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December 16, 2004
In their sleep
Ever thought that that attempt at seduction was so practiced that they could as well be seducing in their sleep? Well Australian sleep physician Peter Bucanan from Sydney’s Prince Alfred Hospital told the Australiasian Sleep Association about a Canberra patient who walked out of the house and seduced and had sex with strange men, and then woke up at home the next morning next to her husband, with no memory of the night’s events.
According to the June 2003 Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, people who suffer from “parasomnia”, can not only walk, but also drive a car, eat, have sex, or commit acts of violence, all without being awake and legally responsible for their actions. They catalogue eleven cases of initiating sex with someone in the household while asleep, but none of them included a seduction of an awake stranger in another building.
Dr Bucanan was skeptical at first, but convinced by the distress of the couple and their confusion.
The husband had been aware of some sleepwalking, and then had found strange condoms around the house. He eventually woke to find her missing one night and found her having sex with another man.
Dr Bucahan diagnosed her after extensive testing with sleep sex, a form of Rapid Eye Movement REM behavioural disorder, where her body wasn’t paralysed while sleeping, and so she was able to act out her dreams.
People only remember their dreams when they are woken during a dream, so people with REM behavioural disorder are often stunned and disbelieving when told what they have done.
Psychotherapy helps in half the cases, and medication can be helpful in others.