Sunday, February 09, 2014

Narcolepsia

A reality of dreams

by vaughanbell
CC Licensed photo by Flickr user i k o. Click for source.The journal Sleep has an interesting study on how people with narcolepsy can experience sometimes striking confusions between what they've dreamed and what's actually happened.
Narcolepsy is a disorder of the immune system where it inappropriately attacks parts of the brain involved in sleep regulation.
The result is that affected people are not able to properly regulate sleep cycles meaning they can fall asleep unexpectedly, sometimes multiple times, during the day./.../

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