{"id":201,"date":"2003-11-23T15:43:07","date_gmt":"2003-11-23T20:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2003\/11\/sleep_weirdness\/"},"modified":"2003-11-23T15:43:07","modified_gmt":"2003-11-23T20:43:07","slug":"sleep_weirdness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2003\/11\/sleep_weirdness\/","title":{"rendered":"Sleep Weirdness"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recently, CNN’s “ Anderson Cooper 360\ufffd<\/a>” had a segment on bizarre sleep behavior which some of you may have seen. Here’s more<\/a> of the same from a WJLA report (via Wrong Side of Happiness<\/a>):<\/p>\n

FRANTIC, UNCONTROLLED EATING IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT, WHILE YOUR STILL SLEEPING.
\nIT’S CALLED SLEEP EATING …
\nSusan Smith: “Then I’d get up and see all the food in the kitchen that was gone. You know that I’d eaten.”
\nIT’S A BIZARRE SLEEP DISORDER THAT BOTH SUSAN SMITH AND NANCY JORDAN HAVE SUFFERED WITH FOR DECADES.
\nNancy Jordan: “This is chicken breast. I had them whole, frozen.”
\nMILLIONS OF AMERICANS SLEEP EAT. A PERSON CAN HAVE SEVERAL EPISODES IN ONE NIGHT AND NOT REMEMBER A THING.
\nSusan: “Ice cream, bread cake … you know you don’t get up and eat apples.”
\nDOCTORS SAY “SLEEP EATING” USUALLY AFFECTS WOMEN AND IT USUALLY DEVELOPS IN THEIR TEENS. AND SOME PEOPLE DON’T JUST EAT FOOD – BUT WILL ACTUALLY EAT THINGS LIKE CIGARETTES OR PRESCRIPTION DRUGS.
\n. . .
\nLea Montgomery, nurse: “I’m not talking about making a plate, sitting at a table, having a nice meal in your sleep. I’m talking about frenzied, chaotic, disorganized and primitive eating.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We tend to view such phenomena through the lens of our own experience. For me this behavior is difficult to imagine. I’m told that when I was a young kid I got up during my sleep a few times and wandered around the house. But that was many years ago, and it’s a far cry from eating frozen food and cigarettes.
\nThe human brain can do some funny things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Recently, CNN’s “ Anderson Cooper 360\ufffd” had a segment on bizarre sleep behavior which some of you may have seen. Here’s more of the same from a WJLA report (via Wrong Side of Happiness): FRANTIC, UNCONTROLLED EATING IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT, WHILE YOUR STILL SLEEPING. IT’S CALLED SLEEP EATING … Susan Smith: “Then […]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-201","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}