A mother-of-one suffered a rare form of amnesia that caused her to lose 17 years of her life.
Naomi Jacobs, 32, woke up in 2008 believing she was a 15-year-old girl ready to sit her GCSE exams, thinking it was 1992.
She had no idea she was actually living in the 21st century - and was terrified to find out she was mum to an 11-year-old boy who she didn't even recognise.
Doctors told Naomi that her body had been under so much stress that part of her brain had simply closed down - erasing memories of most of her life.
She was left baffled by modern technology including mobile phones and the internet and it’s taken three years for Naomi to adapt to living in the ‘future.’
"I fell asleep in 1992 as a bold, brassy, very confident know-it-all 15-year-old - and woke up a 32-year-old single mum living in a council house,” she said.
"The last thing I remember was falling asleep in my lower bunk bed, dreaming about a boy in my class.
"When I woke up, I looked in the mirror and had the fright of my life when I saw an old woman with wrinkles staring back at me.
"Then this little boy appeared and started calling me mum - that's when I started to scream.
"I didn't know who he was - I didn't think he was much younger than I was, and I certainly didn't remember giving birth to him.
"I began sobbing uncontrollably.
"To say I was petrified was an understatement. I just wanted my mum. I couldn't get my head around going to bed one night and waking up in a different century. (Read the full article)
