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Sleepwalking should not be confused with alcohol- or drug-induced blackouts, which can result in amnesia for events similar to sleepwalking. During an alcohol-induced blackout (drug-related amnesia) , a person is able to actively engage and respond to their environment (e.g. having conversations or driving a vehicle), however the brain does not ...
Sleepwalking can lead to quality of life issues such as daytime sleepiness and excess fatigue. Although less common, sleepwalking can result in injury to the sleepwalker or another person, if the ...
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Sleepwalker (comics), a Marvel Comics character The Sleepwalker, a 2008 novel by Robert Muchamore; The Sleepwalker (Fear Street), a 1990 novel by R. L. Stine; The Sleepwalkers (Broch novel), a 1930s novel in three parts by Hermann Broch
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Sleep-talking appears in Shakespeare's Macbeth, the famous sleepwalking scene. Lady Macbeth, in a "slumbery agitation", is observed by a gentlewoman and doctor to walk in her sleep and wash her hands, and utter the famous line, "Out, damned spot! out, I say!" (Act 5, Scene 1). [12]
The historian of astronomy Owen Gingerich, while acknowledging that Koestler's book contributed to his interest in the history of science, described it as "highly questionable" and criticized its treatment of historical figures as fictional. [5]
The Sleepwalking Lady Macbeth by Johann Heinrich Füssli, late 18th century. (Musée du Louvre) The sleepwalking scene is a critically celebrated scene from William Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth (1606). Carrying a taper (candlestick), Lady Macbeth enters sleepwalking. The Doctor and the Gentlewoman stand aside to observe.