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112: The Science of Sleepwalking

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Comedy, Education, Science

4.9 • 640 Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2021

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

We know that some people can walk around while fast asleep, but how does it work? What else can you do in your sleep? What would happen if you broke the law? 

Science might have the answers…

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References & Further Reading

Sleepwalking Basics
  1. https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/sleepwalking/
  2. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28363449/
  3. https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(18)31288-0?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS0960982218312880%3Fshowall%3Dtrue
  4. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17931980/
  5. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-science-of-sleepwalking-97626685/
  6. https://n.neurology.org/content/78/20/1583

Sleepwalking & The Law
  1. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15229043/
  2. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1286639/
  3. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4506454/
  4. https://www.sleep.theclinics.com/article/S1556-407X(11)00086-5/fulltext
  5. Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain (2011) David Eagleman

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Transcript

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0:00.0

What are we starting with this week?

0:02.0

Ooh, were you review?

0:04.0

No.

0:05.0

Spotify update.

0:06.0

Well done.

0:07.0

Yay!

0:08.0

Yeah!

0:09.0

How many folders do you think we've got on Spotify?

0:10.0

16,000.

0:11.0

Okay.

0:12.0

Actually, do you know what?

0:13.0

14,000.

0:14.0

That's closer.

0:15.0

13,000.

0:16.0

No, that's...

0:17.0

14,500.

0:18.0

Wow!

0:19.0

14,8773. Wow! 14,873.

0:22.6

Wow.

0:23.6

And I think by next month we could hit 15,000, couldn't we?

0:27.6

Most definitely.

0:28.6

I would bloody hope so.

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