10 Lesser Known Sleep Disorders You Might Not Know About
Video Overview & Insights
You might have heard of insomnia or hypersomnia from symptoms of depression. But have you heard about the other following sleep disorders? Here's a list of what we cover: sleep related eating disorder, nocturnal driving disorder, somniloquy, sexsomnia, REM sleep behaviour disorder, exploding head syndrome, Kleine-leving syndrome, narcolepsy, nightmare disorder, and restless legs syndrome.
Who else is awake when they should be sleeping right now? Comment below guilty birds.
Which of these have you personally experienced?
Sleep disorders, also known as parasomnias, happen when people are waking up, falling asleep, or sleeping. These disorders vary between people and most don’t remember what they did when they wake up. Sleep disorders can occur during different sleep stages, in all sexes, and in all ages
I have never had any of these.disorders before
Disclaimer: Do not use this video to self diagnose. If you are experiencing any of these, know that you are not alone.
#insomia #sexomnia
I have all of them just waiting to see between the last two either have Klein loving or narcolepsy 😅and btw im only awake rn because of meds thankfully 😊
Writer: Michelle Gaston
Script Editor: Isadora Ho
Great video! This is exactly what I needed to hear. I'm also passionate about this, so I've created a new channel with gentle sleep stories 📖 to help quiet a racing mind. Hoping it can be a helpful resource for this community. 🙏
Script Manager: Kelly Soong
VO: Amanda Silvera
someone said i said mona lisa in my sleep once
Storyboarder: Yi Lin
Music & Sound Design: Urban Goose Studios
Oh I love your voice
Animator: Marissa Rose
YouTube manager: Cindy Cheong
I HAVE EXPLODING HEAD SYNDROME AT 10 YEARS OLD
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I have several sleep disorders. Several. Some havent happened in awhile or were worse wgen i was younger. Others gave gotten worse has ive gotten older. I cant think of the word but it comes before "rhythm". Arcadiam, cicadiam, you know what i mean. but i baisicly dont have one of those. I get the exploading head syndrome. But not as frequent as it used to be. I definitely have sleep paralysis. Which leads to night terrors on a bad night and lucid dreaming or astro projecting on a good night. Or afternoon or morning, when everit is ive actually gotten to sleep. I get severe insomnia. Having paralysis and night terrors makes me afraid to go to sleep at night. I have to have a night light. But its hard to sleep with the light on so i put something over my eyes i can rip off easily when something scares me. Which is everything. Ive dreamnt i was getting ready for school or work only to find out i was still asleep. Thats one that was worse when i was younger. Ive always had to plan everything for late afternoon, take night classes, and tale thenigjt shift because i litteraly cannot function in the morning. Im so used to my backwards rhythm life. Even if it is somewhat normal for a little while. If i havet set an alarm because i have something to do in the morning. I will not fall asleep until an hour or less before the alarm is set to go off. But when i am able to fall asleep, i can sleep. Once every two or three months my body will just give out and i can sleep for like 15 plus hours and nothing, no one can wake me up. Its all destroyed my life. Oh yeah, we wont talk about restless leg syndrome. Except to say a lot of cases are due to withdrawl or detoxing.
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michael drevnak
3:10 oop I might have this then.. 3:40 also might have this...but my sleep schedule is crazy from editing and such..
Gregory Dees
Marikho Yu
Nightmare disorder is an interesting case, for me I have a phase where nightmares are frequent and then they don’t happen, but for other people I’ve heard it’s way for frequent for them. No it’s not normal nightmares, they’re pretty uh… extreme.
Debra Walser
Maritza Mar
i used to sleep walk when i was younger and i have always talked in my sleep but i always lucid dream so i can hear what i’m saying i also always have nightmares it’s awful
Avi
Sammi
I talk in my sleep, sleep walk(randomly), and I also have Tourett's, so i badly tic in my sleep, like scratching myself uncontrollably, and I hit either the wall or myself. Ive been told this by my parents.
Krisztina Sihelnik
David Anthony Burton
There is another sleep disorder that I think isn't really talk about its card Non -24
Mikako Kimura
Max E Struck
i have the exploding head syndrome. i hate it it scares me , luckly it doesint happen that often but its not fun when it does. today i got jumpscared by a sound 2x.
A Filthy Lot
Andrew D
Can you make a video about hypersomnia?
Isaiah Hollingsworth
Sofya Khlebnikova
As a person with restless leg syndrome, your description of it is on point ❤
Андрей Леонтьев
Raymond Din
Hi please help
I'm 26 years old guy who gone through major depression and anxiety last year. My doctor prescribed me "Remeron 15 mg+ sertraline 50 mg+ Clopramin 25.
I'm taking these medication
Note that before take those medication also dream everynight. I have been facing this for 1.5 years everything okay except Sleep. Cause i have meaningless dream every night which made me tired and effect my temper.
And day time if i feel sleepy i go to bed but i can not sleep. I get shivering in my body and wake up.
How to solve this please help.
Rómulo Romero
Melissa Gervais
I've had Nightmare Disorder sense i was a Kid and it's very intreating only when people ask about your dreams. It's very interesting when you explain the situation to others.
Shilpa Baiju Prasad
The Rising Rainbow
When I was 6 or 7 years old I would wake up and get asked by my mom why I was laughing last night
Ashley Freitas
Heather Kelly
Every time i sleep i Just Turn Others sides
Bo Holbo Rasmussen
Isaac Aguilar
Nightmare disorder is the worst. Dreamed I choked up half a lung and was dying alone in a field last night. Worst thing about it is doctors either can't or won't prescribe medication that will reduce/get rid of the nightmares. When you have a nightmare disorder, rest is a luxury that is infrequent. I have nightmares inside nightmares inside nightmares. I have been in post-apocalyptic war zones having to find cover long enough to doze, other times I live entire lifetimes only to be jarringly thrown back into my true life and people I have created in my mind, parents, siblings and children are just gone. Its hard to keep going sometimes.
Jony Sun
Kearny Li
Wow Sleep driving??
M Johnson
Mburgher
Apparently, I was reciting a knitting pattern in my sleep once.
CHAN HANJO
Fabian
Me at 6am: Dont say anything let me look at the roof..UNTIL NEXT WEEK
William Goodman
Muhammad Irfan
I'm Narcoleptic,so is my Dad ,and my mom but to a Lesser degree than my dad and I, accord to my parents sometimes I talk in my sleep (they've witnessed it , they told me that I went from laying down on my sitting bolt up right, where I sleeping and said reference a line the British sitcom Black Adder , I said according to them "Baldrick, I have a cunning plan." Then I proceed to lie back down as nothing happened . I find this hilarious.
Mybeautyfullmess
Freddie James
I talk in my sleep and I’ve always done it. I didn’t realize how much I talked in my sleep until I moved in with my partner. Shits wild tbh cause he’ll text me the stuff I say
Miranda Sharp
Chelsea cook
sexsomnia.yes
M Ash
Martin Jimenez Romero
Untill I was 10 years old I couldn't remember any positiv dreams, and was afraid of sleeping bc my nightmares would be so intense
Gabriel Lopez-Corbella
Eric
I have Restless legs syndrome and it really sucks
Alexis Juarez
Deborah Dewar
Do you have problems with your sleep?
Yes. I am not asleep.
Jmiranda3105
Ivan Montes
sexsomnia
TINA LEE
Carly Zhu
I didnt know that there were names for most of this stuff but ive experienced most of them. I mostly have sleep paralysis sleep talking and sleep walking but i have always had sleep issues. I started researching it since i had a baby knowing how hereditary these are, i got it from my dad. All of this is so interesting
Bryan Molina
Jason Youngberg
i have somniliquy
Zachary Auciello
Jeremiah Scepaniak
POV: you wake up at 3AM because you finally broke out of a hellish nightmare that your soul keeps getting pulled out of your body and you keep desperately fighting to wake up but once you think you are awake, you are still in a dream. Yeah i hate when that happens
Leo Buzalsky
Sachin Shenoy
Me trying to sleep:
My brain: how about i wait until the very last second to annoy you with the sound of crashing cymbals
I have exploding head syndrome and I normally hear cymbals repetitively crashing together it’s super annoying
Frenda Yeung
Rain's Dollies
I've been having sleep problems for several years, where I go to bed at the regular hour, (let's say 10:00), and then inexplicably, I wake up at 1-3 AM for seemingly no reason. And then I cannot fall back asleep until it's nearly 6-8. Then I sleep till it's 12 or 2 in the afternoon.
My parents think it's phone and wifi related, but I've had this issue without my phone or wifi for weeks at some periods, and the problem persists. How can I fix or at least know what I have, because my parents are stripping everything away from me because of it. I need help
James Sherman
Howisthedoc
can you do a video about somniloquy ? i was on asleepover and my freind started screaming in her sleep , everyone else with me was woried about her . she was cursing and screaming at her family members and crying . when she woke up she said that it happens alot . please help me, i wanna fnd a way to help her . please make a video about it and how you can stop it
Noora Althani
Kiano Turner
Anyone spit in their sleep?
Mary Elizabeth Callaway
Kate Kornblum
I have nightmare disorder, I don't always wake up during my sleep but I always feel bad for the entire day due to the horrible things I see during my sleep.
For the restless legs syndrom, I experienced it due to a medication named Abilify, used for mood regulation. It's a well-known secondary effect of this medication.
ALVAN BURNETT
Angie
I’ve defo got NIGHTMARE SYNDROME and RESTLESS LEG SYNDROME and it’s horrible. I just want to get a good nights sleep. (9 & 10)
Jeannine Henderson-Lebbie
Sara Golding
I experienced the Nightmare disorder for about 7 years? I would always have the same or similar nightmare every Halloween. It made me very anxious to go anywhere and I never felt safe in my own home for weeks. I couldn’t distinguish sometimes reality from the dream. I was very paranoid during my episodes. Until finally they’d just go away. Only to return again next year.
Eventually it got so bad one night that I was awake sobbing at night because I couldn’t go back to sleep without reentering the nightmare. I cried myself to sleep and since that night I’ve never had those nightmares again.
All I remember before falling asleep was this feeling of serenity and calmness. Like a baby bird being covered by the wings of its parent. It was so odd feeling, but I’m glad the nightmares are finally gone.
Alina Oßwald
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I've had nightmares my whole life. Pretty well every night.
They don't really wake me up fully from sleep anymore.
But I wonder if they're preventing me from getting a restful sleep. I'm always tired when I wake up, often times more tired until I can recall the dream and try to work through it.
Every little bit helps.
i have some of these . i feel annoyed when i do them due to the inconveniences and effects it can have on others
More User Perspectives
I have nightmare disorder. It's not fun. And most people brush it off as I'm complaining about nothing, but they have no idea what having nightmares everytime one closes ones eyes is like. They range from waking up in a cold sweat to waking up screaming. The other night I was thrashing and actually threw out my back and bruised myself in several places. My partner sleeps in a different room when we are home together and perfers night work. He finds it absolutely heartbreaking to see me in this state. It's been happening forever. When I was kid my dad would yell at me and both my parents were convinced I was doing it for attention.
@DamianMcMillan383For sake of interesting series of events and story to tell, out of this list nightmare disorder paired with many things, but I'll elaborate
I have C-PTSD and severe sleep apnea, I've always had common nightmares but the last couple years I'd have sleep paralysis, night terrors, and multiple different or reoccurring nightmares in one night, at one point having 5 nightmares in a row all of which I woke up in physical distress, I had so many nightmares and experienced sleep paralysis fairly often (about once a month or every other month) that I developed somniphobia, and insomnia. My body would be physically exhausted but I'd keep moving until I'd just break into sleep, I've been awake for more than 24 hours on multiple occasions and atleast been awake for more than 36 hours atleast twice, I also have psychosis, and I'd experience tactile hallucinations especially when I was sleep deprived, specifically feeling like there was bugs crawling all over me, specifically small ants, where I felt like I had to shake them off, fast forward, the only thing that helps me sleep now, is streaming horror gameplays, cause it's hard for me to have nightmares or anxiety about going to sleep or while sleeping when I can hear someone going through a scary story, but also joking, or reviewing it in the background, aswell as, it's a video that I can change if I really don't like it, I can just pick another, unlike nightmares where it's kind of hard to pick, so if I'm stuck dreaming or feeling like I might dream about it, I'll just change it to something I'm more familiar with. I have at points gotten very physically ill attempting to sleep in new environments that weren't the one I was decently used to aswell, I ended up throwing up and getting headaches cause my body just couldn't handle the change of environment
I watched this video because i thought it might mention narcolepsy as someone with this disorder it us refreshing to see it somewhere other than as a joke in a show so thank you 🥰
@Tillies_craftsHi don't know how relevant my comment is I think I have sleeping disorder it's very similar to sleep paralysis but isn't I struggle to fall asleep but when I do I can't hear anything or feel anything I am talking about screaming kids water being poured on or being shaken I can't feel anything but I seem to open my eyes respond but I will have no recollection of doing such and I go straight back to sleep afterwards like nothing ever happened it's been like this for years and I don't even remember having a single dream or know what dreams are or like
@salminanqokwe5084Listening to calming peaceful music can help relieve insomnia for some https://youtu.be/8hJIXbDrZZ8
@thehealingofsound2395I don't know what I have and if it's a disorder kr what, but it's hard to fall asleep, stay asleep, and I have nightmares a lot when I do sleep, when I dont have nightmares my dreams are extremely weird
@ravenclawallday6213POV you haven’t slept properly in ages so your watching this and wondering what’s going on
@ellabellq1102