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• Li Zhanying of Henan, China, is known in her community for having gone more than 40 years without sleeping at all.
Her husband and neighbors confirmed her claims, saying that she stayed up all night to do chores and didn't ever nap.
But recently, Li visited a Beijing medical center, where doctors used sensors to monitor her and discovered that Li does sleep -- with her eyes open and while talking to her husband.
Doctors called it "sleep when awake," which is similar to sleepwalking.
They said Li sometimes had "slow eyeballs and hollow eyes," indicating that she was resting. [Oddity Central, 9/3/2021]