La Sonnambula - captives of the moon

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In the late 20-ies of XX century in one of the hospitals of Leningrad took place the following case. On duty night staff and patients suffering from insomnia, in amazement, watched one of the nurses walking on the ledge of the third floor. The girl was known all over the County, with its luxurious hair, which she wore in a long braid, to get almost to toe. That night the nurse took the scissors and cut off the maiden's beauty. It turned out that the girl suffers somnambulism, and all these actions made in his sleep.
Sleepwalking is an unconscious sleepwalking doctors call somnambulism. About the lunatics knew in ancient times. Quite unfairly such people are shunned, feared and even killed. Since the time of Christ sleepwalking is considered a disease. About it is mentioned in the New Testament. The Evangelist Matthew, in particular, indicates the ability of Christ to heal "...all sick people afflicted with various diseases and seizures, and demoniacs, and lunatics" (Chapter 4, p. 24).

The sleepwalker is in a state border between sleep and wakefulness. People restless sleep, shudders, speaks gibberish, can sit on the bed to get up and walk around the house, even to go outside, avoiding all obstacles along the way. Eyes wide open, facial expression meaningless.

Known cases of lunatics incredible action during sleep. In 1983, in England, the lunatic from Portsmouth got out of bed, got into the car, started it and drove about fifty miles. Surprisingly, he managed to avoid the accident. In the foreign press reported about the artists-the sleepwalkers that draws in sleep patterns.

The causes of somnambulism has not been fully elucidated, doctors attribute it to one of the types of nervous disorders. Human sleep consists of several stages - from light sleep to deep sleep. During REM sleep a person dreams, and his eyeballs to make quick movements. This phase is followed by the phase of deep sleep. This happens several times a night.
All that day we found out the doctors: go somnambulists during a deep sleep shortly after falling asleep, or, conversely, closer to the morning.

According to popular belief, night walking causes the magic influence of the moon. Science denies this cause, although some connection is definitely there. Earth satellite in varying degrees affects all the processes in animate and inanimate nature of the planet. The moon stabilizes the climate, equalizing the temperature. A number of species of insects and fish propagated in concert with the phases of the moon.

During a full moon often occur heart attacks and exacerbation of various diseases, is more accidents and traffic accidents. Full moon people are more tired and more irritated. Perhaps the Moon, affecting the nervous system, excites her, provoking a night of wandering lunatics, whose psyche the already overexcited. With somnambulism is associated with many tales and rumors. In ancient times, in some countries it was believed that lunatics worship a demon goddess of destruction and the evil Lilith, helping to implement on the ground her evil plans. Cases are known when the lunatics recognized the mad and was institutionalized. With the consolidation in Europe of Christianity established a belief that during sleep the soul leaves the human body and if you Wake a sleepwalker, he will remain without a soul.

The literature describes the case when a boy, being in a state of somnambulistic sleep, ran across the river on the surface of the water. All these speculations have nothing to do with reality, as well as the tale about the magical power of the moon

Have you ever suffered from sleepwalking or met anyone with this disease ?

Tatka Armless.

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