Aishling is stressed by work and her ex moving on. She lets her friend Eva stay with her but things get tense. One night, Aishling sees Eva searching "sexsomnia" online. The next day, Eva shows Aishling a video of her sleepwalking to the couch. Eva explains that Aishling has been experiencing sexsomnia brought on by stress, and that yoga and decluttering using Feng Shui principles can help cure it.

1. The Story of a Sleep Disorder

2. Background
Aishling O’Brien is a 39 year old bank official
who recently got a new boss and is anxious to
prove that she is a dedicated and diligent
worker who can be relied upon to do a good
job. The bank Aishling works in, Secure
Homes Ltd., has recently been taken over by
the Irish State following the collapse of the
housing market and the Irish banking crisis.
It is rumoured that job cuts are inevitable and
all workers, especially Aishling, are anxious to
prove their worth and keep their jobs.

3. Banking Crisis Ireland

4. Today Aishling found out on Facebook that
her ex-partner is engaged and getting
married in the Summer. This was a huge blow
to Aishling, as herself and Bobby had been
living together for almost five years, before
he decided to move to Australia for ‘work-
related-reasons’ less than twelve months ago.
He worked in the building trade and felt he
had no other option, but she hoped he would
get home sick and return, so that they could
get married some day as planned.

5. Recent Developments
At the end of September Aishling’s Polish
friend Eva was laid off work, when the
beauticians where she had been working
for the past six months went bankrupt.
This left 27 years old Eva at her wits end, as
apparently she is not entitled to any Social
Welfare payments. Therefore, she was
waiting for her mother to send some
money to tide Eva over until she can secure
another job. Aishling felt she had to offer
her a place to stay for a week or so, but
that was over two months ago!

6. Beauty Salon For Sale

7. Aishling’s one bedroom apartment is small
and rather cluttered (she still hasn’t got it
together to throw out Bobby’s stuff). Over
the last couple of days the atmosphere in
the apartment has been very tense.
No money has come for Eva as yet and
Aishling is concerned that this addition
stress at home might affect her work, but
doesn’t now how best to deal with the
situation, as she doesn’t want to push Eva
to move out.

8. Feng Shui – NOT!

9. Aishling is asked to work late Friday
evening and gets home at 8pm, to find a
note from Eva saying she had gone down
to the local Internet Café and would be
back before 9:30pm. Aishling went to the
fridge to see what was there to eat. That
morning she had given Eva €50 to get
groceries. The fridge was empty.
Aishling was furious!

11. She paced up and down the kitchen cum
sitting room until she eventual burst into
tears. Then she decided enough is enough
and put on her coat and headed to the
Internet Café. Eva was chatting to a guy
around her own age when Aishling arrived,
so Eva didn’t notice as she approached
from behind. Aishling stopped short as she
read what was on the computer monitor

12. “Sexsomnia,
can it be
cured?”

13. Then…
Aishling turned abruptly on her heels and
headed straight back to the apartment. Not
knowing what to do next, Aishling went to
bed. Eva arrived back soon after that, but
Aishling pretended she was asleep.
The following day Aishling did some research
on the Internet about Sexsomnia, its
manifestation and treatment. The medication
seemed expensive and she didn’t know how
Eva would be able to afford it.

14. All of a sudden Aishling started to question
exactly how much she really knew about Eva,
her family and her past. After careful
consideration she decided that she would
have to ask Eva to leave the following day.
There was no other option!

15. On Saturday Aishling brought home some
pizzas and after dinner she told Eva that her
cousin was coming over from the US at short
notice and she would have to move out the
following day.
Eva said that that was completely
understandable and thanked her for
putting her up in the apartment for so
long.

17. Eva went on to say that as well as being
beautician she was also a Yoga teacher and
that she would really like to show Aishling
some yoga movements in return for her
generosity.
She would also like to help Aishling rearrange
the layout of her bedroom, so as to maximize
the positive energy of Feng Shui.

18. Yoga for Health & Relaxation

19. Simple things like moving the position of the
mirror and the direction of the bed would
contribute enormously to a good night’s
sleep.
Eva went on to say that as well as being
beautician she was also a Yoga teacher and
that she would really like to show Aishling
some yoga movements in return for her
generosity.

20. Feng Shui

21. She would also like to help Aishling rearrange
the layout of her bedroom, so as to maximize
the positive energy of Feng Shui. Simple
things like moving the position of the mirror
and the direction of the bed would contribute
enormously to a good night’s sleep. Aishling
was complete taken aback by this and
decided to bit the bullet and confront Eva
about spending the grocery money in the
Internet Café.

22. Is this Sexsomnia ?
To Aishling’s surprise Eva was completely
calm and replied
“You really don’t know, do you?”
“Know what?” replied Aishling.
Eva produced her mobile phone and played a
two minute video of Aishling getting out of
bed and sleep walking over to the sofa where
Eva was lying.
http://www.ted.com/talks/jessa_gamble_how_to_sleep.html

23. What happens next?

24. Is this Sexsomnia ?
Aishling was complete shocked. “What is
going on?”
“Relax Aishling”, said Eva “this behaviour is
brought on by stress and is completely
curable. What you are suffering from is called
sexsomnia, is a condition in which a person
will engage in sexual acts while still asleep.
Sexsomniacs do not remember the acts they
perform while they're asleep.”

25. Is this Sexsomnia ?
’Moreover, Sexsomnia can co-occur
alongside other sleep disorders such as
sleepwalking, sleep apnea, night terrors
and can be triggered by stress.”
Aishling composed herself and said
“So that’s why you went to the Café?

26. Sexsomnia – the Solution!
“More importantly”, said Eva “you need to
de-stress and exercise and yoga is the most
wonderful way of combining these. Also,
while we rearranging the room,
we can engage in another
Feng Shui principal,
de-cluttering. Its time Bobby’s
bags went to the charity shop!”.

27. Yoga & Feng Shui=Happy Days & Nights!