Is it clinically proven that humans need at least eight hours of sleep a day? I only get an average of six or so. What happens to me then? Does this cause Narcolepsy because I think I may be Narcoleptic.
According to Wikipedia, the main characteristic of narcolepsy is overwhelming excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS), even after adequate night time sleep. A person with narcolepsy is likely to become drowsy or to fall asleep, often at inappropriate times and places. Daytime naps may occur without warning and may be physically irresistible. These naps can occur several times a day.
According to Wikipedia, the main characteristic of narcolepsy is overwhelming excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS), even after adequate night time sleep. A person with narcolepsy is likely to become drowsy or to fall asleep, often at inappropriate times and places. Daytime naps may occur without warning and may be physically irresistible. These naps can occur several times a day.
Hmmm...I couldn’t recall how this started but it sure is not healthy. Let me remember the last time I had eight hours straight sleep. Err, grade school? Okay, I may stay up later than my friends do but what's sleeping at 12 midnight to 1:00 AM and waking up at 7:30 to 8:00AM. I just find it unfair when other people stay up all night long to party but still manage to get through the day as if they’ve had 48 hours of sleep. In my case, it has always been a major problem. Let me share with you some of my not-so-good experiences with my so-called ‘semi-narcolepsy’ disorder.
- I don’t copy notes in high school. Sometimes if I do, I’ll just tear my notebook page by page because I wouldn’t understand my handwriting. (Just imagine how much I’d spend for photocopies every subject that I have.) If my professors announce to check our notebooks to serve as class project, I’d borrow from my classmates and copy notes for the whole grading/quarter of the school year (whatever) all at one night so I’ll have something to submit the next day. One time in my Religion class in freshman high, our teacher gave us a pop quiz. We were to dissect the message of the song “Ironic” by Alanis Moresette through S-E-E process. I hurriedly scanned my notebook before the test started. I remember seeing the first few lines of my not-so-complete notes – “S of the S-E-E process stands for sharing of food and so on…” I had a hard time looking for that part of the song which had a thought on sharing of food! So I wrote down “It’s like 10,000 spoons and all you need is a knife...” Sounds like talking about food right?LOL. After the test, I asked my classmates how they answered that part, only to know that it wasn’t sharing of food but sharing of feelings. Tsk tsk tsk
- Mrs. Barrera of my Chemistry (lecture) class, no question, was really strict. I could have died of heart attack in her class, I swear! I didn’t have friends in her class because all my other batchmates enrolled in a different section. No friends = no one to borrow notes from/ no one to help me if I didn't understand the lesson/ no one to pinch me every time I fall asleep. So, I did whatever I could to keep up with the lessons. I had complete notes; I completed the semester with a good Chem. grade. Thanks to Nescafe 3-in-1. It was part of my lunch just so I wouldn’t sleep through Mrs. Barrera’s 1:00PM Chemistry class! Btw, I didn't know there's such thing as cold coffee that time. eek!
The list could go on forever- I slept in church, in the cinemas, in the school cafeteria, even in our review classes for the board exam! But now that I'm working, I actually thought that my 'semi-narcolepsy' disorder went away or so I thought. This week (after some time of being narcolepsy-free) my please-give-me-a-bitch-slap-coz-I'm-sleepy disease came back knocking on my door. The devil is again stepping on my eyelids! Grrrr...I can't sleep at work! And I am so not drinking coffee. Am not a fan.
If anyone of you knows any remedy for this aside from getting an 8-hour sleep, it would be very much appreciated. And no, thank you very much but there is no way I'm going to the doctor!
3 comments:
hahaha! Well, it's really you...One and only Koren...I can still remember when we were high school and you would just doze off while our teachers were having a discussion..oh! even while having test..You are such a sleepy head..Good for you...your angel "me" was there LOL! I'm one of the people whom you would ask if you could photocopy some notes...thank God. I have an intelligible handwriting or else you would surely have a harder time in our subjects...
mao ba na atong klase ni mR. Paler? di ko kalimot anang Ironic nga song. he put up a manila paper on the board, with Ironic lyrics written on them.
haaay, now i'm wondering if i'm narcoleptic too. kay sige kog katulog ma adlaw. but then again, basi kay bored ra jud ko kaayo kay i dont have work!!! haha!
Kat: yup Kat, Mr. Paler's class..hehehe buanga gyud!
hey! you're not narcoleptic. Sometimes if we couldn't find anything to make palipas oras, we sleep. Pero it's a different story if you go to the bathroom every now and then to wash your eyes or you pinch yourself para di ra makatulog!hehehe pero pasalamat nlng ko kay I know a friend na miski gasandig sa kahoy and gaulan, di jud nmo mapukaw!hahahah
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