Narcoleptic Christmas
Twenty years ago, when Mali Einen was 24, her baby daughter said something funny and within seconds Einen's muscles went limp and she collapsed into the Christmas tree. That's when she discovered she was narcoleptic. It turns out, narcolepsy is a lot different from what we think it is. When Einen fell down, she hadn't suddenly fallen asleep--she was actually wide awake and her body had just become temporarily paralyzed. And the whole episode was triggered by extreme joy. Aired on Weekend America, 12.23.06.

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