An insomniac is a person suffering from the illness called insomnia. It is something that deprives someone of sleep.
There are several types of insomnia, depending on the various factors that might cause it. Among the most frequent phenomenons, the sleep apnea (the person forgets to breathe while sleeping for some time, resulting in an interruption of the sleep cycle), the restless legs syndrome (people can't help moving some of their members), the Periodic Limb Movement Disorder (while asleep, the person moves every 30 seconds in a brutal way, resulting in a poor quality sleep).

There is another type of vary rare insomnia, called fatal familial insomnia. This illness is due to a protein which underwent a mutation, and called “prion” (it can be compared to the one resulting in Creutzfeldt Jakob disease). This disease manifests itself at around 40 years and its evolution is quick. From a “modest” insomnia, it leads to dementia, troubles to make some moves, contractions that are similar with those following an electric shock. It is fatal, and, unfortunately, there is no treatment yet.

“His insomnia was so bad, he couldn't sleep during office hours”. Arthur Baer.
Among all famous insomniacs, there was Groucho Marx. After the Wall Street Crash of 1929, during which he lost quite a lot of money, he started developing the disease. So, as he didn't want to get bored, he decided to call strangers in the middle of the night and insulted them.
Well, at that time, there was no way one could find who made those calls. Yeah, times change and bring about their share of disadvantages.

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