SLEEP-WALKERS

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2684, 17 January 1924, Page 4

SLEEP-WALKERS

REMARKABLE EXPERIENCES

Sleep-walker’s, though they often move in the most dangerous places 1 , says a London paper, very rarely come to harm unless they are abruptly awakened. But in one case recently, a lady fell out of a window in her sleep, awakening to find herself in the courtyard below the window. Somnambulists are supposed to be able to see with their fingers when sleep-walking. Extraordinary as this may sound, it has been proved over and over again that a sleep-walker who takes the precaution to put on gloves before going to bed will never walk in his sleep. The gloves should be firmly fastened at the wrists. Another preventative of sleepwalking is to put upon a carpet by the side of the sleep-walker's bed a strip of sheet metal, iron or zinc wide and long enough to make certain that in getting out of bed hi? feet will rest upon the metal. Tin sudden chill is bound to awake) him. Yet doctors say sleep-walking is more common in cold countries that in hot so that if you are given t< sleep-walking you should see to i that you are thoroughly warm n bed. . Another odd fact is that fair haired people are more given b sleep-walking than dark-hairoi folk. The feats of some confirmei sleep-walkers are absolutely nniaz ing. While sound asleep men hav been known to saddle and ride hor ses, to walk for miles, to tlives corn. One, a California)), aetuall swam two miles down a river, an continued his sleep ou the bank at ter leaving the water. Another, a schoolgirl, anxious t pass an examination, rose night af ter night, lit a candle, and studio vet she was totally unconscious o what she had done, and amazed t find that she knew her lessons who to all seeming recollection, she ha not yet opened her book. Odder still was the performaw of a tradesman at. Elsworth, Can bridgeshire, who one morning wok to find that in the night, he ha stripped all the paper off the wnl . i> Ki/-. l.n/lvArtnt