The paradox being that when people stop trying so hard, they find it easier to fall asleep.

这种方法所体现出的“矛盾之处”在于当人们不再努力让自己入睡时，他们反而会更容易入睡。

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But the worst thing is when people see someone with narcolepsy fall asleep. They simply assume that they're lazy.

但是最可恶的是当他人看到一些嗜睡症患者打瞌睡时就简单地认为他们太懒了。

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People with narcolepsy will suddenly fall asleep when they should be awake.

患者同正常睡眠状态的人一样可以被突然唤醒。

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He is also developing light-delivering goggles that are supposed to help people reset the circadian rhythms that govern when they nod off and wake up, so they fall asleep faster and stay asleep longer.

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All I did when they visited was cry in sympathy for their worry over me, or fall asleep, but after they left I missed them.

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They were confident it was the right way to do it, despite an utter absence of evidence. (He later showed patients generally perceive less pain if bandages are removed slowly.) When patients exhausted their daily morphine rations, sometimes nurses would give them placebo injections and they would quickly fall asleep.

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