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Carcalepsy

The act of falling asleep, usually within minutes and in the passenger or backseat, during a car trip. It is especially prevalent among those promising to navigate.
Mom gets carcalepsy on the way home from Grandma's every Sunday, but she always wakes up when we try to change the radio station.
Carcalepsy by amsterdandi October 25, 2008

Cataleptical

In a state in which conscienceness and feeling are lost in which the body assumes a death-like rigidity.

-from "The Fall of the House of Usher"
A settled apathy; a gradual wasting away of a person and frequent although transient affections of a partially cataleptical character worthy unusual diagnosis.

-from "The Fall of the House of Usher"
Cataleptical by theanubishomosapien September 8, 2010

cataleptic 

The state of cats on catnip. You could call it "nipped out" but that probably has other definitions...
Hon, get the camera. Milo's all cataleptic in that grocery bag and he can't get out.

acatalepsy 

Origin: Greek
The impossibility of comprehending the universe.
In philosophy, is the incomprehensibleness, or the impossibility of comprehending.
The universe is acatalepsy.
acatalepsy by yols February 19, 2021

cataleptic 

"I am <em>cataleptic</em> with anticipation"
cataleptic by T W January 5, 2005

Carolepsy 

When someone falls asleep upon entering a vehicle
"he always falls sleep when were driving somewhere I think he has carolepsy'
Carolepsy by Bluffingcloud August 16, 2017