Nov
27
2009
What’s The Name Of This Sleep Disorder?
Posted by: Alan in Sleep Disorder, tags: Disorder, Name, Sleep, This, What's
I know I read about this somewhere, but I need to know the name or where I can find out about it.
Apparently, a normal human takes about 30 minutes to begin dreaming, and according to the sleep disorder, the person will begin dreaming immediatly, within minutes.
Can anyone recall the name?
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November 27th, 2009 at 4:44 am
What you are referring to is a symptom and not an actual sleep disorder. Excessive Daytime Sleepiness may cause sleep where REM & sleep patterns are disturbed, but these symptoms (both EDS and disturbed REM patterns) are typically, but not always, indicative of Narcolepsy.
Narcolepsy is typically tested using a wake study that indicates sleep latency, or the amount of time it takes one to enter into REM sleep. I understand there are four pre-REM stages of sleep typically 45 minutes long, and the fifth stage of sleep is REM, or dream stage of sleep. This cycle continues in the same pattern in non-narcoleptic individuals. Since this pattern is disturbed in narcoleptics, when they go to sleep, they may enter REM sleep almost immediately, hence the testing of brain signals for sleep latency.
This is very likely more information than you needed, but I am a narcoleptic with a sleep latency of 5 minutes and have done much of my own personal research since diagnosis in order to understand, and adjust to life with the challenges it can present. If you are interested in addl info:
http://www.narcolepsynetwork.org/faq.php
November 27th, 2009 at 4:51 am
might be rem
November 27th, 2009 at 8:28 am
Do a search for ” Narcolepsy “