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And now Peter Donnelly, a former teacher, has spoken of his own similar experience in a guest piece in The Telegraph.

‘About 17 years ago I started feeling odder than usual, with an antipathy to windows, mirrors and glass in general,’ he writes.

‘I also felt claustrophobic in cars and experienced dizziness and mental absences. I thought I was going mad.’

Mr Donnelly, from north London, describes how he was initially diagnosed with mini-strokes, but was eventually taken to hospital after suffering five epileptic fits in the same evening.

A series of tests seemed to show that he had a fast-growing brain tumour until doctors finally operated – and found a dead tropical tapeworm.

Credit: Metro.co.uk