narcolepsy

(n) a chronic and usually hereditary sleep disorder in which the person affected will suffer spontaneous bouts of sleep (or "sleep attacks") during the day. Symptoms include: extreme sleepiness, typically followed by sleep attacks and last for fifteen minutes; dream-like hallucinations; sleep paralysis, where you cannot move when you start to fall asleep or just after you wake up; and cataplexy, which is an abrupt loss of muscle tone (basically, your muscles "fail you").

The disorder is not fatal, but can be depending on the situation you find yourself having a sleep episode. There is no cure for narcolepsy at the moment.

For more detailed information on narcolepsy, visit a medical site.

by MarigoldP July 18, 2012

movie narcolepsy

condition in which movies put one instantaniously to sleep

Person 1: what kind of movies do you like?
Person 2: Dude, I have movie narcolepsy

by Ronni* December 24, 2008

narcolepelepsy

A disease that causes a person to fall apart at night while having an epileptic seizure.

Jim: "What happened to your arm, Dave? Where did it go?"

Dave: "Well, last night, my wife was blinking a flashlight off and on in bed. I fell asleep and must have a narcolelptic seizure."

Jim: "What the hell is that?"

Dave: "Narcolepelepsy. Don't screw with me. I'm missing an arm."

by connorsji September 4, 2009

drinking narcolepsy

Drinking Narcolepsy is a chronic neurological disorder induced by alcohol consumption and characterized by overwhelming daytime drowsiness and sudden attacks of sleep. If the urge becomes overwhelming, patients fall asleep for periods lasting from a few minutes to several hours and fall asleep at inappropriate times and places such as bars and restaurants. Drinking Narcolepsy should not be confused with passing out as a Drinking Narcolep will fall asleep, rally, drink some more, only to fall asleep again. This cycle is repeated throughout the day and into the evening.

Tara's drinking narcolepsy was out of control up at Lutsen. She drank and snowboarded all day, fell asleep on the chairlift, fell asleep after snowboarding, fell asleep after hottubbing, and fell asleep in the restaurant.

by spacecadet18 February 3, 2009

Narcolepsied

When someone suddenly passes out randomly while doing something, usually in a abrupt and random matter that is usually dangerous and potentially life threatening.

*everyone watching movie, laughing*
Friend 1 - "Hey Jason, did you see that?"
Jason - ZZzzZZzz *snore*
Everyone - "WTF, he was just awake a second ago?!"
Friend 1 - "Fuck, he must've narcolepsied again. That shit is going to happen when he's driving one day and he's going to crash and die"

by T. Durka January 1, 2011

narcoleptic

nar·co·lep·sy( P ) (närk-lps)
n. pl. nar·co·lep·sies

A disorder characterized by sudden and uncontrollable, though often brief, attacks of deep sleep, sometimes accompanied by paralysis and hallucinations.

charlie asked me if you were narcoleptic - he told me something similar to that cause you just stopped talking all of a sudden and then started back up i guess you must have woken back up.

by Hey-Soos! (pronounce it) June 13, 2005

Cinematic Narcolepsy

The chronic involuntary sleep condition induced by viewing of movies, particularly those shown on a large screen.

Had I known my date had cinematic narcolepsy, I wouldn't have paid for her to take a nine-dollar nap.

by SolarS2 February 12, 2009