Thread: Narcolepsy

Originally Posted by justme

I was reading on sleep disorders and I found one called narcolepsy. This is a mostly hereditary disorder where you just fall asleep whenever even when your standing up or you feel an exciting emotion. Anyway the book said that people with narcolepsy skip all the dream stages and go straight into REM sleep. Just wonder if anyone here has narcolepsy and if they find it really easy to lucid dream because of it. And I haven’t found out why this disorder goes straight into REM…
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I am not sure on this but I think because the subject is in and out of sleep on such an irregular yet often basis, they never get the rest that would normally be sufficient. The body then falling into it's needed deep REM sleep stages.
If that is the case, then lucid dreaming would be difficult.

I am not quite sure if this is the same thing, but I saw a documentation ones about people, who would fall asleep WHENEVER. It wasn't even controlable. Once they fell asleep it was possible that they would be sleeping for 20 days and more. They even fall asleep while they are eating ..
So this is not for any advantage of the affected person. I doubt one have them has thought about lucid dreaming

Originally Posted by Howetzer

I am not sure on this but I think because the subject is in and out of sleep on such an irregular yet often basis, they never get the rest that would normally be sufficient. The body then falling into it's needed deep REM sleep stages.
If that is the case, then lucid dreaming would be difficult.
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Hi,

I have narcolepsy and fall straight into REM sleep from walking, WILDING as you call it, this can be when sitting down (usually in a boring lecture at university&#33, This is often a vivid lucid dream in which I have much control and can go about having fun - flying around, interacting with other people etc, and then decide when to wakeup again to see if I have missed anything important!,

I once did this through an entire 2 hour lecture, waking up occassionally, then deciding that the dream was more important and could renter the dream where I left off providing I chose to do so within a minute or two,

Narcoleptics can often get more rest than they need by sleeping too much, thus always have had all the NREM sleep they need!. ITs just like the WBTB technique thats talked about but you can do it any time you feel tired, which is genarally when sitting down.

I do the same when I have a lie in, often being woken up by a friend, I tell them Im in a really lucid dream, to piss off, and then renter the dream!

I have for instance a 30min dream and feel I am losing my lucidity so wake up, write down anything interesting, then rejoin the dream!, have a 20min dream, wake up, write down, carry on into a third dream, and so on until about 5-6 dreams in total by which time they dont last long and I say goodbye and get up for work!

Dont know if all narcoleptics can do this, but being so makes going straight into a Lucid dream easy

hey, now that brilliant!!!

its a blessing and a curse =]

I dont know whether to feel sorry or happy for you..lol