Sleep Walking
Abstract
Sleepwalking, also known as somnambulism, is a sleep disorder belonging to the parasomnia family. Sleepwalking is a disorder that occurs when people walk or do another activity while they are still asleep. These activities can be as benign as sitting up in bed, walking to the bathroom, and cleaning, or as hazardous as cooking, driving, having sex, violent gestures, grabbing at hallucinated objects, or even homicide. The prevalence of sleepwalking in the general population is estimated to be between 1% and 15%.
SLEEPWALKING
Sleepwalking, formally known as somnambulism, is a behavior disorder that originates during deep sleep and results in walking or performing other complex behaviors while asleep. It is belongs to the Parasomnias family. Parasomnias are a category of sleep disorders that involve abnormal and unnatural movements, behaviors, emotions, perceptions, and dreams that occur while falling asleep, sleeping, between sleep stages, or during arousal from sleep ( (Bassetti et al., 2000)).
Sleep was once referred to as “the gentle tyrant” (Webb, 1992). People can try to stay awake, and sometimes they may go for a while without sleep, but eventually they must sleep. One reason for this fact is that sleep is one of the human body’s biological rhythms, natural cycles of activity that the body must go through. Sleepwalkers often have little or no memory of the incident, as they are not truly conscious. The person's eyes are commonly open but have a dim and glassy "look right through you" character.
Sleepwalking has been described in medical literature dating before Hippocrates (460 BC-370 BC). Sleepwalking was initially thought to be a dreamer acting out a dream, as represented in a study conducted by the Society for Science & the Public in 1954, stating: “Sleepwalking as a repression of hostile feelings against the father caused the patients to react by acting out in a dream world with sleepwalking, the distorted fantasies they had about all
Sleepwalking, also known as somnambulism, is a sleep disorder belonging to the parasomnia family. Sleepwalking is a disorder that occurs when people walk or do another activity while they are still asleep. These activities can be as benign as sitting up in bed, walking to the bathroom, and cleaning, or as hazardous as cooking, driving, having sex, violent gestures, grabbing at hallucinated objects, or even homicide. The prevalence of sleepwalking in the general population is estimated to be between 1% and 15%.
SLEEPWALKING
Sleepwalking, formally known as somnambulism, is a behavior disorder that originates during deep sleep and results in walking or performing other complex behaviors while asleep. It is belongs to the Parasomnias family. Parasomnias are a category of sleep disorders that involve abnormal and unnatural movements, behaviors, emotions, perceptions, and dreams that occur while falling asleep, sleeping, between sleep stages, or during arousal from sleep ( (Bassetti et al., 2000)).
Sleep was once referred to as “the gentle tyrant” (Webb, 1992). People can try to stay awake, and sometimes they may go for a while without sleep, but eventually they must sleep. One reason for this fact is that sleep is one of the human body’s biological rhythms, natural cycles of activity that the body must go through. Sleepwalkers often have little or no memory of the incident, as they are not truly conscious. The person's eyes are commonly open but have a dim and glassy "look right through you" character.
Sleepwalking has been described in medical literature dating before Hippocrates (460 BC-370 BC). Sleepwalking was initially thought to be a dreamer acting out a dream, as represented in a study conducted by the Society for Science & the Public in 1954, stating: “Sleepwalking as a repression of hostile feelings against the father caused the patients to react by acting out in a dream world with sleepwalking, the distorted fantasies they had about all
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