6. Sleepwalking/ Hallucinations

Today's assignment is to do a little research into topics associated with "Macbeth". Your paragraph must have a clear and engaging introduction, followed by 7-10 facts of information, and finished up with a powerful conclusion. Please remember that this paragraph must be completely in your own words.

Ms. Searcy will assign you one of the following topics:

1. The Real Macbeth
2. King James the first
3. Charles Manson and Macbeth
4. Witches and Witch Hunts
5. The Curse of Macbeth
6. Sleepwalking/hallucinations
7. The Black Death
8. War in Medieval Times

After you have finished your blog, please read 3 of your classmates blogs that have been written on different topics from your own.


Sleepwalking is a general term that ever body knows. But what most people don't know, is the activities That may occur. Many people, only suffer from minor cases of sleep walking that go from sitting up in bed, to walking into the bathroom to have a shower. But in more severe cases, People can even get into there car and start to drive, and even commit homicide. Many cases only involve repetitive patterns while immersed in complex behaviors while sleeping. The time period of people sleep walking, can last from 30 seconds, to half an hour. Sleepwalking is a disorder that can be grown out of in early childhood stages. Between 25 and 33% of sleepwalkers have nocturnal enuresis. Which is also know as "bed wetting". This is more common in children than adults. Night terrors is also a common phenomenon for all ages, but its more common in adult sleepwalkers, up too 50% more common. There is controversy between whether it is ok to wake a sleepwalker, or if you should just leave them. Some experts say you shouldn't wake them, but guide them back to there bed very gently. Others say waking a sleep walker will cause disorientation, but will not harm them.

           The definition of a hallucination is a Latin term that means "to wander mentally". They can  involve the sense of feeling, hearing, seeing, smelling and some times even tasting things that aren't actually present. The most common hallucination is just seeing and hearing imaginary objects. Hallucinations are often associated with Schizophrenia. Although hallucinations often occur to people with the bipolar disorder. Real examples of hallucinations have been posted on the Internet;" I don't see pink cartoon bunnies, but sometimes when manic or hypomanic I think I see things like motion peripherally where there is none or stuff moving in the reflections in mirrors. I think I hear my name or weird unclear snatches of noise. It makes me paranoid and then I see more stuff, but I don't actually see anything. It's more like a visual or auditory twitch."  (http://bipolar.about.com/cs/faqs/f/faq_hallucinate.htm). The term for a mild cause of a hallucination is known as a disturbance. it can occur in visual, auditory, olfactory, gustatory, tactile, proprioceptive, equilibrioceptive, nociceptive, thermoceptive and chronoceptive senses. These disturbances could be like seeing movement in your peripheral vision, or hearing faint noise or voices. other feelings could be from schizophrenia, by the feeling that some one is watching you from behind or being stared at. Olfactory is your sense of smell, gustatory is your sense of taste, tactile is your sense of feel. Equilibrioceptive is your sense of balance. Nociceotive is the senses in your brain. Thermoceptive is the sense to feel heat or any sort of tempature, and Chronoceptive is your ability to keep time, knowing how much has passed.