the.com/parasomnia
Your brain acts out a whole drama while you're too asleep to direct it.
means A disruptive sleep disorder involving abnormal behaviors, movements, or experiences — like sleepwalking, night terrors, or sleep talking — that occur while falling asleep, during sleep, or when waking.
from Built from Greek 'para' (beside, alongside, or beyond normal) plus Latin 'somnus' (sleep) — the same root that gives us 'insomnia' and 'somnolent.' Coined in modern medical Latin/Greek hybrid fashion, the word literally means something happening 'alongside' sleep rather than within it, placing these behaviors in the uneasy border zone between waking and unconsciousness.
- includes
- sleepwalking, night terrors, sleep eating, sleep talking
- timing
- usually hits during deep non-REM sleep, early night
- memory
- you rarely remember any of it the next morning
- trigger
- worsened by stress, alcohol, and sleep deprivation