sleepwalking
Unconscious midnight strolls
Sleepwalking is walking or performing other activities while asleep.
The sleepwalker typically has no memory of the episode afterward.
The term extends to doing something mechanically, without full awareness or engagement: The team was sleepwalking through the season until their star player returned.
Walking during deep sleep
- noctambulismWalking during sleep
- wanderingTraveling with no fixed course
- roamingMoving without fixed purpose
- nocturnalActive during darkness
unconscious · episode · trance · automatism · ambulation · movement · rising · awakening
Abnormal behavior while sleeping
- non-REMSleep stage without rapid eye movement
- diagnosisIdentification of illness
- treatmentCare for an ailment
- medicationTherapeutic substance for illness
benzodiazepines · childhood · hereditary · genetic · stress-induced · comorbid · chronic · episodes
Mental processes occurring
- dissociationMental separation from surroundings
- motor cortexBrain region controlling movement
- prefrontalBefore the frontal lobe
- unconsciousnessComplete lack of awareness
REM · neural · brainwaves · delta waves · autonomic · threshold · cortical · neurological
somnambulism
Walking during deep sleep
- noctambulismWalking during sleep
- wanderingTraveling with no fixed course
- roamingMoving without fixed purpose
nocturnal · unconscious · episode · trance · automatism · ambulation · movement · rising · awakening · triggering
parasomnia
Abnormal behavior while sleeping
- non-REMSleep stage without rapid eye movement
- diagnosisIdentification of illness
- treatmentCare for an ailment
medication · benzodiazepines · childhood · hereditary · genetic · stress-induced · comorbid · chronic · episodes · prevalence
brain activity
Mental processes occurring
- dissociationMental separation from surroundings
- motor cortexBrain region controlling movement
- prefrontalBefore the frontal lobe
unconsciousness · REM · neural · brainwaves · delta waves · autonomic · threshold · cortical · neurological
- Nightmoon, stars, moonlight, starlight, midnight
- sleepnap, doze, slumber, naps, snooze
- behaviorshabit, aggressive, agitation, conduct, passive
- inattentiondistracted, spacing, absent-minded, distraction, obliviousness
- nocturnal activitynight vision, night feeding, prowling, stalking, night flying
- sleep problemsinsomnia, night terrors, hypersomnia, nightmares, restless legs
sleepwalkingwakefulness
State of being conscious
wide-awake · mindful walking · lucid · aware · vigilant
sleepwalkingpaying attention
Directing focus toward something
wide awake · vigilant · vigilance · alert · alertness
sleep, walking, walk, sleeping, walker, sleeper, sleepiness, sleepwalker, sleepwalk