Why do we sleepwalk?

Question

Why do we sleepwalk, sleep talk and have dreams? What are is the science behind that? If anyone has an answer please answer ASAP!! It would be super helpful for books or websites if possible..

Thanks for the feedback. I was also wondering if there are any magazines books etc., Ihave to get sources for my college class that I'm taking. I would also appreciate it if there were more details about REM and so on. Thanks agian

Answer 1

In psychology, many people try to explain what dreams are. The one I believe most is that your brain lets you go temporarily insane in your sleep so that you do not do so while you are awake. Also, when you have REM sleep (a deep sleep), your brain organizes all the info it gained during consciousness. That is why sleep is so essential, and why after "sleeping on a decision," it seems to be clearer.

We really don't know, we can only guess.

Answer 2

Jung wrote about dreams. There are sometimes bits from our day, our life or they can be something made up or something purely spiritual.

Sleep walking seems to run in families. My uncle, when a boy, got dressed and walked all the way to his best friends house and knocked on the door, then walked home, got undressed and went back to bed. He didn't remember a thing.

I got that gene, I did some sleepwalking as a teen and would go into my parents room and stand at the foot of their bed and start talking. I scared the living hell out of them on several nights. I never remembered a thing. Since then, I have only done that a couple of times during times of extreme stress. On one "walk" I ran into the door jam and nearly broke a finger and dislocate a shoulder. I caught myself as I was opening the front door to my house getting ready to run outside...in the middle of the night.

Answer 3

it normally goes along with mental stress to some degree, it a REM but to the next level

Answer 4

I know a couple people that sleep eat. They have no recollection of it the next day.