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Your brain, running a motor demo while the lights are off upstairs.
means Walking or performing other actions while still fully asleep, usually with no memory of it afterward.
from English simply welded 'sleep' to 'walking' — a plain compound, first showing up in writing in the 1800s, though the phenomenon itself (and the older term 'somnambulism,' from Latin somnus 'sleep' plus ambulare 'to walk') had been described long before that. No hidden story here — the word just does exactly what it says, which is rarer in etymology than you'd think.
- stage
- happens in deep non-REM sleep, not dreams
- waking it
- is harmless, despite the old myth
- genetics
- runs heavily in families, up to 80 percent linked
- peak age
- most common in children, fades by adulthood