Secrets of the Sleep Walkers ; They Smash Up Their Rooms. They Attack Their Partners. Some Have Sex or Find Themselves in Even More Embarrassing Situations. And yet All the Time They Are Fast Asleep... Good Health

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SLEEPWALKING is often discounted as a minor inconvenience, but two recent cases highlighted more serious implications. Promising musician Chris Sheldrick, 23, punched a window while asleep, severing tendons and hampering his career. Meanwhile, in Australia, a married woman left her house and had sex with strangers while sleepwalking. Here, LUCY ELKINS talks to three sufferers.

They smash up their rooms. They attack their partners. Some have sex or find themselves in even more embarrassing situations. And yet all the time they are fast asleep...

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Secrets of the Sleep Walkers ; They Smash Up Their Rooms. They Attack Their Partners. Some Have Sex or Find Themselves in Even More Embarrassing Situations. And yet All the Time They Are Fast Asleep... Good Health

RICHARD DREWRY, 28, a GP from Tooting, South London, didn't start sleepwalking until he was 20 and since then has even walked about naked while deeply asleep. On occasion he has had to rely on his girlfriend Emily Lumbers, 26, a nurse, to rescue him.

He says:

WHENEVER I go on holiday or stay anywhere new, I have to prepare myself for the fact that I might wander about in my sleep. It all started out of the blue when I was at university. It was my flatmate, Juliette, who told me what I had been doing and at first I didn't believe her.

She said I had walked into her room during the early hours of the morning while she was sleeping with her boyfriend. My eyes were wide open but I loo...

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