Show 0 why we do 0 what we do 0 by it K H ph D WHY SOME PEOPLE PEOBLE WALK IN THEIR SLEEP ala A PERSON who walks in his sleep la called a somnambulist some somnambulists perform rather complicated acts such as doing the ordinary chores chorea of the day climbing ladders walking on the ek eke e of a roof find and even taking tailing a long swim without waking they usually go back to bed and finish out their nights sleep without recalling a thing when they wake up in the morning the sleep walker does many remarkable things without the use ot of all of his faculties but it Is not true as many believe that he never comes to grief he does sometimes he be awakens in the midst of some sleep activity and Is terribly frightened it Is 13 a great nervous shock such stich a person should never be awakened but led back gently and quietly they are also liable to fall or otherwise injure themselves sleep walking Is not a healthy condition it usually indicates at least some minor nervous disorder if not worse it frequently occurs in bys terla epilepsy and the kindred nervous diseases As a rule it Is confined to young people sometimes it la Is the result of indigestion the sleep walker acts out his dream the explanation tor for talking in ones sleep applies to walking in ones sleep except that instead of linking up the speech centers with his thought centers the somnambulist connects the motor centers the thought centers this occurs less frequently than in the case of sleep talking for roost most of us will awake when so much of our brain Is active sleep walking Is a form of dreaming in which the ideas that shoot through the mind in dreams get hooked up with their corresponding motor neurons in the ordinary dream the motor centers are disconnected from the he thought centers during the sleeping period ff A by McClure N I 1 r |