Seventeen year-old, Nicole Delien, has a sleep disorder by the name of sleeping beauty disorder. She literally lives her life in a dream. She sleeps about 18 to 19 hours a day and once had a sleeping episode that lasted 64 days! She would only wake up to eat and go to the bathroom and go right back to sleep, without even knowing she woke up. She takes medication, but it only helps space out her sleeping episodes and is always unsure of when they will come. Because of her disease she has missed out many important things in her life including annual family holidays like Christmas.
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In addition to excessive sleeping, symptoms include disorientation, hallucination, child-like behaviour, binge-eating and periods of hyper-sexuality when awake, according to an Oxford Journals report.
That report says the disorder predominately affects young males.
The cause of Kleine-Levin Syndrome is unknown, both medical sources indicate.
