Parasomnias are the class of sleep disorders associated with abnormal sleeptime behavior. One of the most common ones is sleepwalking. People can do some crazy things during sleepwalking and wake up and not even realize what they've done. For example, a man named Ken Parks was sleeping, rolled out of bed, got in his car drove to his inlaws house and stabbed his mother in law, and strangled his father in law. After he did that, he drove himself to the police station. Once he got there, he said "I think I have killed some people...my hands." To make it even more crazy, the jury declared him NOT guilty. That's just one example of how crazy something can be that a person does while sleep walking. The weird thing is they wake up, they don't know what they did. These stories make me thankful I can sleep normally without waking up and doing some kind of bizarre action.
Timothy Brueggeman is a 51 year old electrician from Wisconsin. One night he sleepwalked out of his bed and outside his home, only wearing a fleece shirt and his underwear. The temperature was -16°F and leaving many people to wonder how such cold weather didn't wake him up. investigators believe he stayed asleep because they found a bottle of ambien, which is a sleeping pill and is not supposed to be used with alcohol. They think that that may be the reason he stayed asleep in that kind of weather and eventually died of hypothermia.
Lee Hadwin is a nurse during the day but by night he is a sleepwalking artist. He has no recalling what he draws the night before and the morning when he awakes. Its interesting because in the daytime if he tried to draw he wouldn't be able to, but his sketches in his sleep are so detailed and he can draw. His periods of sleep drawing last anywhere from 20 minutes to an hour and a half. His sleepwalking started when he was younger and has progressed since. When he first started putting his drawings on the walls. He doesn't draw in color but only in black and white. The sketches he draws are random but very portrayed in his work.
Late one night Daniel;s little sister came to her room while she was brushing her teeth and getting ready for bed. Daniel realized her sister was sleepwalking and was told that she needed to take a bath. Before Daniel could stop her sister she had already jumped in the tub with her night gown on. Her little sister sat there and then started to cry as soon as she woke up.
Robert Wood makes meals while asleep. At age 4 he began this occurrence 5 times a week. Robert believes the root of the cause is an ulcer that allows him to only eat small portions of food at a time. Due to the small amount of food per sitting, he concludes he becomes hungry at night and heads to the kitchen. He normally sleeps in bead for about three hours, then heads for food, sleep studies reveal. His wife has become concerned about the numerous potential accidents involved in the habit.
In May 2009, a sleepwalking teenager stepped out of the bedroom window at her home and plunged 25 feet to the ground. Rachel Ward had got out of bed and pulled on a jumper before stepping, unconsciously, from the second floor of the house. She landed feet first on a narrow strip of grass next to her car, before collapsing. Semi-conscious, she screamed for help and her parents took her to hospital. There tests revealed she hadn't broken a single bone. It was only the following day that Miss Ward, an 18-year-old, finally woke up fully.
Tobias Wong was a 35 year old artist who had a sever case of sleep walking and night terrors and ended up killing himself in his sleep. Most of the time he would do complex tasks like cooking meals, search on the internet, or preparing and sending out bills to his clients he had. The combined affect of the night terrors and his sleep walking caused him to end up killing himself in his sleep in the month of May.
Parasomnias are sleep disorders dealing with abnormal sleeptime behavior, one of the most common ones is sleepwalking. People can do some abnormal things during sleepwalking and wake up and not even realize what they had done. For example, detectives discover a historical precedent for killing while sleepwalking.This is a leading Supreme Court of Canada decision on the criminal,Kenneth Parks, a 23-year old married father, arose from the couch where he had fallen asleep in front of the tv, put on his coat, and drove 14 miles to the house of his in-laws. There, he strangled his father-in-law until unconscious and then bludgeoned his mother-in-law with a tire iron before stabbing them both with a kitchen knife. The woman died; the man barely survived. From all accounts, Parks had been very close with his in-laws and seemed to lack motive for the attack. However, Parks was recently unemployed and under a lot of stress. The evening of the attack, he may have been thinking about visiting his in-laws the following day with his wife, to tell them about his financial and gambling problems. After the attack, Parks got in his car and drove to a police station, confused. He appeared oblivious to the fact that he'd severed tendons in both of his hands. His strong family history of parasomnias led experts to testify that Parks had been sleepwalking during the attack.It appears as though the victims had found Parks wandering around in their house and, in attempting to restrain him, provoked the attack. Parks was acquitted of murder. Not conscious, not responsible, not guilty.
In this article I found several cases of people with sleeping disorders having sexual intercourse,driving a car, cooking and jumping out of their windows from upstair landing on there feet and not braking anything leaving a six foot deep indent in the ground. People with these disorders are completely unconscious but there bodies are still capable off acting like there awake.
A man named Chris Sheldrick was a muscican at Eton until a terrible sleep walking incident. He had been a sleepwalker for years and it had never been dangerous until one night when he was staying with a friend he severed eight tendons, a nerve, and an artery in his arm due to punching through a glass window paine in his sleep. He says that he couldnt remember what happened and he had to follow the trail of his blood to find out. he was no longer able to play his instruments or continue being a muscican.
In this article it talks about a woman from Australia who had sex with multiple men while sleep walking.In her teenage years, the woman was known to have sleep talked in her sleep.Also, she had a higher number of arousals in her deep sleep than whenawake. At first there was sexual evidences scattered occasionally around the house, such as condoms, but the woman was married and he had later on found her in a sexual act in the middle of the night. A physician had defended her case ad proved that this is a sleeping cause, therefore, the woman is not doing it intensionally.
Sleepwalking is when a person is fully asleep but functioning as if they were awake. This phenomenon shows that you can get distinctively human behavior without consciousness. There have been many weird cases of what people have been doing in there sleep. ABC news did a report on a 44 year old woman who has a severe case of sleepwalking. In her sleep she would email people inviting them to things and would wake up not realizing what she did. This caused her to invite friends to dinner parties she was hosting and when her friends said they could go she wouldn't know what they were talking about. People have been reported driving, having sex and cooking full meals all while asleep without knowing or able to recall what happened.
In 1987 a Canadian man killed his mother in law while in his sleep..(talk about not liking your in-laws). While in his sleep he drove 14 miles to her house and began strangling and beating his father in law. After knocking him unconscious, he began brutally stabbing his mother in law and hitting her with a tire iron until she was dead. After the homicide the man went to the police department. Covered in blood the man seemed out of place and odd said some cops. Somehow during the attack the man tore ligaments in both his hands and was oblivious to the pain while at the department. The cops noticed that and realized he had been sleep walking. During the case the judge ruled him not guilty due to sleep walking.
Lee Hadwin is an ordinary man with an ordinary job as a nurse. He has suffered from sleepwalking for years; His first sleepwalking experience was when he was just a child. However, these episodes of sleepwalking were far from normal. Lee is an artist in his sleep. During the day he could be less interested with art. However, when he goes to sleep, he creates masterpieces. He used to wake up with drawings all over his house, including on the walls. Now he leaves out art supplies before he goes to bed, and wakes up to beautiful works of art. Several galleries are interested in displaying his work because of the uniqueness of its creation.
Kenneth Parks, a 23-year-old Toronto man with a wife and infant daughter, was suffering from severe insomnia caused by joblessness and gambling debts.The morning of May 23, 1987 he woke up, got in his car and drove 23 kilometers to his in-laws’ house. He stabbed to death his mother-in-law, who she loved and had once referred to him as “a gentle giant.” Parks also assaulted his father in law, who survived the attack. He then drove to the police and said “I think I have killed some people… my hands,” only then realizing he had severely cut his own hands. Under police arrest he was taken to the hospital where he went through repair of several flex-or tendons of both hands.Because he could not remember anything about the murder and assault, had no motive for the crime whatsoever, and did have a history of sleepwalking, his team of defense experts (psychiatrists, a psychologist, a neurologist and a sleep specialist) concluded Ken Parks was ‘asleep’ when he committed the crime, and was unaware of his actions.
A woman who lives in Australia was sleepwalking and having sex with strangers for several months. She had no memory of any of these activities throughout the nights. One time during this sleepwalking experience her partner woke and she was gone so her partner went looking for her. Her partner found her having sexual intercourse with another person. The combination of many factors convinced doctor Peter Buchanan that indeed these acts were done in the patients sleep.
Sleepwalking can be very mild or turn out to be a very serious condidition that can impact people in a serious way. A man named Alan Ball back in 2007 went to a new years eve party became heavily drunk and passed out on a sofe. During the night he eventually woke up and went upstairs and kissed an underaged girl on the lips. This 35 year old man was not able to see his daughter for quite some time and says that he could'nt recall any of the events that night.
One day, a young woman named Rebecca Armstrong, sleep MOWED her lawn while being in the nude. She was mowing at night time, when she awoke countless neighbors. When they came out their houses enraged, they noticed that she wasn’t fully clothed or clothed at all. When they started uproar, she woke up and ran back into her house embarrassed as can be. This is showing how you can do full human functions while being unconscious.
Rachel Ward stepped out of her bedroom window. She plunged 25ft to the ground. She had got out of bed and put on a jacket before making her dramatic, unconscious exit from her bedroom window. She landed feet first in the grass next to her car, leaving six-inch marks in the ground, before collapsing. Semi-conscious, she screamed for help and was taken to the hospital. There, to the amazement of doctors, tests revealed she hadn't broken a single bone. it wasnt till the next day that she woke, to find out what had happened.
Kenneth Parks was a 23 year old man who lived near Toronto, Canada with his wife and young infant daughter. Kenneth was going through troubling time as he lost his job due to embezzlement and suffered from a severe gambling problem that put him into a major debt. As a result from this he began to develop a high level of stress which led to insomnia. Insomnia is the inability to sleep. This eventuallty led to problems with kenneth sleep walking. One night ( while still asleep) he drove 14 miles to his wifes parents home and broke into the house where he ended up assaulting and killing them. Soon after kenneth drove himself to the police station to turn himself in and repeated the words "I think i have killed some people with my bare hands" over and over. Parks claimed he remembered nothing from that night and said he must have been sleep walking. Kenneth Parks faced no charges in this case and was set free on the grounds of sleep walking.
One night, Police were called because of a possible suicide attempt on a crane. People thought that there was a person that was going to throw themselves off the crane. A young girl was perched 130 feet in the air. A fireman climbed the crane and found her curled up sleeping. The fifteen year old girl was sleepwalking so hard, that she climbed a crane. The fireman not wanting to alarm her and make her fall, he went through her personal belongings and called her parents. Her phone rang, allowing her to wake up. Two and a half hours later, she was eventually brought down by hydraulic lift and taken to hospital for checks but was found to have suffered no ill effects. Her parents said that she had a long history of sleepwalking.
A man in Kentucky fell asleep in a hotel lobby. When a worker tried to wake him he rose and shot him 3 times. He got up and left and told someone he had shot someone and felt sorry for it. He was initially proven guilty until the doctor told the court he had a lifelong history of sleep walking. He was released on account of being asleep when it happened.
Parasomnias are the class of sleep disorders associated with abnormal sleeptime behavior. One of the most common ones is sleepwalking. People can do some crazy things during sleepwalking and wake up and not even realize what they've done. For example, a man named Ken Parks was sleeping, rolled out of bed, got in his car drove to his inlaws house and stabbed his mother in law, and strangled his father in law. After he did that, he drove himself to the police station. Once he got there, he said "I think I have killed some people...my hands." To make it even more crazy, the jury declared him NOT guilty. That's just one example of how crazy something can be that a person does while sleep walking. The weird thing is they wake up, they don't know what they did. These stories make me thankful I can sleep normally without waking up and doing some kind of bizarre action.
ReplyDeleteTimothy Brueggeman is a 51 year old electrician from Wisconsin. One night he sleepwalked out of his bed and outside his home, only wearing a fleece shirt and his underwear. The temperature was -16°F and leaving many people to wonder how such cold weather didn't wake him up. investigators believe he stayed asleep because they found a bottle of ambien, which is a sleeping pill and is not supposed to be used with alcohol. They think that that may be the reason he stayed asleep in that kind of weather and eventually died of hypothermia.
ReplyDeleteLee Hadwin is a nurse during the day but by night he is a sleepwalking artist. He has no recalling what he draws the night before and the morning when he awakes. Its interesting because in the daytime if he tried to draw he wouldn't be able to, but his sketches in his sleep are so detailed and he can draw. His periods of sleep drawing last anywhere from 20 minutes to an hour and a half. His sleepwalking started when he was younger and has progressed since. When he first started putting his drawings on the walls. He doesn't draw in color but only in black and white. The sketches he draws are random but very portrayed in his work.
ReplyDeleteLate one night Daniel;s little sister came to her room while she was brushing her teeth and getting ready for bed. Daniel realized her sister was sleepwalking and was told that she needed to take a bath. Before Daniel could stop her sister she had already jumped in the tub with her night gown on. Her little sister sat there and then started to cry as soon as she woke up.
ReplyDeleteRobert Wood makes meals while asleep. At age 4 he began this occurrence 5 times a week. Robert believes the root of the cause is an ulcer that allows him to only eat small portions of food at a time. Due to the small amount of food per sitting, he concludes he becomes hungry at night and heads to the kitchen. He normally sleeps in bead for about three hours, then heads for food, sleep studies reveal. His wife has become concerned about the numerous potential accidents involved in the habit.
ReplyDeleteIn May 2009, a sleepwalking teenager stepped out of the bedroom window at her home and plunged 25 feet to the ground. Rachel Ward had got out of bed and pulled on a jumper before stepping, unconsciously, from the second floor of the house. She landed feet first on a narrow strip of grass next to her car, before collapsing. Semi-conscious, she screamed for help and her parents took her to hospital. There tests revealed she hadn't broken a single bone. It was only the following day that Miss Ward, an 18-year-old, finally woke up fully.
ReplyDeleteTobias Wong was a 35 year old artist who had a sever case of sleep walking and night terrors and ended up killing himself in his sleep. Most of the time he would do complex tasks like cooking meals, search on the internet, or preparing and sending out bills to his clients he had. The combined affect of the night terrors and his sleep walking caused him to end up killing himself in his sleep in the month of May.
ReplyDeleteParasomnias are sleep disorders dealing with abnormal sleeptime behavior, one of the most common ones is sleepwalking. People can do some abnormal things during sleepwalking and wake up and not even realize what they had done. For example, detectives discover a historical precedent for killing while sleepwalking.This is a leading Supreme Court of Canada decision on the criminal,Kenneth Parks, a 23-year old married father, arose from the couch where he had fallen asleep in front of the tv, put on his coat, and drove 14 miles to the house of his in-laws. There, he strangled his father-in-law until unconscious and then bludgeoned his mother-in-law with a tire iron before stabbing them both with a kitchen knife. The woman died; the man barely survived. From all accounts, Parks had been very close with his in-laws and seemed to lack motive for the attack. However, Parks was recently unemployed and under a lot of stress. The evening of the attack, he may have been thinking about visiting his in-laws the following day with his wife, to tell them about his financial and gambling problems. After the attack, Parks got in his car and drove to a police station, confused. He appeared oblivious to the fact that he'd severed tendons in both of his hands. His strong family history of parasomnias led experts to testify that Parks had been sleepwalking during the attack.It appears as though the victims had found Parks wandering around in their house and, in attempting to restrain him, provoked the attack. Parks was acquitted of murder. Not conscious, not responsible, not guilty.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.thephuketnews.com/big-list-strange-sleepwalking-stories-26738.php
ReplyDeleteIn this article I found several cases of people with sleeping disorders having sexual intercourse,driving a car, cooking and jumping out of their windows from upstair landing on there feet and not braking anything leaving a six foot deep indent in the ground. People with these disorders are completely unconscious but there bodies are still capable off acting like there awake.
A man named Chris Sheldrick was a muscican at Eton until a terrible sleep walking incident. He had been a sleepwalker for years and it had never been dangerous until one night when he was staying with a friend he severed eight tendons, a nerve, and an artery in his arm due to punching through a glass window paine in his sleep. He says that he couldnt remember what happened and he had to follow the trail of his blood to find out. he was no longer able to play his instruments or continue being a muscican.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.newscientist.com/article/dn6540-sleepwalking-woman-had-sex-with-strangers.html
ReplyDeleteIn this article it talks about a woman from Australia who had sex with multiple men while sleep walking.In her teenage years, the woman was known to have sleep talked in her sleep.Also, she had a higher number of arousals in her deep sleep than whenawake. At first there was sexual evidences scattered occasionally around the house, such as condoms, but the woman was married and he had later on found her in a sexual act in the middle of the night. A physician had defended her case ad proved that this is a sleeping cause, therefore, the woman is not doing it intensionally.
Sleepwalking is when a person is fully asleep but functioning as if they were awake. This phenomenon shows that you can get distinctively human behavior without consciousness. There have been many weird cases of what people have been doing in there sleep. ABC news did a report on a 44 year old woman who has a severe case of sleepwalking. In her sleep she would email people inviting them to things and would wake up not realizing what she did. This caused her to invite friends to dinner parties she was hosting and when her friends said they could go she wouldn't know what they were talking about. People have been reported driving, having sex and cooking full meals all while asleep without knowing or able to recall what happened.
ReplyDeleteIn 1987 a Canadian man killed his mother in law while in his sleep..(talk about not liking your in-laws). While in his sleep he drove 14 miles to her house and began strangling and beating his father in law. After knocking him unconscious, he began brutally stabbing his mother in law and hitting her with a tire iron until she was dead. After the homicide the man went to the police department. Covered in blood the man seemed out of place and odd said some cops. Somehow during the attack the man tore ligaments in both his hands and was oblivious to the pain while at the department. The cops noticed that and realized he had been sleep walking. During the case the judge ruled him not guilty due to sleep walking.
ReplyDeleteLee Hadwin is an ordinary man with an ordinary job as a nurse. He has suffered from sleepwalking for years; His first sleepwalking experience was when he was just a child. However, these episodes of sleepwalking were far from normal. Lee is an artist in his sleep. During the day he could be less interested with art. However, when he goes to sleep, he creates masterpieces. He used to wake up with drawings all over his house, including on the walls. Now he leaves out art supplies before he goes to bed, and wakes up to beautiful works of art. Several galleries are interested in displaying his work because of the uniqueness of its creation.
ReplyDeleteKenneth Parks, a 23-year-old Toronto man with a wife and infant daughter, was suffering from severe insomnia caused by joblessness and gambling debts.The morning of May 23, 1987 he woke up, got in his car and drove 23 kilometers to his in-laws’ house. He stabbed to death his mother-in-law, who she loved and had once referred to him as “a gentle giant.” Parks also assaulted his father in law, who survived the attack. He then drove to the police and said “I think I have killed some people… my hands,” only then realizing he had severely cut his own hands. Under police arrest he was taken to the hospital where he went through repair of several flex-or tendons of both hands.Because he could not remember anything about the murder and assault, had no motive for the crime whatsoever, and did have a history of sleepwalking, his team of defense experts (psychiatrists, a psychologist, a neurologist and a sleep specialist) concluded Ken Parks was ‘asleep’ when he committed the crime, and was unaware of his actions.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.newscientist.com/article/dn6540-sleepwalking-woman-had-sex-with-strangers.html
ReplyDeleteA woman who lives in Australia was sleepwalking and having sex with strangers for several months. She had no memory of any of these activities throughout the nights. One time during this sleepwalking experience her partner woke and she was gone so her partner went looking for her. Her partner found her having sexual intercourse with another person. The combination of many factors convinced doctor Peter Buchanan that indeed these acts were done in the patients sleep.
http://www.oddee.com/item_96680.aspx
ReplyDeleteSleepwalking can be very mild or turn out to be a very serious condidition that can impact people in a serious way.
A man named Alan Ball back in 2007 went to a new years eve party became heavily drunk and passed out on a sofe. During the night he eventually woke up and went upstairs and kissed an underaged girl on the lips. This 35 year old man was not able to see his daughter for quite some time and says that he could'nt recall any of the events that night.
One day, a young woman named Rebecca Armstrong, sleep MOWED her lawn while being in the nude. She was mowing at night time, when she awoke countless neighbors. When they came out their houses enraged, they noticed that she wasn’t fully clothed or clothed at all. When they started uproar, she woke up and ran back into her house embarrassed as can be. This is showing how you can do full human functions while being unconscious.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.oddee.com/item_96680.aspx
ReplyDeleteRachel Ward stepped out of her bedroom window. She plunged 25ft to the ground. She had got out of bed and put on a jacket before making her dramatic, unconscious exit from her bedroom window. She landed feet first in the grass next to her car, leaving six-inch marks in the ground, before collapsing. Semi-conscious, she screamed for help and was taken to the hospital. There, to the amazement of doctors, tests revealed she hadn't broken a single bone. it wasnt till the next day that she woke, to find out what had happened.
http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/criminal_mind/psychology/automatism/1_index.html
ReplyDeleteKenneth Parks was a 23 year old man who lived near Toronto, Canada with his wife and young infant daughter. Kenneth was going through troubling time as he lost his job due to embezzlement and suffered from a severe gambling problem that put him into a major debt. As a result from this he began to develop a high level of stress which led to insomnia. Insomnia is the inability to sleep. This eventuallty led to problems with kenneth sleep walking. One night ( while still asleep) he drove 14 miles to his wifes parents home and broke into the house where he ended up assaulting and killing them. Soon after kenneth drove himself to the police station to turn himself in and repeated the words "I think i have killed some people with my bare hands" over and over. Parks claimed he remembered nothing from that night and said he must have been sleep walking. Kenneth Parks faced no charges in this case and was set free on the grounds of sleep walking.
http://www.cracked.com/article/145_the-7-most-insane-things-people-have-done-while-sleepwalking/
ReplyDeleteOne night, Police were called because of a possible suicide attempt on a crane. People thought that there was a person that was going to throw themselves off the crane. A young girl was perched 130 feet in the air. A fireman climbed the crane and found her curled up sleeping. The fifteen year old girl was sleepwalking so hard, that she climbed a crane. The fireman not wanting to alarm her and make her fall, he went through her personal belongings and called her parents. Her phone rang, allowing her to wake up. Two and a half hours later, she was eventually brought down by hydraulic lift and taken to hospital for checks but was found to have suffered no ill effects. Her parents said that she had a long history of sleepwalking.
http://health.usnews.com/health-news/family-health/sleep/articles/2009/05/08/7-criminal-cases-that-invoked-the-sleepwalking-defense
ReplyDeleteA man in Kentucky fell asleep in a hotel lobby. When a worker tried to wake him he rose and shot him 3 times. He got up and left and told someone he had shot someone and felt sorry for it. He was initially proven guilty until the doctor told the court he had a lifelong history of sleep walking. He was released on account of being asleep when it happened.