What causes sleepwalking at night? How much do you know about the causes?

Few people will experience sleepwalking during sleep. When a person is sleeping, the whole body is in a state of rest. If the nerve cells in the brain are still in an excited state, sleepwalking will occur. So, what is sleepwalking at night?

Sleepwalking is a strange phenomenon in which a person gets out of bed and moves around on his own during sleep, and then goes back to bed to continue sleeping. In neurology, it is a sleep disorder, and the symptoms are generally walking around the house in a semi-awake state, but some patients will leave the house or make some dangerous actions. Studies have shown that sleepwalking is mainly the result of the activity of the cerebral cortex. The activity of the brain includes two processes: "excitement" and "inhibition." Normally, when a person is asleep, the cells in the cerebral cortex are in an inhibited state. If at this time one or more groups of nerve cells that control movement are still in an excited state, sleepwalking will occur. The range of sleepwalking movement is often the environment that the sleepwalker is most familiar with and the actions that he often repeats. Sleepwalking is often a hot topic among people. People are very surprised by the phenomenon of sleepwalking, and at the same time, they have developed a series of obvious prejudices against it.

Sleepwalking is mainly the result of the activity of the cerebral cortex. The activity of the brain includes two processes: "excitement" and "inhibition". Normally, when a person is asleep, the cells of the cerebral cortex are in an inhibited state. If one or more groups of nerve cells that control movement are still in an excited state, sleepwalking will occur. As long as sleepwalking is not caused by organic brain disease, it does not require treatment. If it occurs frequently, you can ask a doctor to use some sedatives. Fear and anxiety can easily aggravate sleepwalking, so you should try to eliminate fear and anxiety.

Ordinary people think that sleepwalkers are probably like blind people running around everywhere, but in fact, sleepwalkers have half-open or full-open eyes, and they walk in the same way as usual. Ordinary people also think that sleepwalkers are very brave and dare to do some dangerous and terrifying actions, but in fact, sleepwalkers rarely do things that are out of the ordinary, and rarely make harmful offensive behaviors when sleepwalking. Of course, sleepwalkers sometimes fall and get hurt because of distraction. Ordinary people also have a prejudice that sleepwalkers should not be woken up casually, because sleepwalkers will go crazy if they are suddenly awakened. In fact, sleepwalkers are difficult to wake up, and even if they are woken up, they will not go crazy, but just feel confused. Some people believe that sleepwalking is actually dreaming, but psychologists have observed that sleepwalking often occurs during the non-rapid eye movement phase when dreaming is rare.

Sleepwalking is a brain disorder related to sleep. Under normal circumstances, during the rapid eye movement stage of sleep, the brain will transmit action commands to the muscular motor system. For example, if you dream of a fire, the brain will order your feet to run as fast as possible. However, people also have a blocking mechanism that prevents signals from being transmitted to the muscular motor system during sleep, allowing people to sleep soundly in bed. However, if this mechanism is disordered, people will move and experience sleepwalking. Most of the sleepwalking we see occurs during the non-rapid eye movement sleep stage, which is considered dreamless sleep on the EEG. The sleepwalker's body is asleep, but the sensory aspect is partially asleep; the cerebral cortex is generally in a state of inhibition, but there are still isolated arousal foci.