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Here are the medical terms of common sleep disorders and their definitions:

Insomnia is the most common sleep disorder. It is the difficulty of falling asleep or sleeplessness. Hypersomnia is the recurring episodes of excessive sleepiness at day time or prolonged nighttime sleep. Narcolepsy is the sleep attack. It is a condition in which a person falls asleep at inappropriate times, such as at school or at work.

Parasomnias is a wide variety of sleep disorders characterized by abnormal movements, behaviors, dreams, emotions, apprehensions and arousal. The common parasomnias include somnambulism or sleep walking, soliloquy is the sleep talking, bruxism or grinding of the teeth accompanied by clenching of the jaw, nocturnal erection or arousal from sleep caused by wet dreams and only occur while the person is asleep, nocturnal enuresis is the medical term for bed wetting. It is the involuntary urination while asleep and very common among children due to developmental delay or a family history of the condition, and night Terrors characterized by extreme terror and inability to reattain full consciousness also known as bad dreams. The person is hard to awaken and waking is usually accompanied by gasping, screaming or moaning.

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