Last Night’s TV – Jess: Britain’s Youngest Sleepwalker
I found this film hugely anticlimactic in that it turned out Jess wasn’t sleepwalking at all. She was actually awake and just really enjoyed playing in her child’s vision of a perfect imaginary world.
Her ‘condition’ was rapidly cured by a more routine and slightly stricter bedtime regime.
The hype – and the picture of Jess, looking decidedly creepy – was purporting that this little girl was something extraordinary. And she is, but not in the way the film’s blurb implied. Though the term Eidetic Imagery was given to her night time play, it means only that she has a vivid imagination. Read more & comment »
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