Sleepwalking, also known as somnambulism, is a sleep disorder where people get up and walk or perform other activities while asleep and with low consciousness. Sleepwalking occurs most commonly in children between ages 4-8, when 20% may experience it, and it decreases with age. While sleepwalking episodes are usually harmless, they can occasionally involve complex or dangerous behaviors like cooking, driving, or violence. Adults can also experience sleepwalking, though it is less common, with around 3.7% of adults reporting episodes at least twice a month. Sleepwalking was first seriously studied in the 19th century.

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2. What is sleepwalking?
Sleepwalking, also known as somnambulism, is a sleep
disorder belonging to the parasomnia family. Sleepwalkers arise
from the slow wave sleep stage in a state of low consciousness and
perform activities that are usually performed during a state of full
consciousness. These activities can be as benign as sitting up in
bed, walking to the bathroom, and cleaning, or as hazardous as
cooking, driving, violent gestures, grabbing at hallucinated objects,
or even homicide.

3. Details
Although generally sleepwalking cases consist of simple,
repeated behaviours, there are occasionally reports of people
performing complex behaviours while asleep, although their
legitimacy is often disputed. In December 2008, reports
were published of a woman who sent semi-coherent emails while
sleepwalking, including one inviting a friend around for dinner
and drinks. Sleepwalkers often have little or no memory of the
incident, as they are not truly conscious. Although their eyes
are open, their expression is dim and glazed over. Sleepwalking
may last as little as 30 seconds or as long as 30 minutes.

4. CHILDREN
Sleepwalking events are common in childhood and decrease with
age. According to Lavie, Malhotra and Pillar, the peak age is
4–8 years, when prevalence is 20% frequency of events. It is
also known that "between 25–33% of somnambulists have
nocturnal enuresis" (bed-wetting). Like sleepwalking, enuresis
is more common in children and fades away as the child ages.
Some children who sleepwalk are also affected by night terrors.
However, night terrors are much more common in adult
sleepwalkers, up to 50% more common.

5. ADULTS
The persistence or onset of sleepwalking in adulthood is less common
than in children. A 2012 study conducted by the Stanford University
School of Medicine showed that the prevalence of sleepwalking adults in
the United States was higher than once thought, with 3.7% of
participants reporting two or more episodes per month. It is a
misconception that adult sleepwalking always indicates a psychological
disorder. Sleepwalking can, however, be a symptom of people with
psychological disorders. In one study, adult test subjects were given
the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, a psychiatric test.
According to the study, patients showed "outwardly directed behavior
patterns...suggesting that these adults had difficulty handling
aggression. They did not support an interpretation of sleepwalking as
'hysterical dissociation'."

6. DISCOVERER
Sleepwalking has attracted a sense of mystery, but
it had not been seriously investigated and
diagnosed until the last century. The 19th-
century German chemist and parapsychologist
Baron Karl Ludwig von Reichenbach made
extensive studies of sleepwalkers and used his
discoveries to formulate his theory of the Odic
force.

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