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Sleep apnea is when you actually stop breathing during the night. This is a really serious problem and can lead to heart damage. The treatment is usually a breathing machine that increases oxygen flow.

Narcolepsy is more of a incorrect way of sleeping. People with narcolepsy can fall asleep very easily and very quickly, but they go through the sleep cycle a little differently from everyone else. Narcoleptics jump into the dream phase of sleep almost immediately. Everyone else goes though a couple of phases of deeper and deeper sleep and then dream. This cycle phase 1 to REM sleep is repeated throughout the night and it gets longer each time. So people get their most restful and helpful sleep in the stage before dreaming and also in the last and longest cycle before waking. Narcolepsy cause people like me to skip the restful phase in favor of dream sleep. I have spectacular dreams, but boy am I tired all the time. The treatment is pills that make you more alert, but there is no real cure for it.

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