**COPYRIGHT MUSIC**<br /><br />A woman has a rare 'Sleeping Beauty' condition which sees her snooze every four hours - forcing her to nap in nightclubs and even during her grandma's funeral.<br /><br />Justice Collins, 28, has to take up to six naps a day due to the rare disorder called narcolepsy - which causes periods of involuntary sleep.<br /><br />She was diagnosed aged 18 after years of struggling to stay awake in school and nodding off during class.<br /><br />Justice would try everything to stay awake including "eating" or "pinching herself" but says nothing could fight off the tiredness.<br /><br />The chronic sleep condition has seen Justice fall asleep in some unusual places including courtside at basketball games and while on a school trip to the former prison Alcatraz Island, San Francisco.<br /><br />Over the years she has learnt to deal with her condition and said the "secret" to living with it is rigorous planning and making time for naps.<br /><br />Justice, a communications coordinator at Heartland Coca Cola, from Kansas City, Missouri, US, said: “Virtually any place you can think of, I’ve fallen asleep there.<br /><br />“At the club, courtside at the basketball game, and even at my grandma’s funeral.<br /><br />"I ask my friends to record whenever I pass out randomly - the compilations are hilarious.<br /><br />"Loud blaring music and the fog horn from the ferry wouldn't stir me.<br /><br />“Once I’m asleep there’s no point in waking me up.”<br /><br />Although she had always shown signs of her condition, it only first became noticeable when she was 17, and she was regularly nodding off during classes in high school.<br /><br />But her excessive sleepiness started to become a problem when teachers began taking points off her grade for participation.<br /><br />Justice said: “At first, I thought I was just a typical teenager that enjoyed a nap.<br /><br />"I tried eating, pinching myself, but nothing would work."<br /><br />Her concerned parents, Nancy Collins, 59, a family reunification supervisor and Michael Collins, 67, a retired teacher, took Justice to an overnight sleep study in 2013. At NKCH Diagnostic Sleep Center, doctors performed a multiple sleep latency test (MSLT), which measures excessive daytime sleepiness.<br /><br />The tests concluded that Justice had narcolepsy - which means her brain can’t regulate her sleep cycles, preventing a her from choosing when to wake or sleep.<br /><br />Justice can’t remember the last time she slept through the night and never knows how long she's nodded off for when she wakes up.<br /><br />“I was happy when I was diagnosed, because it finally explained what was happening," she said.<br /><br />“Google tells you what it is, but not how to deal with it.<br /><br />“People asked me how I’d keep a job, so there were lots of difficult unknown things to consider.<br /><br />“But I could finally properly adapt to my condition and take control over my life.”<br /><br />Growing-up, Justice never let the sleep disorder hold her back, and she takes part in all the same activities her friends do.<br /><br />But she does have to plan her days around having naps or accept that she might randomly pass out.
