Why should you never wake up a person who's sleep-walking?

Question

Why should you never wake up a person who's sleep-walking?

Answer 1

DONT WAKE THEM!!! it;s awful. i once woke up my friends because she was scaring me, and they spaz out. like,i guess they freak out cuz they dont know where they are and all

Answer 2

That is an old wives's tale/

Answer 3

Because it's hard to?

Answer 4

Cuz u prob wont know their sleep-walking. My dad did it once & awhile at night. Even when im a awake i woudnt b able to tell. It took my family like 9 years to find out in the morning he didnt rmbr he got up and watched TV and Drank and **** hahaha

Answer 5

The old belief was that if you woke someone who was sleepwalking it would startle them so much they could die. Not true, but it will probably leave them very disoriented. It's best to lead them back towards bed.

If you're interested in sleep a great book to pick up is Sleep Demons: An Insomniac's Memoir by Bill Hayes.

Answer 6

Man,

My mom who's from Vietnam told me this too..

she said how the "legend" goes that if a sleep-walker walks up the roof and you wake them up to save them, they will completely spaz and most likely fall off. But then if you don't do anything, they won't fall and eventually go back..weird...never seen that, but sometimes I would sleep on my bed and then it'd be so hot I'd walk downstairs and sleep on the sofa, then wake up thinking how in the world I got there..it's pretty scary...|: