iD magazine

Do sleepwalke­rs feel pain?

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According to a recent study, sleepwalke­rs don’t usually experience pain in their sleep and may not wake up even if they get injured. A study of 100 sleepwalke­rs with an average age of 30 showed that they were highly sensitive to pain when they were awake: They were 10 times more likely to suffer from migraines and were almost four times more likely to have headaches in general. But most reported feeling no pain during a sleepwalki­ng injury. Though half of them had suffered an injury while sleepwalki­ng, only 10 of them were awakened by the pain. The others had reported feeling pain later on in the night or the following morning.

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