Sleepwalking is a common physiological phenomenon. There are many ways to sleepwalk, some are ordinary and some are bizarre.

Some sleepwalkers will involuntarily get out of bed and talk nonsense after falling asleep; Even dress in an orderly way and cook well; Or go for a ride outside, then come back to sleep in bed and wake up the next day with no memory of what happened at night.

It is reported that a medical student suffers from sleepwalking. He often gets up alone at night, walks to the autopsy room, breaks in, bites the nose of the corpse with his mouth, and then goes back to the dormitory to lie down and sleep. Soon after, the school found that the noses of many bodies were missing. After careful investigation, the truth came out.

The length of sleepwalking is also different. It is said that there is a French sleepwalker named Yong arrio who has been sleepwalking for 20 years. One night, he suddenly got up after sleeping, left his wife and 5-year-old daughter and came to London, England. He found a job there, married a wife and gave birth to a son. One night after more than 20 years, he suddenly realized and hurried back to France. Next morning, Ariao woke up. When his French wife saw her white-haired husband who had been missing for more than 20 years, she asked with mixed feelings of sadness and joy, "Dear, where have you escaped?" No news for more than 20 years. However, arrio stretched himself and said casually, "Don't laugh! Didn't I sleep well last night? "

How is sleepwalking formed? Studies have shown that sleepwalking is mainly the result of human cerebral cortex activities. Brain activity includes two processes: "excitement" and "inhibition". Usually, when people sleep, the cells in the cerebral cortex are in a state of inhibition. If one or more groups of nerve cells that control movement are still excited at this time, sleepwalking will occur. The range of sleepwalking is often the most familiar environment and the actions that sleepwalkers often do repeatedly.

According to Japanese statistics, the number of sleepwalkers accounts for about 1 ~ 6% of the total population, mostly children and men, especially lively and imaginative people, and most of them have appeared several times. Most adults who suffer from sleepwalking are left over from childhood.

When treating sleepwalking, psychotherapy and medication must be carried out at the same time. We should remove bad mental factors, eliminate anxiety, fear and tension, improve its environment, pay attention to the combination of work and rest and physical exercise; At the same time, according to their different ages, supplemented by appropriate doses of sedative and hypnotic drugs, such as diazepam, metoclopramide, dawn and so on. According to reports, patients taking imipramine orally before going to bed under the guidance of a doctor also have a good effect. It is also an effective measure to wake him up in time at the beginning of sleepwalking.