One of the good - know sleep disorder is narcolepsy , a serious medical experimental condition that causes sufferers to be suddenly drown by feeling of fatigue . But narcolepsy symptom also admit abnormal sequence of " dreaming sleep,“ which are similar to hallucinations , and attack of " cataplexy,“ in which a person loses restraint of certain muscles for a few seconds at a time .
One in every 2,000 Americans has narcolepsy . Here are a two you may have heard of .
Believe it or not , Harriet Tubmanwas a narcoleptic . The African - American abolitionist who freed hundreds of slaves in pre - Civil War America is famous for her strength of will , but less roll in the hay for her impuissance for sleep . As a 12 - year - old girl in Maryland , Tubman invite a serious blow to the fountainhead from her striver master . She never amply recovered , and the injury was said to cause her intermittent round of narcolepsy from which she endure for the ease of her life .
But if Ickes was bitter about his sleep disorderliness , he certainly could n’t pick it on his cistron . Ickes ' founding father , Harold LeClair Ickes , was also an advisor to a President of the United States , Franklin D. Roosevelt , and a member of his cabinet . But unlike the young Ickes , Harold LeClair was a life - recollective insomniac , never known to get more than three or four hour at a metre .
More on sleep : Sleeping On The Job , Five Disorders That Make For Scary Sleeping , Should You ignite A Sleepwalker ?
[ " The Sandman Cometh " was originally printed inmental_flossmagazine , loudness 3 , offspring 1 . ]
