Why do people sleepwalk?
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You have to dream or you lose brain function. Dreaming is a lot like living, in terms of how the brain works, so the brain has to disconnect the connection between what you think you’re doing and what you’re doing, or else you’d cause chaos and injure yourself in the waking world.
So in your dream, you’re walking to your office, and your brain says “hey, put it through the pipe to the legs, we’re walking here.” And that pipe is supposed to not go to the legs anymore, so your legs never get the command to walk, and you just stay in your bed peacefully. Sometimes, the pipe didn’t get shut off all the way. Or sometimes it got reconnected too early. So then your legs get the order to walk, and you get up and walk. Or talk, or whatever else one does in their sleep.
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