Why do some people sleep-walk? Is ti because of famlily genes or what?

Question

I have another question. Why do sone people sleep walk but when they wake up they don't remember a single thing? When they sleep walk, they need to use muscle right? So it must be the brain to control the muscle right? So why they still cannot remember it? The brain got to take down something about it?

Answer 1

I use to sleep walk and still do every so often. Not as much as I did when I was a teenager.

Stress made me sleep walk. I didn't know where or how I go to where I was at. It is a subconscious action done in order to try to resolve some kind of issue.

When you are in REM sleep, that is deep sleep, your body is mostly paralyzed by certain chemicals produced by the brain so that the body won't move. In the case of sleep-walkers, the chemicals are reduced and the body begins to act out what it is dreaming. That is why some people fight in their sleep.

Good question.

Answer 2

Sleepwalking (also called noctambulism or somnambulism), under the larger category of Parasomnias, is a sleep disorder where the sufferer engages in activities that are normally associated with wakefulness while asleep or in a sleeplike state. Sleepwalking can affect people of any age. It generally occurs when an individual awakes suddenly from Slow Wave Sleep (SWS or sometimes referred to as "deep sleep"), causing the sleepwalking episode. In children and young adults, up to 25% of the night is spent in SWS. However this decreases as the person ages until none can be measured in the geriatric individual. For this reason, children and young adults (or anyone else with high amount of SWS), are more likely to be woken up and, for the same reasons, they are witnessed to have many more episodes than the older individuals.