The Girl Who Traded Sleep for Stars
She stopped dreaming — and started remembering other lives.
At 16, Lila Beaumont developed fatal insomnia. Desperate, doctors tried experimental treatments, but Lila insisted she wasn’t tired — “sleep just isn’t mine anymore.”
Her journals describe strange visions: living in other bodies, in other centuries, under skies with unfamiliar constellations. She claimed she was being “loaned out” to different versions of herself.
On her last night alive, nurses found her window open, her body gone — but her voice recorded on the sleep monitor whispering:
“Someone else is waking up now.”
Astronomers later noted a new star appearing in her hometown’s sky — pulsing faintly, like a heartbeat.
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