I’m wondering if the stories I’ve read about the more extreme things sleepwalkers do are true. Specifically, I’m talking about tales of sleepwalkers murdering others, mutilating themselves, and committing suicide in their sleep.
(In case you’re wondering about how you’d know in the last case, I read an anecdote once about a man who cut his throat. His last actions as he bled to death was to signal for a piece of paper and pen, with which he wrote, “I dreamt that I was killing myself. I awoke to find it true,” or something like that.
Possible? Exaggeration? How deep a sleepwalker would you need to be to completely overcome conscious morality and survival instinct? Heck, if it’s possible, I’d like to try writing a story in which a straight man has gay sex while sleepwalking!