Sleepwalking

Date Submitted: 09/09/2006 23:15:31
Category: / Social Sciences / Psychology
Length: 2 pages (528 words)
What is sleepwalking about? Sleepwalking is the disorder that a child wakes up partly, but not completely, at the night. It causes walking or other behaviors while the person may not remember it at all. However, sleepwalk doesn't mean one has an emotional problem, and they would be out-grown soon. It's hard to believe that, from a medical report: 18% of the population is prone to sleepwalking. On one hand, although some of the adult may …
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…make him/her feel ashamed about it. Can sleepwalking be a murder defense? Possibly. Actually there were at least 20 cases where defense against a murder charge was "I was sleepwalking and therefore, I was not myself at the time I murdered [him/her]..." And the argument has been successful at times. So, next time, when you get somebody mad at you, don't let him/her sleep in the same room as you with weapons aside.
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