moore concluded that part of her brain was affected.. Oddly enough, according to other medical indicators, Joan's health is normal.. But psychologically, every sleepless night becomes a test for her.. “In silence and emptiness, I feel like the only living person on the whole Earth,” she complains..

Vietnamese Thai Ngoc does not sleep for the 39th year in a row. Colestitis struck him after suffering a fever. For many years the Vietnamese remained healthy and efficient. But in an interview in 2006, Tai admitted that the lack of sleep made him feel "

Tai Ngoc's compatriot, the peasant Nguyen Van Kha, has been keeping his eyes open for a little less - for 27 years. According to Nguyen, the last time he slept properly was in 1979.. Then something strange began to happen to them.. One evening, while closing his eyes, Kha felt a strong burning sensation under his eyelids, and an image of a blazing fire arose in his mind.. Since then, this has happened every time I try to doze off, and Wan Kha has been unable to sleep.. What's more, he didn't close his eyes at all.. Over the past years, the phenomenon of a sleepless Vietnamese has not found a scientific explanation.. On the recommendations of various doctors, Kha tried a large number of different European medicines and Oriental medicines, but all was in vain..

Fortunately, Kha, according to him, feels quite well and does not suffer from his bizarre ailment in any way..

One of the most famous " At the age of 26, he experienced clinical death. According to some reports, the jealous wife tried to poison him by adding something to the wine.. The man became ill, he was taken away by ambulance. Doctors literally " True, he returned a different person..

Jacob came to his senses for a long time, learned to talk again, corresponded with others on a piece of paper. But amazing changes took place with his body: the young man felt an amazing surge of strength.. He was visited by fresh thoughts and ideas, some of which were clothed in poetic form - although Tseperovich had never written poetry before..

The weirdness didn't end there.. Finally returning to normal life, Jacob found that he had lost the ability to sleep.. At first it was a huge pain.. I really wanted to sleep, as happens during ordinary insomnia, but the man could not fall asleep. When trying to lie down, Yakov heard some kind of click in his head, and, according to his own description, felt as if some third-party force was forcing him to sit up in bed. " - The constant struggle for the opportunity to forget even for a moment in a dream..

After some time, a turning point came: Jacob's body, apparently, learned to do without sleep.. Physical strength began to arrive as if by magic: Yakov, without any fatigue, could do push-ups for hours, lift weights. The most interesting thing is that, according to eyewitnesses, Tseperovich stopped aging. Photos in which he is 40-43 years old are indistinguishable from pictures taken at 25-26 years old.

" - I do not feel the past years. It feels like the same day lasts endlessly without breaks and gaps.. I feel like my life will go on forever."

Doctors soon became interested in his condition.. They established that the man was indeed awake and found that his body temperature did not rise above 34 degrees.. No other pathologies or changes were found in his body.. Now Yakov Tseperovich lives with his second wife, they have a son.

In order to temporarily "

Despite his seemingly excellent health, Yakov yearns for the lost opportunity to sleep and does not consider the freed night hours a " “Oddly enough, I don’t use this time in any way,” he once said. - The Lord gave me life, and I just live. In addition, understand, for me this is not extra time, but just the usual time that every person has, and I fill it with ordinary things.. Of course, at night you will not do noisy business when everyone around is sleeping.. Therefore, at this time I read, write, think"

“I still want to become a normal person who can sleep,” Tseperovich admits..

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