Tuesday, November 27, 2012

'Sleeping Beauty' snoozes for 64 days

A Pennsylvania teenager slept for 64 days from Thanksgiving into January -- her longest sleeping episode yet.

Nicole Delien, 17, struggles with a rare sleep disorder called Kleine-Levine, or 'Sleeping Beauty Syndrome'.

During her sleep spells she will wake up in a confused state for small periods of time to eat and go to the bathroom and then fall back to sleep.

Nicole's mother, Vicki, says her daughter will sleep 18 to 19 hours a day, and when she eventually wakes up to eat she is in a 'sleepwalking state which she doesn't remember', KDKA in Pittsburgh recently reported.

Read the full story here...

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