Sleep Walking

[girlEcho]

I've always wondered why certain people sleep walk and why dont we remember anything. Also, its is true that if you wake someone up while thier sleepwalking, they could die. Sounds like bogus to me. But you never know.

[Gwendolyn]

I think that's a myth. I'm pretty sure the shock of waking up in a strange place isn't that pronounced.

[Burns]

My hubby used to sleepwalk all the time as a kid. He'd walk downstairs, use the telephone to call his mom at work in the middle of the night (obviously she was in bed and not at work), and go and sleep in the hallway in front of his parents bedroom door. He said that he vaguely remembered doing those things later when he woke up. He hasn't sleepwalked since childhood, so I'm wondering if it's kinda the same thing as kids get more nightmares than adults - kids sleepwalk more than adults? I dunno. And as Gwen rightly says, the whole myth about waking from sleepwalking and dying is bogus. Why would people even start such a stupid myth is beyond me.

[irishcream]

I sleepwalk in times of stress...so you know if i start rambling round the house, something is up with me... Luckily i've not done it yet when my boyfriend has been here, so i haven't freaked him out with that one. Although he says i talk a hell of a lot in my sleep, and i always seem to be annoyed.

[O'nus]

I will bet that the origin of the myth of waking up sleepwalkers being potentially fatal is a result from antinquity. You can easily see it coming from those times... "Oh, they are posessed and if you try to wake them, the demon posessing their body will take their soul along with them!" Generally sleepwalking is just the same as normal dreaming except their "motor functions" have been accidently triggered on. ~