Essay On Sleepwalking

Somnambulism is sleepwalking. This will occur while someone is in a deep sleep rather than a light sleep. Somnambulism is classified as being a Parasomnia. The people who is affected, what sleepwalking does to your body, diagnoses, and treatments are an important role with coping with Somnambulism. Someone can walk or perform complicated behaviors while asleep. The disorder mainly affects children, but adults can have the disorder also. In 2004 after a poll was taken, one percent of preschool students and two percent of children that attend school sleepwalk at least once a week. Once the person awakens from sleeping they usually will not remember sleepwalking. Some symptoms are sitting up in bed and looking around, walking around your …show more content…
If someone is sleep deprived, has a messed up sleep schedule, stressed, or even drunk can lead them to sleepwalking. Medical conditions may also cause someone to have Somnambulism. Sleepwalking can harm you for many reasons. Just imagine a person with no idea of their surroundings walking around, accidents will happen.
There really isn’t a specific treatment to use for Somnambulism. Improving one's sleep schedule will help, but if they are experiencing more problems they should contact their doctor and report any symptoms they have. In many cases hypnosis has helped adults experiencing Somnambulism. Again, children are more apt to have Somnambulism so if an adult has the condition then they need consult their doctor immediately.
Overall Somnambulism isn’t a very common issue with someone’s life, but if it does happen there are ways it can be taken care of. If your child has it, that means an adult needs to watch them a little more carefully when they sleep. The child should outgrow the condition. There are many factors that can lead a person to sleepwalk. It could be genetic or perhaps by a medical condition. Somnambulism has been around for ages, so there really isn’t a cure for