The Boy Who Simulated Death and His Anxiety Vanished | Smarter While You Sleep

<p>In the summer of 1896, a healthy boy of sixteen was alone in an upstairs room in Madurai when a sudden fear of death came over him. He didn&#39;t run from it. By his own later telling, he lay down and acted it out, as real as he could make it. And he said the fear of death left him that day and never came back. 🪔 I have known a good many people who said a fear had left them. Very few said it at sixteen, and then had nearly fifty-four more years of life to test it. What those years found, I&#39;ll save for the last evening.</p><p><br></p><p>🎥 <a href="https://www.patreon.com/GrandpaHuxley/posts/custom-episode-3-169039152?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_fan&utm_content=web_share">⁠⁠⁠⁠Commission a custom Grandpa Huxley vid here.⁠⁠⁠</a></p><p>👋 Support me <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/033yM59LUygL9RZp8ndqeU?si=wg6Ehly-QlyEbpFlFYRNtA">⁠⁠⁠⁠here on Spotify⁠⁠⁠⁠</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/61586192199061/support/?surface=permalink_subscribe_url&entrypoint_surface=comet_permalink">⁠⁠⁠⁠on Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠</a>, or <a href="https://www.patreon.com/cw/GrandpaHuxley/membership">⁠⁠⁠⁠on Patreon⁠⁠</a></p><p><br></p><p>Tonight we follow him the whole way. The strong schoolboy who slept so deeply that almost nothing could wake him. A note left behind, and a train ticket chosen from an old atlas. Stones and broken pots thrown at a silent boy in a temple. A mother who climbed a hill to bring him home, and went home without him. A hot path where his friends thought they had lost him. Robbers with sticks in the middle of the night. And a second room, nearly fifty-four years after the first, where a real illness asked that boy&#39;s old question one more time.</p><p><br></p><p>If these Sleep Stories help your night, don&#39;t forget to subscribe so the next story can find you when you need it most.</p><p><br></p><p>Tell me something before you drift off, nightlings. Are you a night owl, a morning bird, or neither one? The boy in tonight&#39;s story was so hard to wake that I have my own guess about him.</p><p><br></p><p><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lxlNW6s8h8eV0DoaPKynh83MQU8Zhr2dns1fetGYh4U" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Sources</a></p><p><br></p><p>____</p><p>This video is a sleep documentary from the Grandpa Huxley Wisdom for Sleep Network.</p><p>____</p><p>DISCLAIMER ⚠️</p><p>This video is for informational &amp; entertainment purposes only. It explores psychological &amp; historical concepts