i have many! mmm... well, i was working as a special needs teaching assistant, supporting a child with sever autism and physical disabilities. I fell asleep in class in the middle of doing 'cutting and sticking' with glue all over my hair and some hair missing! most dangerous?- in a wine bar, everyone (including me) thought id been drugged or something, ambulance came etc... severe cataplexy left me unable to communicate the problem, that i could hear everything, just cant respond!

Most dangerous for me was in a parking lot in a bad neighborhood, I just got in my car and fell asleep with my keys in the ignition and of course doors unlocked. 2 hrs. later police woke me up and asked me if I had been drinking:) Denice

YES! I have been fired from 2 jobs because I fell asleep and couldnt communicate or had catalepsy! It was before I got dx. I expect my provigil and adderal to stop this but it dosent completely.
I think my provigil is wearing out. Does anyonme know anything about this? Girlwithpearl.

This was several years ago and I had no idea that I might have narcolepsy. I was driving on a two lane highway. I got really sleepy and all of a sudden I jerked awake and I was in the other lane (I was going east, I woke up in the west-bound lane). Thank God there were no cars coming. Scared the living daylights out of me.

I haven't been diagnosed yet...I'm going to have a sleep study this coming Thursday (all night) and then on Friday (3 to 5 naps) to check REM, etc.

Yeah I've almost crashed on the highway too, but fortunately never ended up in the other lane. I did end up across the street through oncoming traffic on a state road though...I woke up to a car horn and my truck going through a snow bank. Thank god no one was hurt.

Head on collission in 1996. I was only diagnosed this year but looking back I'm sure I have had N for most of my life. I read somewhere that the average gap between onset and diagnosis is twelve years. It is a pain to get tested and most people will just brush off the tiredness to busy life that we all have these days!!

It wasn't dangerous, but I blacked out in a Veteran's Hospital in Sacramento while waiting for a friend to be seen. Security threw me out - threatened to arrest me, bla, bla, bla. If I hadn't been so F-ing tired I would've kicked the crap out of the guard. Instead I went to the hospitals front entrance and told the rent-a-cop I'd be sleeping on the bench next to the front door, and told him to call the cops. He didn't.