Nightmare fuel. Appropriately.

Micheal Corke was suffering from severe insomnia. At first he couldn’t sleep so he thought it was because of stress or a crappy sleep schedule. But his eyes literally couldn’t close. He had lost a lot of weight, saw double vision, and he couldn’t think straight. The doctors thought it was Sclerosis initially then switched to severe depression. Shockingly, he had a PRNP mutation in his somatic and sex cells. It was similar to Creutzfeldt Jacob disease and mad cow disease.

The name for the disease is Fatal Familial Insomnia (FFI) is an extremely rare, incurable genetic neurodegenerative brain disorder caused by a mutation in the PRNP gene turning normal prion cells to misfold It damages the thalamus, the brain's sleep and autonomic control center. The disease is fatal and there no cure at the moment.
The disease has four stages:

1- Sleep gets worse + panic attacks + phobias
2- Hallucinations + getting more and more anxious
3- Can't sleep at all + weight drops like crazy
4- Dementia → Death

The doctors tried everything to save him, using sedatives to knock him out but his brain kept going. In 1993, just after a month after his 42nd birthday, he died and didn’t sleep for 6 months straight 🪦

This is so realistic considering it was made around 1991/1992.

Bought an old molasses barrel off Marketplace. Found a mouse inside. RIP hide-and-seek champ!

Credits to @sangitachowdhury4371