# Awakening From Sleepwalking

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awakening-from-sleepwalking/2903>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [August 30, 1999, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awakening-from-sleepwalking/2903 "1999-08-30T21:11:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![BigRoryG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f07891/32.png) [@BigRoryG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigRoryG)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 1999, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awakening-from-sleepwalking/2903/1 "1999-08-30T21:11:00Z")

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What is behind that old wives tale of never awakening someone from sleepwalking? WIll they violently attack you? Will they suffer cardiac arrest? Or will they just be really, really cranky?

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Sincerely, SDStaff hopeful