A 15-year-old girl in the UK has just woken from two months of almost solid sleep due to an extremely rare medical condition.u00a0Stacey Comerford from Shropshire in the UK is one of just 1,000 people alive to suffer from Kleine-Levin syndrome, commonly known as Sleeping Beauty Syndrome.u00a0The disorder means she sleeps for 20 hours a day for weeks at a time. When she awakes during these ‘episodes’, her mother Bernie says she’s in a trance, barely able to sip water or get any food down.

Fast asleep: Stacey Comerford has missed nine exams and even her birthday because of a rare condition which leaves her sleeping for weeks at a time