夢遊失憶睡不醒:英少女患怪病成睡美人
Shannon Magee, 17, suffers from a rare neurological disorder which means she can sleep for 22 hours a day for almost a fortnight. She also has bizarre episodes - roughly once a month - where she will belt out pop songs at the top of her voice, walk around naked and have ghostly hallucinations while she sleeps.
17歲的香儂-麥基因爲患有一種罕見的腦神經失調症，可以連續兩週，每天睡22個小時。大約每個月她都會發作一次，症狀很奇怪：睡覺的時候會不由自主地唱歌，裸着身子夢遊並且做可怕的噩夢。For the past five years, the youngster, who has two brothers and three sisters, has slept through birthdays, Christmases, family holidays including a skiing trip to the Alps and even her GCSE exams.
在過去的五年裏，她錯過了很多重要的事情，比如和兄弟姐妹們一起過生日和聖誕，還錯過了一家人去阿爾卑斯山的滑雪旅行以及自己的中學畢業考試。Shannon was seen by various doctors before finally being diagnosed with Kleine-Levin Syndrome (KLS) after her father. There are only 45 people in the UK who have the condition, which is a complex neurological disorder characterised by periods of excessive amounts of sleep and altered behaviour.
香儂看過很多醫生，最終被診斷和父親一樣患有克萊李文症候羣（KLS），在英國僅有45人得這種病。KLS是一種伴有間歇性大量睡眠和奇怪舉止的複雜神經障礙症。
The teenager wants to become a nurse so she can help others, but is worried her condition will get in the way of her dream. Shannon, a college student in Bolton, Greater Manchester said: “It is like being awake in a coma. It takes part of your life away with it. 'It's like I'm in my own little world and I don't recognise people. When I'm awake it's like I'm sleepwalking.”
香儂想要成爲一名護士，但是她擔心自己的身體狀況根本無法令她實現夢想。香農現在是大曼徹斯特波爾頓大學的一名學生，她說：“我就像是從昏迷中醒來，睡眠剝奪了我的正常生活。我就像是活在自己的世界裏，我不記得人名。當我醒來的時候，我覺得自己在夢遊。”
