Symptoms
Boys are more prone to sleepwalking than the girls.
Though sleep walking mainly affects children, some adults also experience this disorder. The frequency of sleep walking episodes may vary among victims – for some it could be as less as one event a month, while for others it could be regular nightly occurrences. Boys are more prone to sleep walk than girls.
There is no memory of the event.
During the episode, the sleep walker may portray strange expressions keeping the eyes wide open. Often with an empty look, the victim may talk gibberish all through the episode. Some may even use unparliamentary language, otherwise unheard of during the victim’s waking hours. Children may tend to urinate in undesignated places during such sleep walking episodes.