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[Rob]

what is the funniest thing that has happend with narcolepsy?? Falling asleep in your food?? Almost eating your computer keyboard??(I have a problem with that happening lol)


I think the funniest thing that happend to me was i was txting this girl and doze off, then i check my sent txt messages to make sure i sent the txt before i dozed off. what i found was a txt msg with a bunch of jumbled words that didnt make any sense and had absolutely nothing to do with what we were talking about. (now i know why she don't txt me anymore lol) i pretty much made up my own word. I wish i would have save the txt msg then i could have posted it on here lol

[Mirianda]

Well okay I'll tell

You know the typical "joke" about falling asleep on the keyboard and having the same letter repeating over and over again... Well I wasn't leaning on my keyboard... Just a second before, I was typing notes on the class I was receiving and just "happened" to fall asleep...While typing and listening to the teacher... So (I don't remember which letter it was) the letter just kept appearing until my friend poked me and whispered to me "what are you doing?" Yeah that's me... I wasn't diagnosed yet.

Oh and also another thing (that's a little embarrassing but anyhow... I took a shower and I was going to put my clothes in the clothe basket... I went and threw my clothes in the toilet (lucky me the person before had flushed) Long live automatic behaviors...

[Rob]

lol i have done the keyboard thing a few times when i was at work i would just have to read what i had already typed and get back on my thoughts. i try and look back and think about some of the things that have been funny just to make me smile if i'm having a bad day. i hope posting this thread helps somebody who is having a bad day.

[Saraiah]

My funniest thing is what my whole family now refers to as "the peanut butter incident." In order to deal with a crisis, I had been up most of the previous night working. I spent the day literally running around a city, from doctor's office to public transportation to FedEx store...

Finally I was getting ready to go to bed at about 7pm after that sleep-deprived and physically active day. Too hungry to go straight to bed, I spread gooey homemade peanut butter on toast, and sat down to eat it. The next thing I knew, I was awakening as my husband and daughter arrived home. They walked in to see me blearily lifting my head out of my plate, with peanut butter covering one side of my face, and with blotches on my shirt, hands, and arms. Apparently I must have repeatedly tried to awaken and then fallen asleep, accounting for the really prodigious bodily surface area covered by peanut butter. My husband said, "Well, now we know why people with narcolepsy are sometimes misunderstood as being drunk!"

Now when I'm pushing things too hard, my family cautions me to go to bed in order to avoid another peanut butter incident.

[Rob]

I havent experience falling asleep in food or anything like that. but i know its proally coming one day. when you woke up was the toast stuck to the side of your face?? or did you successfully eat the toast??

[Saraiah]

I havent experience falling asleep in food or anything like that. but i know its proally coming one day. when you woke up was the toast stuck to the side of your face?? or did you successfully eat the toast??

I abandoned the toast, which somehow remained on the plate. The universe was making it abundantly clear to me that it was time to go to bed.

[mainmchnc]

I wasn't Diagnosed yet. Just started getting the sleep attacks per say...
In a Car wash, fell asleep for better then an hour, slept threw the dryer, my phone was in my lap, it vibrated off my lap hit the door, i thought some one was trying to break into my car!!! scared the *BEEP* out of me... i jumped so bad.... it was a co worker asking why i hadn't come back from lunch >.< lol

Glad my boss was in meetings all day and never really found out i was late >.< lol

My boss did find out i had N, but it was cause i was late, I was being yelled at and fell asleep while he was yelling >.< LOL (not really yelling but "stern talking" ~.O

[m.clausen]

well, i was staying over at my girlfriends parents' house for thanksgiving. I wasnt the only one from out of town spending the night, her 2 cousins, 1 aunt, and 1 2nd cousins were staying over as well... Long story short, my girlfriends dad left his black berry in the living room (i had the pleasure of sleeping on the couch) and his alarm started going off at 4:30 am. Of course it didnt wake me up....but unfortunately it did wake up one of the cousins sleeping upstairs . Apparently, the alarm was going off for 30 minutes or so before her cousin came down to see what was going on....when he did come down, he 'woke me up' and shoved the blackberry in my face asking if it was mine. I said 'no, its craig's (my gfs dad)" and he said 'youre lucky its not yours, i was coming down here to shove it up your a**' and i said 'well, its not mine, its craig's you can go shove it up his a**' and i fell back asleep.

and of course in the morning, i woke up not remembering a thing that happened the previous night

[Day Dream Believer]

well, i was staying over at my girlfriends parents' house for thanksgiving. I wasnt the only one from out of town spending the night, her 2 cousins, 1 aunt, and 1 2nd cousins were staying over as well... Long story short, my girlfriends dad left his black berry in the living room (i had the pleasure of sleeping on the couch) and his alarm started going off at 4:30 am. Of course it didnt wake me up....but unfortunately it did wake up one of the cousins sleeping upstairs . Apparently, the alarm was going off for 30 minutes or so before her cousin came down to see what was going on....when he did come down, he 'woke me up' and shoved the blackberry in my face asking if it was mine. I said 'no, its craig's (my gfs dad)" and he said 'youre lucky its not yours, i was coming down here to shove it up your a**' and i said 'well, its not mine, its craig's you can go shove it up his a**' and i fell back asleep.

and of course in the morning, i woke up not remembering a thing that happened the previous night

This has happened more than a couple of times;
I am talking on the phone to a friend and I start talking about something way off topic cause I am actually starting to go into the 3rd zone. Last time I started talking about a red truck in the middle of a conversation about staff issues. My friend is a Counseling Supervisor and there are no red truck affiliated with her work. She started asking me what Red Truck has to do with the conversation. That woke me up and I had to tell her that I was starting to go into the 3rd zone.

2nd Funny thing: I recently had a sleep lab test where after spending the night in the lab you are also tested during the day. They put you down for naps every 40 minutes through out the day and examine the time it takes to go into rem and other things. Well, during the night test I was sure that a tech came in to adjust some equipment and a nurse accompanied him. When I checked the next morning no such event happened. Then the next day during the day nap tests I woke up to the sound of a door knocking and called for the person to enter. No one was there as it was a hallucination.
I also wake up laughing sometimes and it is very funny.

[Rodrigo Baires]

During my job experience in a bank.. I wrote a credit risk analysis report and during this
i had a sleep atack, being in front of the PC like 40 minutes without writing more that
one or two sentences and writing words without sense and connection. When i "came
back" i concluded with the report and review it. My boss also review it and aproached to
me asking "ok, it is fine, no problem, but i dont understand the relation between
the credit risk and the DELICIOUS CHEESE PIE...????" (written in the middle of
one sentence)

In the middle of an important archeologists convention or meeting in France,
going with my father, (he is the archeologist, i was the tourist jaja). This event
was very important for all the participants, like the day of the day for someones,
because the importance of the rock art cavern and the drawing techniques, etc.
Once inside of this famous rock art cave, going in a little open train, observing buffalos
drawings in the walls, my father had to catch me and pull me again into the little
train because i was very sleepy and falling down out of the train - in the middle
of the darkness- in front of all the archeologists sights (also the buffalos jaja) that
couldnt believe my "lack of interest".

[Stacy D]

I buy stuff on the internet when I'm out of it. One time I ordered a new cable box from the cable company and then got mad when they showed up to install it because I thought I hadn't ordered it. My husband had to remind me that I did order it.

Another time I got a new magazine subscription in the mail I didn't remember ordering.

There have been other things, I just can't remember them now. I suppose it looks funny when I get mad about receiving things I don't remember ordering because I usually assume someone else screwed up. It's also the running joke to keep me away from a computer when I'm really tired.

[sleepallday]

These are all pretty good! Love the peanut butter incident!

I have had several hypnogogic hallucinations that made me leap out of bed screaming and then check the house for intruders. One time, as I started to doze off, I heard a bang that I thought was the refrigerator falling over. I of course went to check. Because, naturally, the refrigerator would fall over spontaneously in the middle of the night!
Everything was fine...

[bigbeautii2012]

I was diagnosed this year and its been well....bleh but anyway

Last year for my my sweet 16 my girls and I went to a teen club, i was dancing having fun i even started to dance on this guy. apparently that was the perfect time to fall asleep . needless to say i was the death of the party ha ha