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It's the stuff of fairy tales, all witches and pinpricks and poisoned apples.

The sort of story you might tell your children as you put them to bed,

a fable about people falling asleep for months, maybe years on end.

What if the next morning your own children wouldn't wake up?

In a child's bed was a ten-year-old girl in a little pink dress and little black and white

haralican tights. She really looked healthy at first glance. She had black glossy hair that was

spread out in her pillow like a sort of halo around her head and she really looked very much

as if she was asleep. What began as a puzzling phenomenon in Sweden

is now spreading to other countries. Scientists are stumped.

How do you treat the children who just won't wake up?

And what does it feel like to sleep for months, to experience what they're now calling

resignation syndrome? He said was like being in a glass box under the sea and you had the

sense as the sea was pushing in on you and that you were just fighting to keep it out.

It's a modern medical conundrum but could the cure depend on something as simple as hope?

You're listening to stories of our times from the times and the Sunday times. I'm Manvine Rana.

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