BBC Documentary: "My Shocking Story: Dying for Sleep"

Think your insomnia is bad?  Well, if you're still alive to read this, then it's not as bad as it could be if you were suffering from fatal familial insomnia.  That's when you can't EVER go to sleep and within a couple of months you've kicked the bucket.  This 35-minute BBC Documentary looks at this incredibly rare and always fatal genetic disease.

Yes -- you read that right.  Genetic.  It's found in only 30 families.  As in a disease that could be wiped out today if everyone who had the faulty gene would just go down to the vet's and get neutered.  Of course, some people do not realize they have the gene until AFTER they have kids, but still the kids then should get a total hysterectomy or a vasectomy.  That way if they are up all night, at least they could be having sex and not having to worry about their kids contracting this incurable and deadly disease.

One interesting note about fatal familial insomnia -- even though you cannot sleep, you still dream (sometimes.)