Mother Charlotte Cripps detailed how her six-year-old daughter Liberty practically slept through the entire The Eras Tour concert in Liverpool after waiting for it for months.
Recalling her experience to The Independent, Charlotte likened the encounter to numerous reports of Swifties suffering "post-concert amnesia" after attending The Eras Tour.
For many, the adrenaline and heightened excitement of seeing the Grammy-winning singer perform in front of their very eyes seemed to have caused them "amnesia-like symptoms."
According to Charlotte, her daughter Liberty was "so overwhelmed by the build-up, adrenaline, excitement, swapping friendship bracelets, and dressing up" that she got narcolepsy.
Liberty was "out like a light for most of the show, and doesn't have much recollection of it."
Charlotte and her daughter attended The Eras Tour Liverpool at the Anfield Stadium. Looking "utterly shellshocked," Charlotte was overwhelmed seeing the 62,000 people who wanted to sing "Cruel Summer" with Swift live.
Immediately looking pale, Charlotte shuffled her daughter and even hugged her to comfort her.
"She'd already asked me weeks earlier if Taylor Swift, "the actual person," would really be there - or would she just appear on a TV screen? Nothing could prepare her for the reality," Charlotte remembered.
Just as Swift finished singing her opening song, "Miss Americana & The Heartbreak Prince," minutes away before Charlotte's favorite song, "Cruel Summer," the six-year-old "fell asleep like a ragdoll in her red plastic seat."
"I was a bit worried - was she unwell? Hungry? She'd just had a bowl of macaroni cheese in a Liverpool burger bar. I gave her some water. How could a child who had been dreaming of this moment for months just conk out?" she wrote.
Worried, Charlotte tried to wake Liberty up whenever her favorite songs were being performed, eventually skipping classics like "Look What You Made Me Do" and "Shake It Off."
Charlotte instantly became worried when Liberty asked to go home around 8:00 p.m., which was an hour earlier than her normal bedtime.
"She even mumbled to me: "Mum, I think I want to go home." Go home? Was she delirious? I really can't explain it," Charlotte furthered.
According to experts, what Liberty might have experienced was similar to "post-traumatic stress response, perhaps due to sensory overload."
"Maybe it's all down to familiarity - Swifties know the songs by heart, and so can't form new memories when they hear them performed live. Maybe it's the same "deindividuation" that people in angry mobs experience - a complete loss of self that comes about when in a massive crowd of people are all feeling the same way," Charlotte furthered.
Meanwhile, The Cleveland Clinic says narcolepsy in children is "rare," only affecting between 20 to 50 people out of every 100,000 around the world.
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