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Your body goes for a walk and forgets to invite your brain.
means The act of walking or performing other actions while still asleep.
from Built from Latin somnus 'sleep' and ambulare 'to walk' — the same ambulare that gives us 'amble' and 'ambulance.' The word was coined in the 1700s when doctors wanted a clinical term for 'sleepwalking,' which already existed in plain English but lacked suitable Latin gravitas for medical papers.
- stage
- happens in deep non-REM sleep, not during dreams
- genetics
- runs in families, often childhood onset
- legal history
- has been used as a murder defense in court
- waking myth
- waking a sleepwalker is harmless, just disorienting