An octogenarian has claimed that since his birth, he only slept for the first twenty years of his life and that in the remaining past sixty years, he has been awake every single second; not even a nap.
According to Thai Ngoc, a farmer in Vietnam, it all started when he suffered a fever as a young man and after he survived, then the extraordinary insomnia set in and he has lived with it for the past six decades and counting.
Despite being awake constantly for decades, the elderly farmer says it has not affected his health in any way, and that he is able to live and work normally like every other person.
The family, including his wife, children, friends, and neighbours of Ngoc who was born in 1942, are reported to have testified to his claim, saying they have never seen him sleep.
Vietnamese website Thahn Nien News, reports him as having said that he had a severe fever at age 20, and even though he survived, he could not sleep again after. He added that he had used various medications, traditional folk remedies, and even ample quantities of alcohol, all in a bid to get sleepy but to no avail. He said he initially thought that the post-fever insomnia was just temporary, but he was wrong; it has lasted for six long decades and still, there is no end in sight.
“I don’t know if the insomnia has impacted my health or not, but I’m still healthy and I can do the farm work normally like others,” Thahn Nien News quotes Ngoc as saying.
Meanwhile, Dr Vikas Wadhwa at Sleep Services Australia is reported to have said that some insomniacs are unable to tell the difference between being awake and being asleep. According to the official, Ngoc might have been sleeping all these six decades without knowing.
Interestingly, he has not allowed sleep scientists to observe or test him to come to a scientific conclusion about his alleged condition.
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