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Sleepwalking or somnambulism is a disorder which causes people to walk around while they are asleep. Occasionally, they may even go to the bathroom or drive a car.

But do you know why this happens?

While sleeping, our brain goes through various stages of sleep. However sometimes, when we are in deep, Non-REM stage of sleep, our brain skips the Active Brain REM stage and directly goes to being awake. Hence, we enter a state where our brain is just awake enough to perform physical activities, but it is still asleep enough to not have any conscious awareness, causing us to be in a sort of mixed state of sleep and wakefulness, thus causing us to sleepwalk.

It is observed that sleepwalking is more common in children. However, factors like stress, sleep deprivation, sedative drugs, sleep apnea, etc., may lead to sleepwalking in adults.