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Durban - Narcolepsy has been a well-documented sleeping disorder that affects one in a few thousand people. Recently the Pietermaritzburg High Court granted an order that a KwaZulu-Natal matriculant ...
By some estimates, nearly half of the world's population suffers from a sleep disorder of some kind. Whether it be sleep ...
For anyone living with narcolepsy, sleepiness is always present and oppressive.To experience a similar level of sleepiness, the average person would need to stay awake for 48–72 hours.
For people with narcolepsy, the boundary between sleep and wakefulness can be blurrier. They often enter REM sleep within 15 minutes of falling asleep.
In fact, people with narcolepsy have trouble sleeping at night. One of the biggest misconceptions is that we're hindered. I don't view myself as being hindered in any way.
This is life with narcolepsy, which can be triggered by an infection or the flu. Imagine repeatedly falling asleep or falling down paralyzed when laughing or startled.
People with narcolepsy are excessively sleepy during the day and can often drift off. Isabelle Arnulf, who treats narcolepsy at Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris, noticed that her patients ...
The people with narcolepsy remembered 4.3 dreams and 4.5 nightmares per week, on average, whereas the healthy sleepers reported remembering 0.8 dreams and 0.4 nightmares a week, on average.
Durban - Narcolepsy has been a well-documented sleeping disorder that affects one in a few thousand people. Recently the Pietermaritzburg High Court granted an order that a KwaZulu-Natal matriculant ...
For people living with narcolepsy, no amount of sleep alleviates the feeling of being tired. While most people are either awake or asleep, narcolepsy feels as if you're never really in either state.
A large percentage of people with narcolepsy have cataplexy as well, which along with excessive sleepiness disrupts a person’s ability to socialize, work at a job, drive a car or even have close ...