A resident of the British city of Nottingham Jessica Southall (Jessica Southall) would like to be the heroine of one of the Russian fairy tales - Princess Nesmeyanoy, because for her laughter, unlike normal people, is not health and joy, but a real punishment.
The fact is that Jessica suffers from a rare disease, the so-called essential narcolepsy. This ailment manifests itself in the fact that any strong emotion forces the patient's muscles to relax, after which he almost instantly falls asleep. Therefore, as soon as a woman laughs, the next moment, she is already asleep. This happens, however, in many other cases, when Jessica has strong feelings, for example, is angry, worried about intimacy with a man, and so on.
For the first time, the disease began to manifest itself in her as a teenager, when teachers began to complain to Jessica's parents that the child was constantly sleeping in the classroom, or even during recess: why does he not get enough sleep? Jessica Southall had to go through a lot of doctors and all kinds of tests before she was diagnosed with such a sad diagnosis - she is terminally ill.
Essential narcolepsy is a rare disease of the nervous system, it is believed that it leads to uncontrolled falling asleep in a person suffering from this disease, and this is very dangerous for the patient himself and those around him.
Jessica claims that she rarely completely falls asleep at the moment of an attack, her mind is most often awake at this time, but her body becomes completely uncontrollable, all muscles are so relaxed that from the outside it seems that she is sleeping soundly. True, this state is not much different from paralysis in a dream, a woman can only hear her surroundings, but she can neither open her eyes nor move. A real sleeping beauty from the book of the French storyteller Charles Perrault …