in order to cheer up tea and coffee, student andrei morostsev needs to drink not cups, but liters; her, in the sense of not a spy, but a person with irresistible drowsiness. the diagnosis is idiopathic hypersomnia, which is when a person literally falls asleep while walking. your head feels like it’s filled with lead, your neck becomes weak, you fall asleep, and sometimes lectures, seminars, coursework become simply torture. i forced to sleep about 12 hours every day in order to at least keep himself 70 percent from a normal person. unlike a sleep-deprived or tired person, a patient with idiopathic hypersomnia wants to sleep every day, regardless of how much time he spends sleeping at night. this is a disease. very rare and little studied, it can only be diagnosed using special polysomnograph equipment. we put many, many sensors on the patient that record the bioelectrical activity of the brain and evaluate respiratory flows, the presence of snoring, pauses in breathing during sleep. it is clear that sleep medicine is almost undeveloped in the regions, so there are problems with diagn