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Be Thankful If They Just Snore

Posted by michael on from the falling-falling-falling-splat dept.

The NYT is running has a lengthy piece in their weekend supplement about sleep disorders. Besides a certain amount of humor value, the article covers sleep terrors and sleepwalking and even weirder disorders.

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  1. Obligatory Simpsons Night Terror Quote by elnerdoricardo · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Edna: Alright, now who can pick up the predicate in this sentence.
    Homer: :screams in sleep:
    Edna: What's wrong with him now, Bart?
    Bart: Night terrors, ma'am.
    Homer: AHH! Cobras!

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  2. sleepwalking people are scary by nich37ways · · Score: 0, Redundant
    A long time ago I went camping with a bunch of friends at a camp site. A couple of guys went to sleep and the rest of us stayed up talking.

    At about 1 in the morning one of the guys got up and proceeded to walk down to the toilets. He walked straight passed us, ignoring everything we said to him.
    So we ran after him and he was completly asleep. Freaking scary because he got all the way to the toilets, about 200m away through trees and over guide ropes. He then walked all the way back moving around the trees and steping over the ropes again, completly oblivious to us talking to him and trying to figure out if he was awake. He proceeded to get out his sleeping bag unroll it and climb in and go to sleep(some more sleep anyway).

    Nothing is worse then sleep walkers cause they move around normally but act as if you are not there if you try and talk to them.

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