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Sleep Walking

Submitted by Margaux Kearney on Wed, 04/16/2008 - 7:17pm.

When I was young, I used to sleep walk from my room to my parent's room which was quite far down the hallway. My parents used to tell me that I had my eyes open and would engage in long conversations. However, I have absolutely no recollection of these events. Is this because I wasn't using my "I" function? Also, I was wondering how I was able to walk safely from point A to point B (the hallway twisted). Were my eyes "seeing" objects and transmitting the message to my brain which told my legs to move in another direction? Was it due instead to "muscle memory?" Because I had walked on this path before, did my body recognize which way to move?

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