Things That Bang

The iPod generation is all stressed out. Most will face burn outs by the time they hit their forties and even those of us still in their early thirties have started to dream about early retirement something the baby boomers dreaded in their hey days. Life was more relaxed back then but today we are the instant gratification generation and there are consequences to be faced.

People nowadays are working more, drinking more, partying more and sleeping less. Sleep deficit can cause health problems and also in some cases cause sleep walking. An article in Guardian last week talked about the frequent occurrence of sleep walking in a hotel called- Travelodge.

It was brave of Travelodge to reveal this week that in the past year more than 400 men have been found wandering naked in their sleep around its hotels, for this might very well unnerve its more sensitive customers. According to the hotel chain, the incidence of naked sleepwalking, which occurs almost exclusively among its male guests, has increased sevenfold in 12 months.

It sounds funny that there are people who walk around in their birthday suits and wind up at the lobby; something we'd think may happen in a Mr Bean episode rather than in real life. But to read sleep walking incidents have increased by seven fold within 12 months is indeed reason enough to be worried.

The author of the Guardian article also did a bit of sleeping walking once in Jamaica:

Luckily, I wasn't completely naked. I had a shirt on. But following what is now revealed to be a common pattern, I awoke at 4am in front of the hotel reception desk. The experience was odd, because I had thought I was conscious and that I had gone outside on to the balcony of my room to smoke a cigarette and admire the moon.

He may be laughing it off but it is indeed a disturbing sign. My darling hubby and my best friend tend to talk in their sleep when they've had a stressful day. Its kind of funny to hold proper sane conversation with them and tell them about it the next day but thankfully neither of them walk in their sleep.

Though sleep talking seems to be a normal phenomena suffered by both the genders it seems that sleep walking happens more amongst men than women. Could it be that their lives are more stressful or that they can't handle the stress that comes their way?