Who would have guessed that sleeping could make you famous overnight? Yes, you read it right. A girl from West Bengal made a new record for sleeping and won a whopping amount of Rs 6 lakh.

Reports say Triparna Chakraborty, a resident of Srirampur, has a long history of falling asleep regardless of any circumstance. A nationwide sleep competition was held and 4.5 lakh applicants submitted their applications. A total of 15 competitors were chosen among them. Only four competitors made it to the finals.

Triparna left all the competitors behind and won was crowned the first Sleep Champion of India. Reports also say she slept for 9 hours continuously for 100 days.

In the all-India level competition, each candidate received a mattress and a sleep tracker. All of them were asked to show their sleep ability and Triparna won the title by sleeping for nine consecutive hours.

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She bagged six cheques of Rs 1 lakh each as a reward.

The first Sleep Champion of India currently works for a multinational company in America and continues to work from home she managed this by working late at night and getting sleep during the day. Through a website, Triparna came to know about this competition.

After bagging the whopping amount, Triparna has now decided to fulfil her and her family’s needs, reports said.

For the unversed, the sleeping competition was organised by home and sleep solutions company, Wakefit.

The competition criteria required the participants to sleep for nine straight hours and based on factors including sleep length, awake time, light sleep, deep sleep, and REM sleep, Triparna spotted the first position with a 95% sleep efficiency rate.

Last year, 15 applicants were chosen from throughout the nation for the Wakefit Sleep Internship Season 2: Batch of 2021. After sleeping for 100 days, the remaining 15 contestants each got INR 1 lakh, while Triparna took the grand prize home.

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