Sleepwalking

While sleeping one night a six and a half year old girl was awaken by screams coming from her neighbor’s yard. After alerting her parents she later learned that she had heard the screams of her elderly neighbor. The elderly neighbor woke up in a pond near his house surrounded by alligators. The man had sleepwalked from his bedroom to the pond where he was awaken. What is sleepwalking? What could have caused this man to leave his bed and walk down to the near pond? Was he interpreting a dream?
The definition of sleepwalking is, The act or an instance of walking or performing another activity associated with wakefulness while asleep or in a sleeplike state. Also called somnambulism. We know somnambulism as a time when a person is able to perform complicated actions in their sleep, like walking. Some sleepwalkers merely just sit up in bed while others have been known to drive cars. When sleepwalkers wake up they do not remember the previous night’s activities. Sleepwalkers usua...