What Is Sleepwalking?🚶‍♂️

Morning Sleepwalkers!

You know sleepwalking?

That thing some people do where they wander around and do stuff…

While they’re ASLEEP??

Why do we do that???

It's actually super interesting, lemme explain…

So imagine you're all cozy in your bed, and you’re just dropping off.

This is the first stage of the sleep cycle and it lasts a couple of minutes or so.

But as you drift further and further into sleep, you move up to stage 2 AKA light sleep.

And a little while later, you enter stage 3, DEEP sleep.

During this stage, your brainwaves are at their slowest and your prefrontal cortex, aka the part of the brain responsible for conscious, decision-making is turned OFF.

But you're still not dreaming yet.

That comes about in the next stage… REM sleep.

Now, REM stands for Rapid Eye Movement.

During this stage, your body is mostly paralyzed, but your brain is actually very active!

Allowing you to DREAM!

And after a while of this, you will eventually hop over to the final stage…

The awake stage.

Ok, so how does sleepwalking play into this?

Well, you’d think sleepwalking would occur during the REM sleep, but you’d be wrong.

Sleepwalking actually occurs when, instead of jumping from the deep sleep stage to the REM stage…

The brain straight up skips the REM stage and jumps directly to the awake stage!

This confuses our brain, and body as it gets stuck between deep sleep mode and wakefulness

So you’re kinda half awake and half asleep at the same time.

Which allows you to:

Wander around.

Avoid obstacles.

Cook food.

Or even drive a car!

ALL while you're asleep!!

(Please don't do that last one though)

Stay Cute,
Reece, Henry & Dylan 🌈

If you’re that sexy friend, subscribe here.

‍