Sleep turned him into a devil

For nearly ten years, the Rogers and their spouses never had a peaceful sleep. Whenever he closed his eyes and sank into a dream, Derek's husband was gentle, he was silent, suddenly turned into fierce thugs like monsters: destroying houses, beating his wife and children, even Damage yourself.

Become the devil in sleep

And as usual every morning, Derek Rogers did n't remember the violence that happened last night.

The strange disease suddenly struck Mr. Derek one night in 1998. Since then, every week he saw emergency hospitalization 2 to 3 times with enough injuries: broken nose, broken ribs, head bleeding. . His wife Linda has been hugging a pillow for another room for a decade.

Derek can go crazy in his sleep.

Derek Rogers' crazy sleep disorder is the only case in the UK, and probably the only one in the world. (Interestingly, it is very similar to the story depicted in ' Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde ' by Swedish author Robert Louis Stevenson - one of the most famous horror novels of the 19th century, about the base. Strange disease has turned Dr. Jekyll into a devil ' Mr Hyde' during sleepwalking.

'I am not a violent thug. I do not have the habit of swearing, cursing, not beating anyone but talking to my wife and children. Because of that, I can't believe that I did those horrifying things when I was asleep. '

Thankfully, Mr. Rogers' case has been handled promptly by doctors at the Papworth Hospital in Cambridge. After six ineffective treatments, Mr. Rogers is persisting with the seventh remedy at an estimated cost of £ 13,000 per year: a special sleeper mixture capable of severing the circuits between the center. brain and body muscles.