Posted by sleepy sandie on May 29, 2008 at 06:52:05:In Reply to: Re: other symptoms of narcolepsy posted by tessyy on May 27, 2008 at 13:33:33:
i have a narcolepsy diagnosis & have all of the additional symptoms you mentioned. any condition that causes you to have very poor quality sleep over a long period of time causes your brain to perform poorly.
i think of our brains like our computers. when we sleep, we process memories from short term memory to long term memory & organize our billion random thoughts we have each day, deleting the ones we dont need & storing the ones we do for further analysis. if we never do any maintenance to our computers they become over loaded with information & become slower & slower until one day they just... crash. our brains are operating slower & slower due to a lack of "sleep-processing".