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The word: Sleepwalking

26 July 2006

A TEENAGE girl in London leaves her house and climbs to the top of a 40-metre crane. An Australian woman goes off in the middle of the night to have sex with strangers. A Canadian man drives 22 kilometres to his in-laws’ house, murders his mother-in-law and drives back home. Strange behaviour, but stranger still when you consider that all these people were asleep at the time.

Sleepwalking – technically, somnambulism – is the acting out of complex behaviour while sleeping. Actions can be anything from just stumbling about to driving, doing the laundry and even cooking. This year, many…

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