I have narcolepsy, so I was surprised to hear people describe this song in terms of drug addictions or alcoholism. There is nothing symbolic about the imagery in this song, narcoleptic people really do have experiences like those described, though it's not really fair to call the song "narcolepsy" since it is actually describing only one symptom of the disease: sleep paralysis. While the paralysis is not an unusual experience, most adults will go through it once or twice in a lifetime, narcoleptic people will experience this sleeping death on a daily basis, complete with hallucinations, in addition to all the other things that come with narcolepsy- excessive sleepiness at night, severe insomnia at night, cataplexy, depression, as well as lucid dreams, nightmares and (as I experienced just last night) night terrors.
It's a little weird though... I also read a lot of Russian novelists. Dostoevsy had epilepsy, a disease similar to narcolespy. As a result, many of his characters suffer from (and are effected by) that disease.
See I have narcolepsy too... And like pasketanki said, us narcoleptics experience a thing called Hypnogogic Hallucinations... your Hypnogogic state is right before you fall asleep, as you're still dozing off, and narcoleptics go into REM sleep before they are even asleep, so we dream, but hallucinate our dreams as we try to stay awake, this happens to me alot when Im taking notes, I'll hallucinate that I'm perfectly awake and everything, and look like I'm awake and functioning, but once I black out for not even a half a second and wake up, there's nothing but lines and jibberish...
See I have narcolepsy too... And like pasketanki said, us narcoleptics experience a thing called Hypnogogic Hallucinations... your Hypnogogic state is right before you fall asleep, as you're still dozing off, and narcoleptics go into REM sleep before they are even asleep, so we dream, but hallucinate our dreams as we try to stay awake, this happens to me alot when Im taking notes, I'll hallucinate that I'm perfectly awake and everything, and look like I'm awake and functioning, but once I black out for not even a half a second and wake up, there's nothing but lines and jibberish all over my paper...
I have narcolepsy, so I was surprised to hear people describe this song in terms of drug addictions or alcoholism. There is nothing symbolic about the imagery in this song, narcoleptic people really do have experiences like those described, though it's not really fair to call the song "narcolepsy" since it is actually describing only one symptom of the disease: sleep paralysis. While the paralysis is not an unusual experience, most adults will go through it once or twice in a lifetime, narcoleptic people will experience this sleeping death on a daily basis, complete with hallucinations, in addition to all the other things that come with narcolepsy- excessive sleepiness at night, severe insomnia at night, cataplexy, depression, as well as lucid dreams, nightmares and (as I experienced just last night) night terrors.
It's a little weird though... I also read a lot of Russian novelists. Dostoevsy had epilepsy, a disease similar to narcolespy. As a result, many of his characters suffer from (and are effected by) that disease.
See I have narcolepsy too... And like pasketanki said, us narcoleptics experience a thing called Hypnogogic Hallucinations... your Hypnogogic state is right before you fall asleep, as you're still dozing off, and narcoleptics go into REM sleep before they are even asleep, so we dream, but hallucinate our dreams as we try to stay awake, this happens to me alot when Im taking notes, I'll hallucinate that I'm perfectly awake and everything, and look like I'm awake and functioning, but once I black out for not even a half a second and wake up, there's nothing but lines and jibberish...
See I have narcolepsy too... And like pasketanki said, us narcoleptics experience a thing called Hypnogogic Hallucinations... your Hypnogogic state is right before you fall asleep, as you're still dozing off, and narcoleptics go into REM sleep before they are even asleep, so we dream, but hallucinate our dreams as we try to stay awake, this happens to me alot when Im taking notes, I'll hallucinate that I'm perfectly awake and everything, and look like I'm awake and functioning, but once I black out for not even a half a second and wake up, there's nothing but lines and jibberish all over my paper...