Thursday, June 28, 2007

Sex in your sleep?

Has anyone experienced waking up to having sex? Last night we had another great session and then fell asleep exhausted. Just worn out... Anyhow sometime early this morning we both wake up to sex. I am not sure who is to THANK, but I have heard of a small percentage of the population that can have sex in their sleep. Kind of like sleep walking but it's sleep fucking.

Wikipedia has to say the following:

Sleep sex or sexsomnia is a form of non-rapid eye movement (NREM) parasomnia (similar to sleepwalking) that causes people to commit sexual acts while they are asleep. The first doctor to coin the term "Sleep sex" is Dr. David Saul Rosenfeld, a neurologist and sleep doctor from Los Angeles, California. The proposed medical diagnosis is NREM Arousal Parasomnia - Sexual Behaviour in Sleep, and is considered to be a distinct variant of sleepwalking/confusional arousals (ICSD 2). The condition was defined by three researchers from the University of Toronto and the University of Ottawa in a paper called "Sexsomnia — A New Parasomnia?" published in the Canadian Journal of Psychiatry in June 2003.

Sufferers are often aware of their behavior for a long time before they seek help, often because they are not aware that it is a medical disorder or for fear that others will judge it as willful behavior rather than a medical disorder. However, the reality of the condition has been confirmed by sleep disorder researchers who have made sound and video recordings of patients with the condition and observed unusual brain wave activity during the episodes similar to that experienced by other parasomniacs. It is a mind/body disconnect that occurs during sleep. In many cases it is a pre-cursor to neuromuscular disease and is treated with muscle relaxants and other medications.

The first research paper that suggested that sexual behavior during sleep may be a new type of parasomnia was published in 1996. Later, several papers were published describing the problem and suggested that problematic forms of sleep sex are medically treatable "conditions" (see external links).

Sexsomnia is not always problematic or extreme for those who experience it or for their partners. There is a great variety in both the frequency and levels to which people are affected by this disorder.

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So WHAT exactly does this mean? I guess it's not a problem until one of us starts getting turned down in their sleep for sex... Perhaps we just need to get to bed earlier. What time do the good people of TMI and BLOGGER go to sleep?

Good night sleep tight but not too tight!

Ms. Nice...

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

It is nice to know that someone other than us gets to experience this pleasure.
On several early mornings we have woken up to as we call it "spirit fucking" or having sex in your sleep.
Currently we have no complaints and love a new way to start off our day.