What is cataplexy like?

Cataplexy is sudden muscle weakness triggered by strong emotions like embarrassment, laughter, surprise, or anger. Cataplexy can cause your head to drop, your face to droop, your jaw to weaken, or your knees to give way. Attacks can also affect your whole body and cause you to fall down.

What causes parasomnia disorder?

Parasomnias often run in families, so there may be a genetic factor. Brain disorders may also be responsible for some parasomnias, such as some cases of REM sleep behavior disorder. Parasomnias can also be triggered by other sleep disorders, such as obstructive sleep apnea and various medications.

What does narcolepsy sleep look like?

While individuals with narcolepsy are very sleepy during the day, they usually also experience difficulties staying asleep at night. Sleep may be disrupted by insomnia, vivid dreaming, sleep apnea, acting out while dreaming, and periodic leg movements.

What mimics narcolepsy?

Chronic fatigue syndrome. Some narcolepsy symptoms, like extreme daytime sleepiness, trouble sleeping at night, and an ongoing lack of energy, overlap with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS).

What is KLS syndrome?

Kleine-Levin syndrome is a rare disorder characterized by the need for excessive amounts of sleep (hypersomnolence), (i.e., up to 20 hours a day); excessive food intake (compulsive hyperphagia); and behavioral changes such as an abnormally uninhibited sexual drive. The disorder primarily affects adolescent males.

What is the scariest sleep disorder?

What it is: Night terrors, otherwise known as sleep terrors, involve screaming, flailing in one’s sleep, and episodes of intense fear. Many individuals who suffer with night terrors also sleepwalk. Night terrors generally last anywhere from a few seconds to a few minutes, or sometimes even longer.

What is the most uncommon sleep disorder?

Insomnia – being unable to fall asleep and stay asleep. This is the most common sleep disorder.