Joe Narcoleptic and the Movies

So I went to go see GI Joe: Retaliation tonight with the family, thinking it would be just another fun movie with explosions and kicking of large amounts of butt. As with many things, I was wrong.

There is a prison in this movie, where scientists have engineered a drug that puts the body into the same paralysis experienced during REM sleep, leaving the victim conscious but unable to move.

Gee, does that sound familiar to anyone? The thing that kills me is that the writers probably thought they had just come up with one of the most terrifying ideas for a prison that they could think of, and that is every day life for someone who suffers from narcolepsy with cataplexy. I wish I could find some way to find the writer who "came up" with that concept, and say "Yes! This is what we have to deal with every day! Now do you see? Will you help us raise awareness so that we can come closer to a cure?"

But I can't. I can just shake my head, write in my blog, and hope that some day my dreams come true.