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Sleepless Man

Sixty Years of No Sleep

By Mlu BindaPublished 3 years ago 3 min read

About a year ago I heard about a man He claims he hasn't slept since 1962. His name was Tai Nope and he lived Somewhere in South Vietnam. Now I'm on a mission to track him down and see if it's true that he won't sleep.I just arrived at Danang airport in Vietnam. I am like that Excited to go meet my guide named Hui. I printed a paper called his Thai No. After asking some local residents. I called someone else The local guy and he told me he Outside lives in a blue house I rode a motorcycle because of the city He crossed the field to find him.We made it. We found the house in the picture. And we found our man enjoying the day smoking inside the house. He is now about 80 years old and wants to sleep. The last time you slept was a long time ago. I want to find out if what he says is true Haven't slept in over 60 years.You slept well before the war. At what point did you Stop sleeping? During the war I slept and then I was idle for a day Stopped sleeping. Do you know why you can't sleep? I do not know. I even went to the hospital. What did they say at the hospital? They don't know.I also drink a shot of rice wine Every 30 minutes every 20 minutes here Another one is coming. It is a little strange that only Mr. Knope was taken However, drinking three meals a day Never stopped. Mr. Knope keeps inviting me Go to his house, which I understand to be him Talking about another house He lived during the war in the 1960s When his sleepless nights began.So you have many jobs as a rice wine maker You are a farmer as well as working 24/7. How much wine do you make? Drink in one day? He's like a bottle of yes. I am really surprised who fought PTSD has something to do with his condition.I want to stay awake with you Night and do whatever you do. Rice wine tonight Vietnamese wine? yes yes yes I really want to know what he is doing night time What is your favorite restaurant here? I'll take you my treat tonight, did you drink coffee Only rice wine is never coffee.Maybe if he drinks a lot Rice wine, he will sleep, a lot of wine. Yeah yeah right, when he drinks a lot He sleeps 1 litre or something A little, an hour or two hours. Ok so, I have now uncovered one clue that he is sleeping If he drinks a lot of wine litres yes but it's a thought stop Going into the head, he sleeps for an hour or two hours later to normal.We sit here and eat a communal meal, only he has Like one bite so I start taking He is afraid that he will not eat. And so it went as the night wore on Making rice wine. I don't know why you try to put me to sleep though Trying to stay awake with him I saw him lying on the ground He thought he would close his eyes They are open later He sat again for five minutes Then he sits here on the side The man in the bed does not sleep It is now 4:41 and my friend Hui is there It was just me and my husband who fell asleep No, I don't know what he will do now He is still out there making a fire in the rain.Update - It's 5:39 am Sun Coming out, ah I made it clear He made it. He was off there in the blink of an eye Go feed one of his chickens Home. So I might go get breakfast And ah, sleep, I'm tired, goodbye My time has come to end my tour.It is clear that there are two secrets The ingredients help him to move on and on Rice is wine and cigarettes And after spending two a lot of both Dates with him I assume He smoked 70 cigarettes and drank a day Half a litre of rice wine per day I'm so glad I got out of here Meet him.

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