Thai Ngoc or Hai Ngoc (born 1942) is a Vietnamese insomniac. According
to Vietnamese news organization Thanh Nien, he is best known for his
claim of being awake for 33 years. Thanh Nien also claimed that Ngoc
acquired the ability to go without sleep after a bout of fever in 1973,
but according to the Vietnam Investment Review, there was no apparent
cause.
"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.
Source :- http://www.unbelievableinfo.com/2013/12/the-man-who-doesnt-sleep-for-33-years.html
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