At a brain based business conference I led ... the topic of sleep came up ... and 
one man and his wife complained about their lives uprooted from the time they turned out the lights until the alarm dragged them out of bed, exhausted the following day.
”He dreamed we were in a safari and threw me out of bed to avoid a lion attack one night,” she complained. “Another time he stood as a finalist … at what he thought was the starting gate of an Olympian race, and then when the trigger went off in his head, he ran headlong into the bedroom wall and broke his nose.” Then there was the night he thought he heard a fire truck…. He leaped out the first floor bedroom window in his jockeys yelling “Fire…Run” up and down the street….
While these wild nighttime adventures may not be your norm, sleep walking affects up to 15% of the population. Know anybody whose sleep life exhilarates more danger and risk ... than your daytime dreams risk at the cutting edge?
In spite of what people once thought, sleepwalking is common, causes personal injury and can be controlled. According to Marion Howard, stress and substance abuse often trigger adults to walk while they sleep. The National Sleep Foundation reports also that … the onset or persistence of sleepwalking in adulthood is common, and is usually not associated with any significant underlying psychiatric or psychological problems. Common triggers for sleepwalking include sleep deprivation, sedative agents such as alcohol … febrile illnesses … and certain medications.”
What do you think?
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