Sixty-four-year-old Thai Ngoc, known as Hai Ngoc, said he could not sleep at night after getting a fever in 1973, and has counted infinite numbers of sheep during more than 11,700 consecutive sleepless nights. "I don't know whether the insomnia has impacted my health or not. But I'm still healthy and can farm normally like others," Ngoc said. Proving his health, the elderly resident of Que Trung commune, Que Son district said he can carry two 50kg bags of fertilizer down 4km of road to return home every day.
His wife said, "My husband used to sleep well, but these days, even liquor cannot put him down." She said when Ngoc went to Da Nang for a medical examination, doctors gave him a clean bill of health, except a minor decline in liver function. Ngoc currently lives on his 5ha farm at the foot of a mountain busy with farming and taking care of pigs and chickens all day. His six children live at their house in Que Trung. Ngoc often does extra farm work or guards his farm at night to prevent theft, saying he used three months of sleepless nights to dig two large ponds to raise fish.
Sanju Bhagat's stomach was once so swollen he looked nine months pregnant and could barely breathe. iving in the city of Nagpur, India, Bhagat said he'd felt self-conscious his whole life about his big belly. But one night in June 1999, his problem erupted into something much larger than cosmetic worry. Mehta said that he can usually spot a tumor just after he begins an operation. But while operating on Bhagat, Mehta saw something he had never encountered. As he cut deeper into Bhagat's stomach, gallons of fluid spilled out — and then something extraordinary happened. "First, one limb came out, then another limb came out. Then some part of genitalia, then some part of hair, some limbs, jaws, limbs, hair."
At first glance, it may look as if Bhagat had given birth. Actually, Mehta had removed the mutated body of Bhagat's twin brother from his stomach. Bhagat, they discovered, had one of the world's most bizarre medical conditions — fetus in fetu. It is an extremely rare abnormality that occurs when a fetus gets trapped inside its twin. The trapped fetus can survive as a parasite even past birth by forming an umbilical cordlike structure that leaches its twin's blood supply until it grows so large that it starts to harm the host, at which point doctors usually intervene.
Shoichi Yokoi was a soldier, conscripted into the Imperial Japanese Army in 1941 and sent to Guam shortly thereafter. In 1944, as American forces reconquered the island, Yokoi went into hiding.
On January 24, 1972, Yokoi was discovered in a remote section of Guam by two of the island's inhabitants. For 28 years he had been hiding in an underground jungle cave, fearing to come out of hiding even after finding leaflets declaring that World War II had ended. "It is with much embarrassment that I have returned alive," he said upon his return to Japan, carrying his rusted rifle at his side.
Lal Bihari (born 1961) is a farmer from Uttar Pradesh, India who was officially dead from 1976 to 1994. He founded Mritak Sangh or the Association of the Dead in Uttar Pradesh, India. He fought Indian government bureaucracy for 18 years to prove that he is alive.
When Lal Bihari tried to apply for a bank loan in 1976, he found out that he was officially dead. His uncle had bribed a government official to register him as dead so he would get the ownership of Bihari's land.
Bihari discovered at least 100 other people in a similar situation, being officially dead. He formed Mritak Sangh in the Azamgarh district. He and many other members were in danger of being killed by those who had appropriated their property. Nowadays the association has over 20,000 members all over India. By 2004 they had managed to declare four of their members alive. In 2004 he ran for a seat in the parliament of Lal Ganj.
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Is the first one real? I'd think that without the vital rest your body takes while you sleep you wouldn't be able to function normally. I could see not sleeping for a few weeks, but even then I don't think that anybody would be able to do much besides sit around and try not to pass out.
The world record for going without sleep is about 11 days...so I doubt that the first guy went 30 years without sleeping
there is the fact that the body would shut down without the nessecary sleep but consider that young boy in india who is supposed to have sat under a tree for years with nothing at all to sustain him.they say he was undertaking some kind of extreme miditation.possible i dont know but just maybe stranger things have happened at sea!
Actully what is stated before is incorrect. The body can survive without sleep. There is no proven beneficial evidence to suggest that humans need sleep to survive and scientists are still not sure of why it is genetically within us that the body makes us feel tired and fall asleep. There has been no concrete reason, no idea e.g. suggesting that sleep is needed for reproduction of cells or something along those lines, it was just an evolutionary trait that kept with us after thousands of years. Sleep is not critical for survival.
Sleep i needed for a health immune system, without sleep for only a week leads to hallucination's and paranoia, no one can survive 30 years without it.
Buddhist monks are frequently known to go without sleep. Here's a short example:
http://www.missionrk.com/literature/Dawn/Jan7/story.htm
A human can not go more than 4 days without sleep before they die. Sure, he may 'think' he hasn't slept, but the body corrects itself with what is called 'microsleeps' or 'micronaps' where, for brief instants, the mind is actually asleep.
I read about this in an issue of Men's Health, where the author writes about his attempt to go a week without sleep under careful watch of doctors while wired up the gazoo with sensors glued to his brain, to pick up all sorts of electrical signals being shot around in his mind. This is when they found that even though he seemed awake, in the time it takes to blink, you fall asleep and wake up again.
He ended the article with a very insightful thought, saying he was going to drive home...on second thought, he'd call a cab.
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