What is the cause of sleep walking?

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Sleep Walking-Somnambulism

Q. What is the cause of sleep walking?

A. The habit of walking about while asleep is one of the most curious of all the phenomena of nervous action. The somnambulistic state is simply an exaggeration of the state of dream. It is a condition in which the intellectual faculties are dormant, while many parts of the brain seem to be even more active than usual. While in this curious state, persons will accomplish feats which would be impossible for them while awake.

Many remarkable instances of somnambulism are recorded. For example a story is told of one Cortelli, who was found one night asleep in the act of translating from a dictionary. When his candle was extinguished, he arose and went to seek another light.

The Archbishop of Bordeaux tells a story of a theological student who wrote sermons while he was asleep. He continued to write after the paper was removed and while he was re­vising a page requiring correction, a piece of blank paper of the exact size was substituted for his own manuscript, and on that he made the corrections in the precise situation which they would have occupied on the original page.

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