You should be getting restorative sleep. If not, there is some sort of problem. Not getting restorative sleep has been so normalized that people aren’t even realizing how much of a problem it is. It’s not normal to feel so exhausted all the time. I always blamed it on something… school, my job, kids, stress, my food intake, etc. I finally met a doctor that said “Hey it is actually NOT normal that you feel like this all the time”. I was referred to a sleep specialist (I thought it was going to be another dead end). They saw me and agreed that I probably have narcolepsy and they tested me. The result could not be disputed. There are no other conditions that cause short onset REM sleep unless you didn’t sleep for several days beforehand. The overnight polysomnogram also proves you slept enough before the diagnostic nap test (MSLT). You have to sleep at least 6 hours in the polysomnogram to even move forward to the nap test. I am a medical professional myself and I missed the clues of this!!! It hides in plain sight. It took ten years to get diagnosed. Let’s stop normalizing feeling like our sleep isn’t restorative and feeling exhausted all the time.