| Show TRANCE LASTED LONG SWEDISH WOMAN SPENT THIRTY TWO YEARS IN BED awakened in perfect health and with complete possession of her hep faculties with no memory I 1 of her sleep there are many cases on record of 0 people remaining in a sleeplike sleep like trance tor for several years these trances being often caused from injuries to the head but no one has baa had so long a sleep as a woman named caroline allson who lives in the little island of ikuo oil off the coast ot of sweden the sleeper of ikuo was born in 1 1861 she bhe was wail a perfectly normal child and tor for the first 14 years ot of her life she was strong and healthy she did not go to work till just before her fourteenth birthday one day she came home complaining of toothache and went to bed soon afterward she tell fell into a deep trance which lasted from 1876 1875 until 1907 a period of 32 years while in this state the did not seem to see or hear nor did she show any trace of feeling tor for though her arms were pricked with pins needles and other sharp instruments she was not once observed to wince only once or avice ice did she seem to wake from her lethargy on one occasion in response to a cry from her mother she moved her lips as it if to try and speak when her mother died caroline must have been conscious of the tact fact for she burst into tears though there was no other change in her condition two years later when her brother was drowned she also had a fit of weeping for 30 years and more her only nourishment consisted ot of two cupfuls of milk a day after the death of her brother sho she was left to the care of a housekeeper and then gradual signs of awakening intelligence began to dawn 0 once n ce sh she e was left alone for several hours with food near her and the food was seen to have gradually disappeared there was no doubt that her trance had been broken A few months later she regained consciousness asking tor for her mother she did not recognize her brothers brother at all for she only remembered them as tiny boys boy gradually she regained possession p of her faculties until at the age of forty six she had completely recovered from her trance rance being in perfect health and aad we well 11 and hearty in every way she only remembers her early life but nothing that happened during her long illness her case has completely mystified the doctors doctore who cannot explain it la in any way |
