Somnambulism, commonly known as sleepwalking, is a sleep disorder classified as a non-REM parasomnia. Those affected perform complex motor actions while in deep sleep\u2014such as getting out of bed, walking around, and in rare cases even driving a car or leaving the house\u2014without being aware of it or remembering it the next morning. Triggers include sleep deprivation, stress, fever, certain medications, and\u2014frequently\u2014genetic predisposition. Sleepwalking is widespread: up to 15% of children and 4% of adults are affected. As a special theme in literature, sleepwalking is exceptionally productive from a narrative perspective: A character who acts at night without the knowledge of their daytime self creates the ultimate variant of the unreliable narrator. Did they do anything? Were they there? What do the traces mean? Particularly intriguing: the legal dimension\u2014under German law, sleepwalkers are not criminally liable if they commit a crime while in this state. A perpetrator who remembers nothing is not a liar. Or are they?<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Somnambulismus, umgangssprachlich Nachtwandeln oder Schlafwandeln, ist eine Schlafst\u00f6rung aus der Gruppe der Non-REM-Parasomnien. Betroffene f\u00fchren im Tiefschlaf komplexe motorische Handlungen aus \u2013 Aufstehen, Herumgehen, in seltenen F\u00e4llen sogar Autofahren oder die Wohnung verlassen \u2013 ohne dabei bewusst zu sein oder sich am n\u00e4chsten Morgen daran zu erinnern. Ausl\u00f6ser sind Schlafentzug, Stress, Fieber, bestimmte Medikamente und […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":3961,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"fact-type":[],"class_list":["post-3962","fact-file","type-fact-file","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":{"ff_id":"","ff_wiki_type":"Sonderthema","ff_category":"topics","ff_subtype":"","ff_image_url":"","ff_parent_book":"","ff_appereance":[1035],"fileimg":3961},"yoast_head":"\n