@thescarecast: In 1993, 42‑year‑old Chicago music teacher Michael Corke developed a rare brain disease called fatal insomnia that slowly stripped away his ability to sleep. Over the course of about six months, he became almost completely unable to sleep at all, as his mind and body deteriorated in front of doctors who had no idea how to save him. Only later was his condition recognized as a form of fatal familial insomnia, a prion disease that attacks the thalamus—the part of the brain that controls the sleep‑wake cycle—and is always deadly. Michael’s horrifying decline would go on to be featured in the BBC documentary “The Man Who Never Slept,” cementing his story as one of the most disturbing real‑life nightmares in medical history. #nightmare #insomnia #sleep #strange #truestories

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