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Mental disorders
There are many disorders that a person may face during the stages of his life, whether during his childhood or youth, or his old age, including: work pressure disorders, and the occurrence of psychological crises resulting from social disturbances by the surrounding people, and the degree of disturbances varies from one person to another in its form and manner, and is manifested Several forms, including: the occurrence of eating disorders, in which a person abstains from eating, or exaggerates in eating, and the occurrence of some sleep disorders such as insomnia and walking through it.
Sleep stages
Our brains go through five stages when we sleep, each stage has its own function, and the fifth stage is the rapid eye movement stage, or the dream stage, and all of these stages constitute the human sleep cycle naturally.
Each sleep cycle lasts from 90 to 100 minutes, and often the person reaches the depth during his sleep during the third or fourth stage, and at this stage it is difficult to wake the person due to falling asleep, and if he wakes up he feels dizzy that accompanies him for up to a few minutes, and children go deeper, especially during sleep. An hour or two, and if they had trouble walking during sleep, they would walk for thirty minutes.
The habit of walking while you sleep
Many people are exposed to a bad habit during their sleep late at night, which is walking, and this habit affects the life of the person and those around him, and it is a very common habit among different ages, especially children, and it is a hereditary habit that is transmitted from the father or mother to the children.
People with this disease roam the house without realizing it, and do some harmful behaviors such as sitting in any dangerous place, going outside and doing several inappropriate behaviors, and urinating anywhere without realizing that they have done anything.
Is walking during sleep harmful?
Sleepwalking is not harmful, but it may be dangerous for some children who do not realize what they are doing, such as walking on the edge of a window or leaving the house, and it is a habit that does not affect psychologically or emotionally on the person because he is not aware of what he is doing, and does not It can be psychological or medical.
The safety of those who walk during their sleep can be preserved by taking precautions and caution inside the house, by following several steps that we will discuss later in our article.
Causes of sleepwalking
- Lack of sleep or fatigue.
- Irregular sleep schedule.
- Illness or fever.
- Take some medications.
- Stress.
Sleepwalking behaviors
- Walk around the house without realizing it.
- Talking while you sleep.
- Difficulty waking up.
- Always stunned.
- Being in a state of breach.
- Not responding to the ocean.
- Try to undress and rub eyes frequently.
- Open the eyes without seeing the surroundings.
- The breathing stops for a short time.
- Bedwetting.
- Nocturnal fear.
Coping with the sleepwalking habit
- Not waking the person but helping them get back to bed.
- Close all doors and windows, and put additional locks on them.
- Make the person sleep on a bunk bed and nothing more.
- Remove sharp and breakable objects and tools from a person's hands.
- Removed any missteps that might have been in the house before bed so that he would not fall.
- Putting safety doors, especially if the disease is a child.
- Make the person relax and listen to music.
- Add naps to the affected person's program.
- Making the person sleep early, especially if he is a child.
- Helping the person go to the bathroom before bed, and not being motivated to drink fluids and caffeine.
- Eliminate noise from the place where the victim sleeps.
