Ideal candidate for coffee advertising. I haven't slept for 40 years. Have you ever heard of Paul Kern?
This Hungarian soldier was a completely ordinary person, who did not stand out from everyone else. Paul Kern was drafted into the Austro-Hungarian troops in the First World War as a cadet. During one of the battles of 1914 as part of the shock troops, he showed courage, for which he was awarded a medal. A year later, he was transferred to another company, in which he fought against the Russian troops. During one of these battles, a Russian soldier shot Kern in the head, he was seriously wounded and was sent to the Lemberg hospital. The bullet went through Paul's head right in the temple area and destroyed part of the frontal lobe of the brain.
The Hungarian should have died, but still survived - and stopped sleeping forever.
Waking up in the hospital, Kern could no longer fall asleep. As it turned out, the bullet hit the temple and destroyed part of the frontal lobe of the brain. Usually such a wound was fatal, but Paul managed to survive. His problem was dealt with by Dr. Frey, a professor at the University of Budapest, but he could not help Kern return to his old way of life.
Paul Kern became a real headache for medicine in the 20th century. After the unfortunate trauma, he not only forgot about sleep, but also stopped feeling pain in principle, and also lost the feelings of exhaustion and fatigue. The bullet destroyed part of Kern's nervous system. Until the end of his life, he was a very active person, he worked in an organization to help retirees and died in 1955, never falling asleep for 40 years. Kern's story is an inexplicable and therefore even more surprising paradox.
It is a pity that this is all the information about such an interesting person. I would like to know what he did and how he lived these 40 years. By the way, do not confuse a fascist doctor with a complete pervert.
Another famous case of long wakefulness.
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Ngoc Thai, a positive Vietnamese peasant, has not slept since 1973. He was born in 1942 and was a completely healthy and ordinary child, and since 1973 he stopped sleeping.
As Ngoc Thay himself says, the dream disappeared after suffering an attack of fever, and since then did not sleep a day. Thay admits that he has no health problems, but "feels like a plant without water." The fact is on the face - he just does not sleep. At first it was difficult for him, and irritability manifested itself, then, apparently, the brain adapted and resigned itself to the new rhythm of work.
This is a truly unique case, because a person cannot live without sleep, as well as without food. The inability to switch the brain to delta and theta rhythms creates the effect of hallucinations, from which one can easily go crazy. By the way, in ancient times, not letting a person sleep was considered a very cruel torture.
Ngoc Thai managed to use his either a gift or a curse to his advantage and works even at night, while everyone is safely resting. Due to the double load, his farm is in excellent condition, which he has been doing all his adult life. He is married and has four children, all of whom are healthy and sleeping well.
In fact, history has about two to three dozen such cases. And these are only known and registered ones. For unknown reasons, people simply stop sleeping and do not get tired or die from lack of sleep.
Have you ever met such people?