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Narcolepsy

Narcolepsy Narcolepsy is a disorder marked by repeated episodes of excessive daytime sleepiness and brief lapses into sleep or reduced awareness, sometimes with automatic behavior and later amnesia for what happened.

Narcolepsy is a disorder marked by repeated episodes of excessive daytime sleepiness and brief lapses into sleep or reduced awareness, sometimes with automatic behavior and later amnesia for what happened. It is often accompanied by cataplexy, sleep paralysis, and vivid hallucinations as a person is falling asleep, and involves rapid eye movement sleep starting unusually early.