Sleeping disorders
There are a variety of sleeping disorders. The most common are Insomnia which is a hard time falling or staying asleep. Sleep apnea is breathing interruptions during sleep, restless legs syndrome; a tingling or prickly sensation in the legs. When most people think of sleeping disorders they think of sleep walking/ talking. As funny as they are they can be very dangerous. My family has a history of sleep walking and only one of my sisters don’t sleep walk or talk.
Causes of insomnia include a lot stress, maybe a job loss or a major change, death of a loved one, getting a divorce, or even moving. Illnesses will cause insomnia. Emotional or physical problems. Environmental disturbances like loud noises, sunlight, or discomforting …show more content…
It’s also known somnambulism. Most sleepwalkers don’t remember when they sleep walk or what they do. So if you were to try and ask them a question they either won’t respond or they will say something that makes sense to them but no sense to you. The person’s eyes are glassy and they just roam around. Sleep walking usually happen in a person’s childhood, between the ages of four to eight, but adults do it as well. Some people don’t grow out of it, but most do. It usually happens early in the night, within an hour or two of falling asleep, during the 'slow-wave ' or deep stage of sleep; and lasts anywhere from five to 20 minutes. If your family has a history of sleep walking you are ten times more likely to do it, and studies found that identical twins are more likely to sleepwalk. Sleepwalking won’t harm the person’s mind, it’s what they do while sleepwalking. There was a little boy that slept walk out of his house onto a busy highway and got hit by a car and died. So sleep walking can be very unsafe. Sleepwalking and sleep talking is related to night terrors as well. Night terrors is intense fear in a dream that may result in the person to wake up screaming. Night terrors are not nightmares. When a person has a nightmares they can wake up but a night terror the person can’t wake up. Both have “REM,” which stands for rapid eye
There are a variety of sleeping disorders. The most common are Insomnia which is a hard time falling or staying asleep. Sleep apnea is breathing interruptions during sleep, restless legs syndrome; a tingling or prickly sensation in the legs. When most people think of sleeping disorders they think of sleep walking/ talking. As funny as they are they can be very dangerous. My family has a history of sleep walking and only one of my sisters don’t sleep walk or talk.
Causes of insomnia include a lot stress, maybe a job loss or a major change, death of a loved one, getting a divorce, or even moving. Illnesses will cause insomnia. Emotional or physical problems. Environmental disturbances like loud noises, sunlight, or discomforting …show more content…
It’s also known somnambulism. Most sleepwalkers don’t remember when they sleep walk or what they do. So if you were to try and ask them a question they either won’t respond or they will say something that makes sense to them but no sense to you. The person’s eyes are glassy and they just roam around. Sleep walking usually happen in a person’s childhood, between the ages of four to eight, but adults do it as well. Some people don’t grow out of it, but most do. It usually happens early in the night, within an hour or two of falling asleep, during the 'slow-wave ' or deep stage of sleep; and lasts anywhere from five to 20 minutes. If your family has a history of sleep walking you are ten times more likely to do it, and studies found that identical twins are more likely to sleepwalk. Sleepwalking won’t harm the person’s mind, it’s what they do while sleepwalking. There was a little boy that slept walk out of his house onto a busy highway and got hit by a car and died. So sleep walking can be very unsafe. Sleepwalking and sleep talking is related to night terrors as well. Night terrors is intense fear in a dream that may result in the person to wake up screaming. Night terrors are not nightmares. When a person has a nightmares they can wake up but a night terror the person can’t wake up. Both have “REM,” which stands for rapid eye