Narcolepsy

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Hallucinations, and Automatic Behavior . However, only 20 to 25 percent of patients suffer the complete range of symptoms.
EDS is usually the first symptom to be noted. It is sometimes expressed as sleepiness, tiredness, lack of energy, sleep attacks, or an unusual susceptibility to becoming sleepy or falling asleep. In general, the development of EDS is a slow process and requires several years to become an obvious problem. Although this pathological sleepiness is present every day, the intensity varies throughout each day. The afflicted individual may only be aware of the more severe of the daily episodes. Unfortunately, a person with cannot resist feeling tired no matter how much sleep they get each night.
EDS becomes most obvious when, as is often the case, the person becomes sleepy or falls asleep at inappropriate times. Sometimes these sleep "attacks" occur with little or no warning and the person falls asleep. At other times, an approaching attack can be detected, ...

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