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by confidential (no login)Narcolepsy is a neurological disorder. A life long illness. A disruption between wake and sleep and between sleep and wake. It is not a "sleep disorder". It is predominately a "wake disorder". It interrupts life. It reduces learning. Not just in school, but in the everyday acquisition of knowledge. Relationships suffer. Careers suffer. We end up falling short of our potentials. It is a painful disorder, fighting off sleep. Having sleep enter the wakeful hours is disturbing. When sleep enters it bring with it extreme fatigue, muscle paralysis, and day time dreaming (which is not normal). We can call it cataplexy, sleep paralysis, hallucinations: it is just a spontaneous changing from wake to sleep, and sometimes a state of fusion between the two. When we enter rapid eye movement [REM] we shut down our muscles so we don't physically act out our dreams.
I keep falling asleep, I will complete on a different day.
Posted on Dec 20, 2008, 10:54 PM
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