NEWS: Insomnia, Sexomnia, Divorsomnia?

CULTURE: Insomnia, Sexsomnia, Divorsomnia?

Walking and talking in ones sleep has long been considered a relatively normal, if not somewhat unsettling behavior. From Shakespeare's famously sleepwalking Lady Macbeth, to 80s pop songs like The Romantics "Talking in Your Sleep", parasomnias such as these are pretty run-of-the-mill. But having sex in your sleep? Divorcing your wife while you slumber? These are two of the latest strange sleep behaviors to make headlines.

CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta recently offered this piece on Sexsomnia, also known as sleepsex or SBS (Sexual Behavior in Sleep). Within the past year, two men accused of sexual assault blamed sexsomnia: in Massachusetts, Richard Anderson was sentenced to three years probation and in Canada, Jan Luedecke was acquitted.

Today, a Muslim man in eastern India is in the news for less dangerous but much more absurd sleep behavior: Divorce.

I once had a boyfriend who, in the middle of the night and in a deep state of slumber, collected me into his arms, kissed me tenderly on the cheek and said, "Thanks, mom!" Oedipusomnia?

sexsominia is definitly real. There is a actually cognito-behavioural techniques used to treat it (can't remember them at the moment).

As for the talaq thing. It has to be said three times in succession with WHILE BEING FULLY CONCIOUS.

Well, at least he didn't hire a lawyer to draw up a divorce contract in his sleep...

I didn't think that muslims were such big fans of Freud.

I was sleeping with my girly recently, arms wrapped around her, one behind her neck and head, the other around her waist. Fell asleep.
Awoke still semi asleep and thought, for whatever reason, that I had captured a burgler in a headlock. I lept out of bed only to realise what had happened. She hardly noticed thank god

My boyfriend has Refridgeratsomnia... he gets up, sleep walks to the fridge, and starts eating whatever he can get. One night, i found him naked, squating in front of the fridge eating all the roast beef, i told him i would make him a sandwich and he replied "stop talking you'll wake me up"..

Next time i bought roast beef, i hid it under 3 day leftovers in the BACK of the fridge... no avail, he can smell the blood, i swear. It was gone in the morning.

Yup. My wife complained that she's woken up to me molesting her and I had no memory of it. Hasn't happened in a few years, most likely due to the medications I'm on for other issues.

I used to do that all the time, before I went on anti-depressants.
Hasn't happened since I staretd with the medication though.

Might be linked to serotonin in some way.

SSRIs work for everything

Sleep is not the same as unconsciousness.

hehehehe you need to write more