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Sleep medicine experts have successfully treated a rare case of a woman having sex with strangers while sleepwalking.
The behaviour had disrupted the lives of the woman and her partner. At night while asleep, the middle-aged sleepwalker - who lives in Australia and cannot be identified for reasons of confidentiality - left her house and had sexual intercourse with strangers. The behaviour continued for several months and the woman had no memory of her nocturnal activities.

Circumstantial evidence, such as condoms found scattered around the house, alerted the couple to the problem. On one occasion, her partner awoke to find her missing, went searching for her and found her engaged in the sex act.

"Incredulity is the leading player in cases like this," says Peter Buchanan, the sleep physician at the Woolcock Institute of Medical Research in Sydney, who handled the case. But a combination of factors convinced him that the case was a real sleepwalking phenomenon, including the distress of the couple, and an in-depth clinical evaluation.

Sleep talking

During that evaluation, the patient was assessed by psychiatrists, and checked for physical problems such as brain tumours, which may cause unusual behaviour. Neither of those examinations could find a cause.

However, she was found to have a history of talking in her sleep as a teenager and when monitored in the sleep laboratory, she was found to have a higher number of arousals from deep sleep than is usual. Both of these factors might indicate a susceptibility to abnormal sleep behaviour.

However, Roger Allen, a sleep specialist in private practice in Brisbane is sceptical. "Sex is a primal behaviour so it's not impossible - men have erections in their sleep after all - but this case involved such complex behaviour it seems less likely." He also points out that eliminating psychiatric conditions as a cause of the behaviour would be difficult.

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But there are some extraordinary cases of sleep walkers leaving their homes, driving cars, or engaging in behaviours that they would not usually. In 1987, Ken Parks, drove 23 kilometres from his home in Pickering, Ontario, to his in-laws house, where he strangled his father-in-law unconscious, and stabbed his mother-in-law to death. He was acquitted of murder because he was sleepwalking at the time.

"People in a state of automatism don't have access to their full range of beliefs and desires, so it seems justifiable to excuse them," says Neil Levy of the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at the University of Melbourne.

Sleepwalking is often triggered by stress, and this may have been the case with the Sydney woman, says Buchanan. She stopped her night-time excursions after psychiatric counselling. Drugs such as benzodiazepines, which are sometimes used to treat sleep walkers, were not necessary.

Any type of sleepwalking is rare. It occurs in around 3% of children and young adolescents, and about 0.5% of adults. Usually it involves little more than walking around in a fairly purposeful way while asleep, although sleepwalkers may lash out if awoken.

The results were presented at a sleep conference in Sydney on Friday
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So umm, the human brain is quite an enigma huh? Guys? guys?

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn6540-sleepwalking-woman-had-sex-with-strangers.html
 
But there are some extraordinary cases of sleep walkers leaving their homes, driving cars, or engaging in behaviours that they would not usually. In 1987, Ken Parks, drove 23 kilometres from his home in Pickering, Ontario, to his in-laws house, where he strangled his father-in-law unconscious, and stabbed his mother-in-law to death. He was acquitted of murder because he was sleepwalking at the time.
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This story is still such a mindfuck
 
I remember reading something about that in a Cracked article. Some forms of sleepwalking really can lead to all kinds of random/dangerous shit.
 
People have driven cars and made food while sleepwalking, it's not too silly to assume that someone would have sex while sleepwalking
 
Who are the people agreeing to have sex with some random woman who just shows up at their house in the middle of the night? Why are condoms scattered around her house? How exactly did her boyfriend find her in the act?

So many questions that this article just glosses over.
 
Jarate said:
People have driven cars and made food while sleepwalking, it's not too silly to assume that someone would have sex while sleepwalking
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My doctor jokingly mentioned that I could potentially have sex with my wife and not remember it when I was prescribed Zopiclone.

I have no idea if I had any episodes like that.
 
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Did I do this right?
 
At night while asleep, the middle-aged sleepwalker - who lives in Australia and cannot be identified for reasons of confidentiality - left her house and had sexual intercourse with strangers.
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Definitely saw a Discovery Health-type show episode on this at some point. It's a huge danger for the person, not just in terms of accidentally becoming victimized, but also for them to accidentally victimize others.
 
Vermillion said:
So she has to encounter a bunch of rapists or she's lying...

That the sum of it?
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neither or, sleepwalking can be very weird, and if she also sleep talks, then that could lead her actually asking for sex. Now obviously it's a slippery slope, but with how common it is for people to have sex, do you honestly get surprised that something like this would happen?. People have been known to drive cars, and cook food while sleeping. propositioning for sex, especially with males, does not seem that hard.
 
Um, why the the hell aren't they locking her in their bedroom then? If she's asleep, how does she know men are using condoms all the time. So she's exposing her husband and herself to all sorts of diseases and warts? Gross as hell. I don't believe this for a second though.
 
Kibbles said:
How did they proove he was sleepwalking?
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Basically lack of motive and irregular EEG readings

Parks’s only defence was that he was asleep during the entire incident and was not aware of what he was doing. Naturally, nobody believed it; even sleep specialists were extremely skeptical. However, after careful investigation, the specialists could find no other explanation. Parks’ EEG readings were highly irregular even for a parasomniac. This combined with the facts that there was no motive, that he was amazingly consistent in his stories for more than seven interviews despite repeated attempts of trying to lead him astray, that the timing of the events fit perfectly with the proposed explanation, and that there is no way to fake EEG results, led to a jury acquitting Parks of the murder of his mother-in-law and the attempted murder of his father-in-law.
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But doesn't seem like you could ever prove it 100%
 
Honestly sounds like bullshit. Some people really do eat while they sleep, but that's such a complex series of actions I can't really buy it. Especially given the attendant circumstances - remembering to use condoms, etc.
 
I'm sure that she was just sleep walking.

How did psychiatric counseling "cure" her?

Seems mighty fishy to me.
 
So aside from the one occasion where her husband discovered her in middle of the sexual act... does she just like sleepwalk back to her house and bedroom after the strangers are done with her every other time?

..?
 
gutshot said:
Who are the people agreeing to have sex with some random woman who just shows up at their house in the middle of the night?
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I seem to recall a study where a beautiful girl asked guys walking by one of three questions. Would they like a date? Would they like to go back to her place? And would they like to have sex?

The question with the highest percentage of yeses was the one about sex. Something like 75% (I believe) would have.
 
I still don't fully understand how such complex behaviour (I'm really thinking about driving and other activities) is possible without being conscious. I get that a lot of these tasks are routine and as such we've been conditioned to perform them without thinking, but to walk, drive and interact with other people while asleep?

Someone is bullshitting.
 
I swear this exact thing happened in an episode of House or something?

Or an episode of Sherlock. Nah I think it was House. There was some snarkiness involved.
 
Napoleonthechimp said:
I still don't fully understand how such complex behaviour (I'm really thinking about driving and other activities) is possible without being conscious. I get that a lot of these tasks are routine and as such we've been conditioned to perform them without thinking, but to walk, drive and interact with other people while asleep?

Someone is bullshitting.
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Sleepwalking is usually in a state of low consciousness. Turns out you don't really need a lot of consciousness for a lot of things, up to and including murder.
 
Valnen said:
If someone can get away with murder because they're not consenting to their own actions while sleep walking the decision would seem obvious to me.
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At the same time, if her behavior wasn't irregular than there was also no way for that person to know if she was sleepwalking or not.
 
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