I found out I had sleep apnea mostly due to coincidence. Eventually I got jaw surgery to fix it, but there is a surprising anecdote:
Shortly after I started using a CPAP, at a networking event I met someone who worked at a mental health clinic, and he told me that many of their patients with schizophrenia had a pressure setting of 18 or 19 bars. Apparently disturbed sleep can cause some rather severe mental illness.
I was at 16 bars at the time. (I no longer use a CPAP post surgery.) About a year prior, there were a few times that I wondered if something actually happened, or if I was misremembering a dream.
It makes me wonder if some severe forms of sleep apnea can make dream context confusing enough that it's hard to bucket memories between dreams and actual events?
Late stage untreated UARS is similar to a catatonic existence. I think Christian Guilleminault described this population in his research. Thankfully even my experience did not get to this point
Shortly after I started using a CPAP, at a networking event I met someone who worked at a mental health clinic, and he told me that many of their patients with schizophrenia had a pressure setting of 18 or 19 bars. Apparently disturbed sleep can cause some rather severe mental illness.
I was at 16 bars at the time. (I no longer use a CPAP post surgery.) About a year prior, there were a few times that I wondered if something actually happened, or if I was misremembering a dream.
It makes me wonder if some severe forms of sleep apnea can make dream context confusing enough that it's hard to bucket memories between dreams and actual events?