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Subjective sleep disturbances are more often seen in people with epilepsy (PWE) than in healthy controls. Questionnaire-based studies in specialized epilepsy clinics suggest that more than a third of adults with refractory epilepsy have a sleep disturbance, twice as often as in controls1,2. In children with epilepsy, the prevalence of sleep disturbances is even higher, being ten times that of classmates of the same age without epilepsy3. In the general community, the prevalence of obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) is up to 13%4,5, but the prevalence is up to 63% in PWE6,7.