Scientists have long proven that dreams without dreams do not exist. Therefore, if a person says that he does not have dreams, you can safely not believe him. The brain of such a person is designed in such a way that it does not remember what he saw in his dreams. But the clearest proof that everyone dreams of dreams is sleepwalking or somnambulism.
This phenomenon is a deviation from the norm, because you need to sleep in bed, lying down. Nevertheless, the following happens in some people: when a person falls asleep and his consciousness is almost completely inhibited, a certain part of the brain is suddenly excited, controlling the actions of the sleeping person. There is a kind of split personality, about which the person after awakening practically does not remember anything. At the same time, some of the actions of sleepwalkers are quite complex, and in daylight these people are not able to repeat them.
It should be noted that stories about somnambulism are contained in ancient manuscripts, in particular in Egyptian papyri, works of Greek literature, and Roman annals. During the Middle Ages, sleepwalkers kept their flaw a secret, since then the fight against witches was especially widespread, and the well-known leadership of the "Witch's Hammer" considered sleepwalking as an obsession with evil spirits. It was recommended that such people be burned at the stake or drowned.
And only starting from the seventeenth century, when morals softened a little, sleepwalking ceased to be considered a sin. Moreover, such cases began to be described in historical chronicles. So, one of the most interesting and famous stories was considered the case that happened to the shoemaker E. Mandres from Barcelona. Every full moon he climbed the spiers of cathedrals and could sing songs for hours in an unfamiliar language. These songs were so beautiful that for a long time the churchmen did not dare to declare the shoemaker a heretic. Moreover, people from all over Spain came to Barcelona to hear beautiful singing. But everyone who wanted to hear him had to wait until nightfall, because during the day the shoemaker had no hearing and voice at all, and he himself categorically denied his own involvement in night concerts. The life of a shoemaker ended tragically:once someone called out to him from below. The man woke up from a loud sound and, having fallen from a great height, crashed to death.
Interestingly, people with such deviations were called lunatics, since it was previously believed that they make their night walks exclusively on the full moon. However, later it was found that the frequency of such night walks has nothing to do with the phases of the moon; it is much more convenient to simply observe such travels in bright moonlight.
According to research by scientists, in most cases, sleepwalkers perform actions that are a continuation of the activities that they did in the daytime: they wash, solve mathematical problems, draw, knit, write poetry. However, there are isolated cases when the actions of somnambulists are dangerous to others.
So, relatively recently in Austria there was a case in one of the military units, which by some miracle did without casualties. In the middle of the night, a driver-mechanic entered the vehicle fleet and, ramming the door, left the unit in his armored personnel carrier. He left in the direction of the nearest town along the highway, but at a sharp turn he could not cope with control, and the armored personnel carrier was in a ditch. When the outfit arrived at the scene of the accident, the hijacker was fast asleep in the driver's seat. After an investigation, it was established that the soldier was completely sober, but suffered from sleepwalking from early childhood.
As a rule, such lunatics are completely harmless, and cannot harm anyone. But there are times when people, against their own will, became bloodthirsty monsters who committed terrible, meaningless murders. So, in England there were two such sensational cases.
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The hero of the first of them was a man named B. McGill, who suffered from somnambulism since childhood, wandered the streets at night until he was detained by police for disturbing public order. He left his wife three times, who could no longer put up with her husband's night walks. Brandon even ended up in psychiatric clinics several times, but the drugs helped only for a month or two when he slept peacefully. Then attacks of sleepwalking resumed with renewed vigor.
In May 2002, he left the house at night and went in an unknown direction. On the way, he found himself in a supermarket security guard's car, left unattended with an ignition key. McGill got behind the wheel and raced through the streets of the city without following any rules. Soon a patrol was chasing him, but the lunatic only increased the gas, and as a result, at the crossing, he knocked down two passers-by. Then he also knocked down a policeman, who later died in intensive care. The police opened fire on the wheels, as a result of which the car skidded, and Brandon crashed into the store at high speed and knocked down the seller.
He himself was slightly injured, but when he woke up, he turned gray with horror. The police immediately grabbed him, but the alcohol test was negative. At the same time, doctors confirmed that all actions were performed in a state of complete irremovability. The judges were also divided, but in the end McGill was still sent to a psychiatric hospital for treatment.
The "hero" of the second case is 34-year-old Sheffield resident K. Paris. In his spare time, this man loved to watch thrillers, even despite the ban of a neuropathologist who consulted Christopher about his sleepwalking.
For a long time, the man did not have any problems with walking in his sleep, because he did not leave his own home. But in 1998, he and his wife got into a car accident that killed the woman. Paris himself got off with a concussion and bruises. According to experts, it was the head injury that provoked a new course of the disease. As Paris himself later said, the worst thing was that he did not remember anything about his crimes. He dreamed of nightmares in which the living dead were chasing him. When he woke up after the first murder, he saw that all his hands and pajamas were in blood, and a large kitchen knife was lying near the bed. Paris turned on the TV and heard that an unknown maniac had killed a 30-year-old man on a nearby street. Christopher was scared to go to the policebut he also did not want to seek help from a psychiatrist. Ultimately, the nightmare repeated itself. About a month later, he woke up again all bloody, on the floor he found a severed female ear with an earring. And on TV they said that the maniac attacked a 47-year-old woman. Paris wanted to hang himself, but unsuccessfully, then decided to swallow pills, but only ruined his stomach.
The man began to hide the knives in the safe, handcuff himself to the bed, but everything was useless, the murders continued. But in the end he was caught: one day he woke up from severe pain and saw that he was lying surrounded by police on the sidewalk. As it was found out later, Christopher attacked a bystander, but he managed to escape and report to the police. The patrol caught up with Paris near his house.
In total, 5 people became victims of this sleepwalker, two of whom survived. But the man made his attacks not only during the full moon. He was threatened with life imprisonment, but experts were able to prove that all the crimes were committed in a state of complete insanity. Therefore, Christopher Paris ended up in a psychiatric hospital.
There are many such cases, there is no particular need to describe them all, since they are all very similar to each other. I must say that psychiatrists and neuroscientists have so far failed to come to unambiguous conclusions regarding the causes of sleepwalking and somnambulism. Some experts are sure that these deviations are the result of severe stress, trauma and some diseases. After conducting research, American scientists came to the conclusion that the development of sleepwalking is due to specific changes in some genes. Their activation leads to a state resembling paralysis of the nervous system, which does not allow people to wake up. At the same time, scientists have not yet been able to determine which genes are responsible for a person's ability to walk at night and how these genes should change.
Some modern scientists say that night travel and any other physical activity in a state of sleep is possible only when the inhibition of the nervous system does not extend to those parts of the brain that are responsible for motor functions. The causes of such failures can be lesions of the cerebral cortex or nervous disorders.
But, it is worth noting that such a scientific conclusion does not explain the nature of sleepwalking, because a somnambulist person does not at all randomly move his arms and legs, but performs rather complex actions, which is impossible without the coordinated work of several brain centers at once. In addition, information about the environment must enter the brain and be processed there. The sleepwalker is not aware of what he is doing, but at the same time he acts reasonably enough: he bypasses obstacles, goes out through doors, purposefully uses objects, drives a car.
The actions of the sleepwalker are very similar to the behavior of a zombie that someone is controlling. And it was here that parapsychologists and lovers of mysticism joined in. They are sure that the essences of the subtle world enter the sleepwalkers. The victims of these entities, as a rule, are psychopaths and neurasthenics, who have holes in the energy shell. During sleep, the brain's control over the body becomes weaker, so it is much easier for an entity to capture a person and use him as a biorobot.
If we turn to medical statistics, then in children, periodic somnambulism is observed in 5 percent of cases. In practice, it looks like this: in a state of sleep, the child gets out of bed and goes on some unknown business, after which he must return to bed. In most cases, children, having matured, get rid of bouts of sleepwalking. But over time, after a nervous stress or breakdown, night travel may resume.
With the help of psychotherapists, it is possible to recover from somnambulism in very rare cases. Therefore, it is very important not to allow holes in energy protection.