People can get up from sleep and walk automatically {somnambulism}| {sleepwalking}. For example, children can walk half-asleep to lavatory and return to bed. Sleepwalking is an automatism and can be without consciousness [Broughton et al., 1994] [Callwood, 1990] [Jacobson et al., 1965] [Kavey et al., 1990] [Masand et al., 1995] [Moldofsky et al., 1995] [Puccetti, 1973] [Revonsuo et al., 2000] [Schenck and Mahowald, 1998] [Vgontzas and Kales, 1999]. Sleepwalking is unconscious and unaware, with no sensations.
properties
Sleepwalking lasts up to 30 minutes. Sleepwalking has purposeful movements. People can avoid obstacles and return to bed. They typically have poor coordination, are clumsy, and are unreliable. Sleepwalkers do not go anywhere unusual. Motions are smaller than normal. Eyes are open. Somnambulism can happen during orthodox sleep early at night, with large slow EEG waves, because muscle output has no inhibition. Sleepwalking occurs more in deep sleepers.
Sleepwalking can have talking. Night terror can accompany sleepwalking.
factors
Sleepwalking is more frequent with daytime anxiety.
Sleepwalking is more common among children.
Sleepwalking is hereditary.
comparisons
Sleepwalking trances are like hysterical dissociation. People look dazed, preoccupied, and unresponsive.
memory
After waking, people do not remember sleepwalking.
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