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And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by sleep attacks

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they're your little brother's favorite kind of friend [Little brother holds pillow beside sleeping brother]

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okay here's today's question people prone to sleep attacks during the day

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either randomly or after increased arousal suffer from what condition and

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here the potential answers really means alright well we know that it

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can sometimes be tempting to drift off when your teacher is knee-deep in a [Boy sleeping in class]

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lengthy monotonous lecture but this question is referring to something much

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more serious than that imagine falling asleep while driving terrifying right [Man asleep while driving]

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that's a real condition but which one is it well insomnia is the sleep disorder

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characterized by the difficulty to fall or stay asleep somebody with insomnia

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would probably be pretty stoked to receive the occasional sleep attack so

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it's not be have a seat REM sleep behavior disorder well those who suffer [Man laying in bed]

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from this condition quite literally act out their dreams often moving their

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limbs shouting hitting or even punching well [Man hits man while sleeping]

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asleep sure it's kind of a sleep attack but not the kind we're looking for so

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that eliminates the sleep apnea describes a disorder in which the

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sufferer has pauses in breathing or very shallow and infrequent breaths while

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asleep the individual will often have no trouble breathing while awake but the [Man reading]

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disturbance to their sleep pattern can cause fatigue throughout the day now

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like that but his fatigue wouldn't be classified as a sleep attack so we'll

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let the ego sleep bruxism which describes the clenching and grinding of [Man grinding teeth while sleeping]

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teeth during sleep is one of the most common sleep disorders up to 8% of

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adults suffer from it and some studies have shown that nearly a third of

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children have been observed doing it by their parents it can cause headaches

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damaged teeth jaw pain and joint disorders which are all really terrible

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symptoms that we don't recommend but sleep attacks they ain't the answer

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we're looking for is a narcolepsy which is characterized by excessive sleepiness

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and yes sleep attack now that we enter that question it's time to ask another [Children in classroom]

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are yawns actually contagious [Boy yawns in class]

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did you catch that

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