Sleepwalking occurs when people engage in activities like bathing, brushing teeth, calling others, or making food while asleep. They may also move items or walk pets. This can lead to injuries from falls or accidents. While the exact causes are unknown, sleepwalking tends to occur when someone is in a deep sleep with slow brain waves, and may be triggered by patterns or fever. The author recounts a time they sleepwalked and walked into a glass door, showing the potential for harm.

1. SLEEP WALKING
By: Sydney Thompson

2. WHAT PEOPLE DO WHEN
THEY SLEEPWALKEOPLE
Take showers or baths
Brush their teeth or put on gel
Call people
Make food or lunch for work
Move thing around the house
Walk their pets/drive
Get dressed
Attack people in or outside of the house
Going in other peoples houseswalk

3. CONSEQUENCES OF SLEEP
WALKING
Getting hurt/Hurt other people/Your self
Break things
Scaring people
Hurting people

4. WHY PEOPLE SLEEP
WALK
No one actually knows why people
sleepwalk
Mental health professionals refer to
sleepwalking as a "disorder of arousal”
People usually sleep walk when they are
in a deep sleep and their brain waves are
very slow
Sleep walking is triggered by unusual
patterns or a fever

5. HAVE I SLEPT WALKED
BEFORE?
I have slept walked before
I was in my living room on
my couch and I got up and
tried to go to the kitchen and
walked into our glass door