Sunday, January 24, 2010


i switched on my television and watched a scary documentary. No, it isn't about ghosts or monsters. It isn't about destruction or hell. Neither is it about the world running out of cheese and everyone being forced to eat terrible lasagne for the rest of their lives. This documentary was about insomnia. Insomnia that was fatal.

Fatal insomnia is a genetic sleep disorder that strikes during middle age and results in death, as the name suggests. Throughout the show, there were many footages of a man who couldn't sleep. I'm unable to recall his name, but I do know that he passed away because of his disorder.

Based on what i know about fatal insomnia, there are a things that the 'victim' undergoes. First, he just couldn't sleep. It started off slow, with him having trouble sleeping. However, his condition became worse and eventually he couldn't sleep at all. It was stated that he did sleep, but he dreamt. That showed that his brain wasn't resting and could not recover from exhaustion.

Later into the last months of his life, he went mad. He literally went crazy. The doctor interviewed described him as a body with no soul controlling it. That was scary. Really scary. The man had absolutely no control over his body.

Lastly, he died. He died because he lacked of REM sleep( I'm not sure what it stands for but i do know it's simply called deep sleep). This may not seem frightening but it really was when I watched it.

Now we all know how important sleep is to us, let's appreciate the fact that we can sleep.

Got to go catch some sleep now.

skyzone// 3:21 AM