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like I said before just like everything else it seems it comes and goes to the point where it really doesn't warrant a diagnosis.
Aside from the hallucinations I didn't really want to get in depth about other stuff but YES I have had sleep episodes where it is pretty much physically impossible to avoid sleep. Literally just sitting in class and all of a sudden BAM. If I try to keep my eyes open I got double vision, tried to stay sitting up straight and I had to keep catching myself so I didn't fall out of my chair, I tried my best to pay attention however after maybe a few minutes it's as if sounds distorted and it was torturous. I usually ended giving up a minute or two before the class ended. It only happened at this specific time for about a year. The following year it started happening again but much earlier in the morning however I never got that far into sleep mode since my teacher for that class was very... stimulating and was really strict about people falling asleep in her class (a very awesome teacher though) It's probably the equivalent of trying to sleep with an alarm clock next to your head.
After I graduated they really didn't happen at all but then again my entire sleep schedule is way out of whack so for all I know it could.
Cataplexy is more difficult because I don't think it's "paralyzation by muscle weakness" so much as "paralyzation by almost all of the muscles involved freezing up." which pretty much if I'm hysterical whether it's out of laughter or tears.
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