When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Getty Images Experiencing a parasomnia, like sleep walking, can feel disturbing.

Identifying parasomnias during sleep Parasomnias are undesirable physical or experiential events that occur during sleep as movements, emotions, perceptions, and dreams. A parasomnia is an undesirable ...

Imagine waking up in the morning only to be told that you didn’t spend all night curled up in bed. Instead, you maybe drove a car or ate last night’s leftover pizza. Perhaps you even initiated sex ...

Child night terror. Parasomnias usually occur in healthy children, but the differential can include neurologic, psychiatric, and mental disorders, so careful ...

SEATTLE -- Children who have night terrors associated with restless leg syndrome appear amenable to treatment with ferritin supplements, researchers reported here at SLEEP 2015, the annual meeting of ...

June 11, 2009 (Seattle, Washington) — A new study indicates that patients with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) also have a high frequency of parasomnias. The central message of the research is: "When ...

Part scientist, part detective, Michel Cramer Bornemann explains some of the most mysterious — and deadliest — sleep disorders ever studied. The elderly man woke up one night to find himself in a bed ...

Parasomnia meaning "around sleep" are a group of undesirable, episodic events that usually occur during sleep, or are exaggerated by sleep. Parasomnia is associated with conditions such as sleep ...

Insufficient or disrupted sleep can be a profoundly isolating experience. All around you, it seems, the bright-eyed and well-rested go merrily about their days, while you're calculating exactly how ...

Have you ever ended up texting someone in your sleep? These messages would make little or no sense at all and you may have no memory of sending them. Sleep texting can be considered a form of sleep ...