A bloke who claims to have hardly slept a wink since the early 1960s has baffled doctors.
Thai Ngoc, a farmer from a small village in south Vietnam, says that when his neighbours go to bed for the night, he goes back out into the fields and carries on working.
Ngoc, 80, told documentary-maker Drew Binsky that he last had a full night’s sleep in 1962. He would love to be able to sleep like everyone else, but he’s just lost the ability. “It’s frustrating and exasperating,” he said.
“Seeing others sleep, I envy them. On moonlit nights, I usually go out to weed and till the soil because sitting still is unbearable. It’s strange that I work twice as much as others, yet my life is still not that prosperous.”
