Have you ever been told never to wake a sleepwalker, and just accepted it as fact without ever questioning where that rule came from?

The episode gets into the real sleep science behind sleepwalking, covering what the brain is actually doing during an episode, why sleepwalkers can navigate a room with their eyes open but have no memory of it, and what sleep disorders research actually says about the risks. Spoiler-free version: the folklore and the neuroscience tell very different stories.

What you were warned about as a kid turns out to be one of the most confidently repeated myths in sleep science.

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