3: Samantha only sleeps every 8 days

What Was That Like - True Stories. Real People.

Scott Johnson & Glassbox Media

True Crime, Documentary, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.6 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2018

⏱️ 26 minutes

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In this episode, we’re talking with Samantha. And that’s not her real name, by the way. She has an interesting story, and it has to do with a medical condition that she’s had since childhood. Samantha has hyper insomnia. I’m sure you already know about insomnia. Maybe you actually experience it from time to time. But what Samantha has is HYPER insomnia. That’s more than just trouble sleeping sometimes. For her, it means that she typically goes about 8 days at a time without having any sleep. Can you imagine going more than a week with no sleep? In this conversation, we talked about the medical aspect of it and what’s actually going on. She also has some other medical issues that kind of complicate things. I also asked her the question she probably gets asked more than any other – what do you do with all that extra awake time? We talked about the advantages, and the disadvantages, of this particular condition. And I also asked her, “If there were a cure for this, would you accept it?” There are some online resources available to learn more about hyper insomnia, and Samantha also has a blog where she talks about it in detail. I’ll have those links in the show notes for this episode, which is at whatwasthatlike.com/03. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is a Glass Fox Media Podcast.
0:05.0	What was that like?
0:08.0	Contains adult language and content and is not intended for all audiences.
0:13.0	Listener discretion is advised.
0:16.0	Welcome to what was that like. I'm your host Scott Johnson. This is a show
0:29.0	where we talk to regular people, people just like you or just like me, who have found themselves in an extremely unusual
0:36.6	situation. We hear their stories and get inside their head because we all
0:42.1	want to know what was that like.
0:45.0	More information about each episode at what was that like.com.
0:50.0	Here we're talking with Samantha. That's not her real name by the way. She has an interesting
1:01.7	story and has to do with a medical condition that she's had since
1:04.9	childhood. Samantha has hyper insomnia. I'm sure you already know about insomnia, maybe actually
1:11.9	even experience it from time to time, but what Samantha has is hyper-insomnia.
1:18.0	That's more than just trouble sleeping sometimes.
1:20.0	For her, it means that she typically goes about eight days at a time without having any sleep.
1:27.0	Can you imagine going more than a week with no sleep?
1:30.0	In this conversation we talked about the medical aspect of it and what's actually going on.
1:34.0	She also has some other medical issues that kind of complicate things.
1:37.0	I also asked her the question she probably gets asked more than any other.
1:41.0	What do you do with all that extra awake time?
1:45.2	We talked about the advantages and the disadvantages of this particular condition, and I also
1:50.1	asked her, if there were a cure for this would you accept it? There are some online
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