Ed often experiences an intense urge to sleep and has often fallen asleep for a few minutes while in business meetings, while driving, and talking on the phone. he is most likely to diagnosed as suffering from

Ed is suffering from narcolepsy. Narcolepsy is a sleep disorder identified by hallucination, sleep paralysis, excessive hours of sleep and loss of muscle control or cataplexy episodes. Cataplexy episodes are triggered by very strong emotions like anger, and excessive fun and laughter. Narcolepsy can be very dangerous due to an uncontrollable episode of falling asleep in the daytime.