STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS
SLEEP DISORDERS
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being unable to stay awake during the day. This includes narcolepsy, which causes extreme daytime sleepiness.
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a tingling or prickly sensation in your legs, along with a powerful urge to move them
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acting in unusual ways while falling asleep, sleeping, or waking from sleep, such as walking, talking, or eating
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problems with the sleep-wake cycle. They make you unable to sleep and wake at the right times.
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Detailed explanation-1: -A parasomnia is a sleep disorder that involves unusual and undesirable physical events or experiences that disrupt your sleep. A parasomnia can occur before or during sleep or during arousal from sleep. If you have a parasomnia, you might have abnormal movements, talk, express emotions or do unusual things.
Detailed explanation-2: -(PAYR-uh-SOM-nee-uh) An abnormal disruption of sleep, such as sleep walking, sleep talking, nightmares, bedwetting, sleep apnea (problems with breathing that cause loud snoring), or nighttime seizures.
Detailed explanation-3: -Parasomnias occur in a state that lies between sleep and wakefulness. A person with parasomnias may seem to be alert, walking or talking or eating or doing other such activities but without awareness because the brain is only partially awake.
Detailed explanation-4: -Parasomnias often run in families, so there may be a genetic factor. Brain disorders may also be responsible for some parasomnias, such as some cases of REM sleep behavior disorder. Parasomnias can also be triggered by other sleep disorders, such as obstructive sleep apnea and various medications.