Why can't lunatics be woken up? This question often arises in those families where one or more people suffer from the so-called somnambulism. As you know, sleepwalking is a rarely occurring state of people in which they perform various actions, but sleep soundly. In order to understand why sleepwalkers should not be awakened, let us consider in more detail how the behavior of a sleeping person suffering from somnambulism differs from the usual waking one.
Distinctive features
Being in a state of sleep, but at the same time performing various actions, the sleepwalker looks as if he has already woken up and has been awake for a long time. This is due to the fact that the actions of such a person are quite adequate. But how do you understand that one of your family members is currently susceptible to somnambulism? The fact is that such a person is given out by his movements. Often they are smooth and slow. All actions that are performed by the sleepwalker at a certain point in time correspond to those movements that are dreaming of him in the same period. It is worth noting that a person with such a deviation can quite normally walk around the room, get dressed, visit the toilet, look in the refrigerator, and also open a window or door and even try to go outside.
Why can't lunatics be woken up?
Surely, each of you has ever heard that if you wake a sleepwalker, then his
heart may
stop, he may get a psychological trauma, remain a stutter, etc. But this is not so. Moreover, in order to bring a person suffering from somnambulism to a cheerful state, it will take a lot of effort and time. However, there are also cases when people walking in a dream come to their senses after just a few words spoken to them. Therefore, the question of why sleepwalkers should not be awakened was initially posed incorrectly. After all, to bring to consciousness such people is not only possible, but also necessary, since in a dream a person endangers his life and the life of those around him. After all, there are many examples when a sleepwalker tried to get out the window in a
multi-story building, get behind the wheel of a car, etc.
How to wake up?
Having learned the answer to the question of whether it is possible to awaken the sleepwalkers, another immediately arises - how to do it right? The fact is that if you bring such a person to his senses during his walk, then nothing terrible will happen. Just a sleepwalker will not understand what he is doing here and how he got here. In this case, you will have to explain to him what's what. That is why experts in this field say that it is impossible to wake up sleepwalkers if at this moment they are in a dangerous place (for example, on a staircase, roof of a house, etc.). In such situations, a sharp awakening of a person, and subsequently his understanding that he is about to fall, may well lead to tragic consequences. Therefore, it is advisable to take the sleepwalker to a safe place or put him back in bed, and only then wake him up, quietly calling by name.
Surprisingly, according to experts, on our planet there are only 2% of the population who suffer from somnambulism. Moreover, this interesting phenomenon has not yet been studied and it is not clear why it occurs in certain people.