I too had sleep paralysis, 3 times upon waking up and 2 while trying to fall asleep. Moreover 3 days ago I had my first hypnagogic auditory hallucination. Basic

I too had sleep paralysis, 3 times upon waking up and 2 while trying to fall asleep. Moreover 3 days ago I had my first hypnagogic auditory hallucination. Basically I have heard a guy talking something about two candidates for US presidency (even though I don't live in the USA and I am not an American) and then sound of shooting shotgun. At first I was scared that maybe I got schizophrenia, but after reading a bit I have found out that it is sort of like sleep paralysis, at least in too happens among people who experience sleep paralysis. One possibility is maybe I am slowly developing narcolepsy, because both sleep paralysis and these hypnagogic hallucinations are symptoms of it. I sometimes feel sort of sleepy especially around 4 pm and I usually just take some coffeine. I don't know if I have cataplexy, certainly not the severe form, but I think that I get weakness in the knees under influence of strong emotions which according to internet is basically mild cataplexy. I know that my mother has this weakness too and she is always tired so there could be a genetic link. As interesting trivia it seems like narcolepsy is an autoimmune illness that works by killing neurons producing hypocretin which is neuropeptide responsible for regulation of sleep and wakefulness, and for hunger management. There are only about 100k - 200k hypocretin producing neurons, while brain has orders of magnitude more neurons. That I find interesting, because it seems like this autoimmune process is very selective for these hypocretin producing neurons, cause so far it seems like people with narcolepsy don't have similar cognitive deficits as people with other autoimmune illnesses that kill neurons.