How would you feel if you couldn't fall asleep at all? This poor guy had to go through that.

How would you feel if you couldn't fall asleep at all? This poor guy had to go through that.

Paul Kern was a Hungarian soldier that fought in World War 1. He was an excellent solider and was awarded medals for fighting even when the last member of his squad was killed.

Despite his excellence, he too fell victim to a gunshot wound that should have been fatal. Paul Kern was shot in the temple, and had part of his brain destroyed.

That's right, a large chunk of Paul's frontal lobe was destroyed, which should have killed any human being. It didn't kill him. In fact, the only thing that changed in Paul's life that he was physically unable to fall asleep.

Doctors studied him and just didn't understand the fact that he was alive and the only problem with him is that he couldn't fall asleep.

Sedatives and sleeping pills couldn't even make Paul fall asleep. It may sound awful, but Paul didn't suffer. Part of his nervous system was also destroyed.

As a result, he became immune to his own exhaustion and insisted that he felt perfectly fine! He stayed awake until his death in 1955.

...and you thought you were a champ for staying awake all night during finals week.

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