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Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatal_insomnia#:~:text=Fatal%20insomnia%20is%20an%20extremely,months%20to%20a%20few%20years
TIL that there is a condition called fatal insomnia where people one day can no longer fall asleep, and eventually die due to this lack of sleep.
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Thanks for posting this. I was running out of ideas to fuel my insomnia.
Me seeing this as someone with chronic insomnia whose brain is almost never tired😬😬😬😬😬
Can’t you be put to sleep medically?
Read that as fetal insomnia, which somehow was even worse.
Holy shit
Well now I know how I’m going to die.
I learned about this last year and read a bunch of papers on it. It’s very interesting. Apparently the cause of death is brain damage, but it’s unclear if the damage is caused by the lack of sleep or if the lack of sleep is due to brain damage. Either way it looks like an awful way to go, and the average prognosis is like 1 year. [I read about this guy that lasted 2 years, but apparently he was the exception.](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1781276/)
The real sad part is you can get tested for FFI, if you’re from one of the families, long before you get the symptoms. So you can end up knowing exactly how and pretty much when you’ll die.
In the book “Why We Sleep” by Matthew Walker this process is described and it’s terrifying.
For the restless I guess.