I first heard about it from my neighbor who kept kicking his wife in bed. Not on purpose. He just couldn’t keep still after about ten at night. He’d get up, walk around, sit back down, and stand again. Drove her mad. Drove him madder. At first I thought it…

You wake up, reach for your phone or even just glance at your wrist, and before you’ve had that tiny sip of water, you already get a percentage number about how well you “supposedly” slept. Sleep tracking is pretty normal now, like it’s just another app notification, and a lot…

Last Tuesday I stood in my kitchen for about ten minutes trying to decide what to have for lunch. Ten minutes. I had bread, eggs, and half an avocado. It’s not complicated. But my head was full. Work emails, a dentist appointment I’d forgotten to book something; my sister said…

So a few months back, my cousin fell asleep. Standing up. In the middle of telling me about her weekend. Not an “oh, I’m tired” kind of drift, more like gone. Thirty seconds later, back, like nothing happened. That was the first time I actually looked up what narcolepsy is,…