40 Years Earned of 1/3 Asleep Saved !

A Hungarian man once spent 40 years of his life without even once going to sleep until the time he died.

Here's a Reel from Instagram for you about this..

Paul Kern was in battle in WWI when a bullet wounded the frontal lobe of his brain.

Until his death in 1955, he didn't sleep from then on.

His curious condition made him the subject of several intense tests by brain and nerve specialists throughout Europe, but none could ever trace just why his body no longer needed sleep.

"From the moment Mr. Kern opened his eyes in Luxemberg, he did not sleep, nor did he express the slightest desire to do so."

Apart from the occasional headache, Kern's brain mysteriously did not require sleep as an essential form of rest, seeing as his work as a government administrator, which he continued doing after the incident, was never affected.

More than the lack of sleep, he reported that the many hours he spent awake in bed trying to lure sleep in exhausted him more than staying awake.

Later, Kern began a routine of laying down and closing his eyes for 2 hours every day.

While he was completely alert and responsive during this time, experts think his brain was able to rest for him to function seamlessly for the remainder of his active hours

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My Comments..This might seem to be useful like for improving efficiency..If everyone didn't sleep we could do more work if this type of insomnia caused no harm and it could also be used for the military..

My question would be about Fatal Familial Insomnia FFI a form of insomnia also that goes on without sleep,

 Like it says on The Jug of Vivarin May Cause Drowsiness but Don't Count on It!.. 

 According to this Wikipedia link FFI is  fatal to most people who have it in about three months.. this is caused by prions like in Alzheimer's and this is why FFI is usually fatal, while as in the headline the other type of insomnia doesn't seem to even have adverse events.

I surely don't find insomnia more relaxing ..sleep is, and being awake is often so active!

Almost all types of animals sleep including even fish and birds and it seems so essential even to life, it makes me wonder if this example of insomnia is actually a hoax..

Since damage to the frontal lobe of the brain is common like with accidents or brain damage it would seem in the history of these events this would have repeated if it wasn't a hoax. 

  This might be provable with changes in the brain like deep ultrasound perhaps to change the brains of mice or the frontal lobes of other animals with larger brains. 

Research has found that you need to forget what you do quite well all night because while most people think 50,000 to 70,000 thoughts a day they forget most of the p.m. memories with amnesia. 

 Other science shows that you need to create new memories at the base of your brain to not become upset or edgy. I'd always read that while short-term memory in the brain is limited, we have unlimited long-term memory storage ability.. but if we're basically condensing the information while we sleep by forgetting unimportant memories it would seem there might also be a limit for this condensed information because there might be no extra room for it beyond a certain point.

On the other hand the brain is hugely complex with ten thousand different types of neurons so this might involve change to another area of the brain than FL.

Some scientists believe that as we get older our neural connections get more and more complex so it takes more and more energy to access them and that slows us down with age. A cat essentially has the same neurons we have, we just have more of them so if this idea is true We expect that cats might not slow down as much in cat years because they have fewer connections they're making with time.