Unbelievably a British Tenn, 15-year-old Stacey Comerford, fell asleep in April and awoke in May.
The Sun reports on the case of Stacey Comerford, a teenage girl who’s afflicted with what’s known as ‘Kleine-Levin Syndrome’, or Sleeping Beauty Syndrome. People with the condition have “episodes” where they sleep for as long as 20 hours a day for periods of time, according to the National Institutes of Health.
Comerford’s case is a touch extreme, as she sometimes sleeps months at a time’ “When she’s in an episode, she might get up to go to the toilet or get a drink but she’s not awake. I call it sleep mode,” Comerford’s mother, Bernie, told The Sun, adding that she feeds her when she’s in this trance-like state. “When she wakes, she thinks it’s the following day. She doesn’t have any memory of it.”
Stanford University’s Center for Narcolepsy reported that Kleine-Levin Syndrome is actually a kind of rare sleep disorder that usually affects teens and rarely carries on to adulthood.
