Sleepwalkers: Secrets Of The Night (Psychology Documentary) | Real Stories

[Music] we all need a good night's sleep in fact most of us spend an astonishing 20 years of our lives tucked up in bed but what some people do and they no longer awake it's quite extraordinary Olivia laughs you can hear a talking as if she's with another child in the room which could be quite scary I really want this extreme sleep disorders and strange nocturnal activities it could be a living nightmare it's bizarre it's not something that you wake up and go I'm so proud of myself you know I ate a complete meal while I was sleeping imagine if your partner is diagnosed with a sleep disorder called sexsomnia when you got something literally I mean almost grabbing your skin to pull your clothing off you know it's not the same person just gonna try and understand who this person inside of me is comes on tonight and what have you possess a unique gift that only emerges when you're dead to the world this man claims he can draw in his sleep in this film we enter the strange world of four people who's nighttime rituals are mysterious and often disturbing for people who are desperate to understand what happens to them when the bedroom light is switched off [Music] one in ten people will sleepwalk at some time in their lives it's called parasomnia it can happen to anyone but usually begins in childhood Olivia White is nine years old she lives in Hampshire and she's been sleepwalking most nights since she was three she jump up in bed and start acting out strange episodes said like thrashing her arms around and that was quite distressing we would have to put pillows down the side of her bed when she was little I hope as a parent that she's able to cope with it as she gets older the day loopy doesn't care shirring around she'll play it's like there's nothing wrong but come bedtime the mood changes and as you put Olivia to bed it's just that dread you know what's in store for us for the evening that's not nice [Music] don't think curry lives in Canada incredibly she eats 150 meals a year she doesn't even remember because she consumes them when she's fast asleep I'll heat up leftovers a lot of peanut butter snacks puddings there have been times where I've made full spaghetti dinners I've grilled cheese I know I've grilled cheese before heating up things in the microwave that's probably more common I think as I've gotten older I don't know if it was having kids you're more aware of the safety aspects of things but I don't tend to heat things up or make full meals as much as I did when I was younger I sleep on that side so my guess would be that normally I would get up from here walk over [Music] walk over here if I would have come in come into the fridge or you know into the cupboard in some way and prepared the food usually honestly not cooking it it tends to be a grab thing eating it and then heading back to the bedroom and I mean the times when I am eating it in bed I literally am just sitting like this eating it and then all kind of sort of come aware put it down on the floor and head back to bed Sam plays late-night feasts are peculiar but the activities of some parasail necks like Tim are more disturbing Tim has been diagnosed with sexsomnia in his case it means he tries to have sex when he's fast asleep with his wife Amanda I mean he'll be falling at your clothing and whether you're wearing clothing or not including your under clothing he's still trying to basically have intercourse with you and clothed or not and the pulling and the grabbing I mean normally he's a in all respects is a very gentle person but when you got somebody literally I mean almost grabbing your skin to pull your clothing off you know it's not the same person I mean we've been together for 13 years married for going on four and all of long I knew there was a problem but now as we've gotten become more aware of it it's gotten so bad over the last two two-and-a-half years he says when he goes to bed he repeats in the back of his mind leave her alone what's your loss though as you go to sleep really my last thought I said I hope I keep my hands to myself and then then I hope I wake up in the morning and like she always explained that I'm a good boy where it's it's like I said it they should I shouldn't have to go to sleep thinking that but it's just it's the way it is and when you don't realize that you're doing it you're waiting more up with a more of a question mark so am I getting a proper sleep no because I'm more worried about what's gonna happen in bed what's going to happen to her and then what am I gonna deal with in the morning or if she actually gonna get out of it I'm gonna see you on the couch even extreme conditions like sexsomnia have been recognized by sleep experts but this man may be unique his name is Lee hadwin and he believes he's been drawing in his sleep for twenty years if this is true then his curious nighttime talent will be a medical first I started sleepwalking at the age of four four or five and then later on started walk wandering around the house a lot more from the around about seven or eight and then at the age of fifteen sixteen my parents caught me drawing under the stairs that was some English scribbles and it's progressed from there I still do actually scribble but yeah it's become more intricate over the years from the moment I start I've got no recollection of getting out of bed what I've done it's only the next day if if I've done it it's like any of these drawings I've got no recollection of doing them I don't they don't even feel like part of me so can it really be possible that Lee had win' creates these works of art in his sleep can such bizarre sleep behavior be explained to find out we decided to investigate exactly what Lee and no other sleep walkers really get up to in the dead of night extreme sleep walkers often get up an hour after they go to bed most the children who grow out of it but some adults never do our for sleep walkers have never seen what they do at night so we decided to gather our own evidence Lee will have a camera in his flat to filming maybe drawers in his sleep it'll be good now with the camera set up here and in the room because you'll get a good shot so such board the camera in Tim and Amanda's home will record Tim's behavior in the bedroom and he's a bit apprehensive about the idea it's timorous feel like someone's watching you feel like you're being spied on but that's okay that's a for a good thing because it's something that I'm doing that I don't know that I'm doing if they're able to capture or see something that I'm doing then they could say hey I know why you're doing this we're gonna see from the cameras from the cameras probably a lot of sleep eating a lot of walking and hoping that it'll show up on the cameras [Laughter] [Music] this will sit on the forehead here you have one here one electrode here and the other one behind the behind the ear here connected to the side marker the lis hadwin our experiment goes one step further doctors have never encountered a claim of sleep drawing before so every night these brainwaves will also be monitored to try and prove he's actually asleep when he draws there is already some apparent evidence on tape it's one of the few brief moments Lee has ever been caught and created mood at night the video was shot by Lee's partner Clint [Music] play [Music] so this is the one that I'd taped in February which I absolutely love tell me about February how that happens I was in a deep sleep and I didn't even realize the light was on and I noticed Lee was drawing away as he does so I thought it's a good opportunity to get it on video because I've never done that before what makes you think he's actually asleep well I know he is cuz I mean I lived with him for nearly nine years and he's definitely asleep does he respond to you he denied no have you tried to talk to him yes well he doesn't register that I'm there Clint has his own theory on what's happening it's like he's in this deep psychosis when he's when he's drawing sleep drawing is virtually unheard of but scientists are still discovering different types of nocturnal disorders just five years ago experts at the universities of Toronto and Ottawa identified a new behavior called sexsomnia which may now affect over a hundred thousand couples in Britain the condition could be triggered by stress or anxiety and sufferers there may even be a genetical however like other sleepwalkers sexsomnia acts have no control over what they're doing they are driven by basic instincts for 33 year old Tim it's this primal instinct that turns him into someone different at night diagnosed with sexsomnia a few months ago he tries to have sex with his wife Amanda while he's fast asleep it went okay the worst he did was had his hand on my leg then I guess he kind of he didn't sleep well cuz he's always conscious of how I'm doing so he ultimately rolled over and I didn't you know tell him off this to me but he just just has his hands on my leg and he was kind of moving his hands and I thought okay but he moved over so he pretty much behaved himself last night I'm relieved when he does behave himself because I get a full night's sleep and then I'm not cranky in the morning because if I'm cranky he's all upset because he doesn't like he knows he bothers me when he's doing this kind of thing so he doesn't like it Tim and Amanda have been married for four years and every morning he wakes up one the ring was a good boy I asked myself and everything rest of my body was to myself as well which was you know as as for myself I'm still trying to understand what's going on and seeing what's going on because my wife can only tell me where myself when I wake up there's no memory there's no thought of other than I'd be waking up to the alarm going off and so my regular duties that go tim is clearly relieved when the night passes without incident sexsomnia acts are often burdened with a sense of shame xanthi - struggles with her feelings of guilt and worries about disturbing her husband Jeremy in the night I hate it when I take it back to the bedroom that's that's bad I don't like that and that's actually the worst feeling because then you feel guilty because then I'm thinking I'm going to wake him up and he's going to be he's gonna know that I'm doing it I mean obviously he already knows but it's sort of one of those things I'll be caught doing it I'll try and hide them I'll be honest I'll wake up and if I see them first I'll try and rush them back to the kitchen because it is an embarrassing thing to do I mean it's not it's not something that you wake up and go I'm so proud of myself you know I ate a complete meal while I was sleeping you know it is a little bit of an embarrassing activity it's a loss of control so yeah when she's awake Xanthi does her best to stick to a healthy diet but when she's asleep anything goes she gets up in middle 90 has no idea what she's been eating so who knows what it's doing to her body really good you know aside from you know weight control things like that you know health aspects are pretty important within two days of the cameras going in zante was caught red-handed some dieting experts believe that in sleep eating the body may be rebelling and instinctively searching for the high-calorie foods forbidden during the day I know I've been doing it since I was probably about 11 I think it started more heavily into my teen years when I entered you know 13 14 that kind of thing and it's just been going really ever since then I was used to being told well obviously you're not eating right obviously your diet is lacking something you know so then you would try and compensate you would try and do things like if I eat more fruits and vegetables then I should be okay if I get more exercise then I should be okay but it never actually worked and then people would say you're not eating enough so you would try and fill up really really as much as you can before bed thinking if I'm stuffed as I could possibly be then there's no reason for me to be getting up well then it backfires because you still get up but your stuff so you're eating even more food you know so it's it's a vicious cycle then you wake up in the morning you feel ill because you've eaten this huge amount before bed and then an amount while you're sleeping and then you're waking up so it's sort of a nasty cycle [Music] as Olivia white grows up her mom is even more determined to break her sleepwalking habit I don't I don't I cut on my teddy and close my eyes then I distract there seems to be no end in sight for Olivia's mum and it's affecting the whole family she's nine years old now Olivia and I don't think there's been one night where I haven't worried about what her problems are so nine years of no sleep and nine years of worry really takes its toll on the family what's your concern for the future well that she's getting older and she becomes a teenager once sleepover with their friends she's not embarrassed to take that step away from us to be able to sleep away from home when she gets older and has relationships to be able to to be open and honest about her sleep most parasomnia acts would give anything to sleep normally but Lee hadlen isn't like other sleepwalkers he's proud to call himself a sleep artist and his creative output by night has created quite a stir he hopes it might lead to bigger things so he can give up his office job Lee's adamant he is asleep when he draws but sleepwalking usually only involves simple automatic behavior things were used to doing in the day but in Lee's case he says his talent only emerges magically at night and that he can't draw by day at all [Music] [Applause] [Music] Lee has never been to our college or studied our history in fact he wouldn't know his Titian from his turner and yet by night in the last 20 years he claims to have drawn more than 40 pieces of art I'm not into a but people that I've seen the works have said to me they're all in different styles I mean when it comes to style with I don't I don't know what the difference is but what what I do know is just an intricate detail with with different pictures so we wondered whether an expert could shed some light on Lee hadrons unusual creative talent this is the art critic David Lee we didn't tell him these drawings were done by someone who says he was asleep at the time there were only different mediums used in different ways or appear to be pencil quite sharp pencil blunt pencil scribbling accuracy not bad I don't know there's something to encourage I'll see it lots of lots and lots of different things but they all strangely look as though they've got some kind of purpose because a great deal of effort has gone into I mean some of them are completely effortless but a lot of effort has gone into this and the person who did this as well as the person who did the graffiti has taken a great deal of trouble not to confuse it you know it's not a mess so they brought conscious efforts to look to the work it looks to me as though I have you know there's a great deal of concentration is something like that if it's if it's if it's a doodle there's a great deal of concentration I'd have said Oh something like that I mean there has to be in order to keep it controlled these arts or the paintings people can do in their sleep mother or are they good god no I mean I can't do anything you're mostly except it's normal maybe no I you can't do it in your sleep I mean that's out of the question to cross your counter I mean that's rather rather precise that's that's getting better that's somebody I mean there's no hesitation about the experts are baffled by Lee but he's determined to prove himself so will he manage to draw on camera and convince the critics and in Canada will tame an Amanda have another peaceful night a will the cameras catch the episode of sexsomnia that they both dread [Music] it's 7:00 a.m. and we've been called to teman Amanda's home something's happened in the middle of the night he annoyed me what did he do he's just started like if he's sleeping facing me and he put his arm around my stomach and I thought that's okay and then one hand was going quite low and in doing things he shouldn't be doing so he when he when he starts like that he he hurts you and then he was actually trying to shall we say have sex with me from behind and we're both fully clothed he's trying to move at least my nightgown anyways so I grabbed his hand and I kind of moved his hand away like unto his side at that point and you know I thought he'd go back to sleep and he came back and was doing it again and then when his hands were roaming down below and you know applying quite a little bit of pressure where you know I felt uncomfortable and that's what I look up to not comfortable not nice but it's not Tim either Tim like other sexsomnia acts has no memory of what happened last night and it seems completely out of character it happens I have no idea what goes on it's hard for for us [Music] by day amanda says tim is gentle and sensitive towards her he holds down a good job as a builder and is a devoted dad to their daughter Carly by night his behavior can be aggressive and predatory Tim's doctor one of Canada's leading sleep experts has asked to see our video footage he's never seen a case of sexsomnia unfolding on screen before ok so she moved first and then that wakes in her leg moves as well so she is scratching herself now she is by definition she's actually awake but she's you know between that transition between sleep and wake she moves again and then he starts rubbing her that's rubbing her thigh and she's trying to push him away now she's pushing him away you see what we actually seeing here is that she moves which then prompts him to move so it's almost every time it's initiated by some movement that she makes it causes him to rouse from sleep and then he defaults to that thing now he's going up to try and hold onto her breast she pushes his hand down and this is a very elegant example of what is probably happening every night and I think this is clearly quite disturbing certainly for her not only is it sleep disruptive but it's also annoying to her and and she's gone she's left the bedroom I mean that clearly shows how something that appears as innocuous is just hugging and holding and being affectionate and extends into becoming something that is office predatory for her she finds it extremely difficult seven years ago Amanda suffered postnatal depression it affected her sex life with Tim even though his sexsomnia had emerged years before we don't have a lot of things done because of it because of the problem me knowing that how frustrated she is with it you know whether I want it or not it's you know Amanda knows that I'm a very true person where I'm not out I won't go to somebody else for it I'm just I'm with a man oh that's one with that's way it is for Amanda I see the frustration so they could set it as a oh you want to say it as a kind partner I I know that this problem and I'll let her to come to me over time so then it's then maybe like say I may have a good week where nothing happens so she may be feeling a little frisky so it's you know then I let it happen but if not I'm no I'm not about to force her because I know it's hard for her to deal with as well even our wedding night we we we came to the bedroom and I was to consummate the marriage but he went out to the couch because I mean enough is enough so I still married him even though he was had this problem but I know it's not his fault and it's it's not him cuz I wouldn't have married the person he is when he's sleeping mm-hmm it's taking a toll on a relationship we're becoming more argumentative so the herd that's what this is when you don't realize that you have a problem brings out the sad person inside me because inside me there is a person sometimes it feels like he's by himself it's you you've got the problem you're a weirdo you're freak it's like Jekyll Hyde [Music] the battle between night and day for Xanthi is also about staying in control at night she wills herself not to eat in her sleep most nights I try and think you know I'm not going to do this again this is going to be you know a night where I'm sleeping through and some nights it is you know some nights I'm I'm fine and I sleep all the way through other nights I get up and I eat it can get pretty bad there was a time back in the fall actually where I think I was doing it probably every day for almost a month that that started getting a little a little difficult that was difficult to deal with because I thought you know my god this is never gonna stop I worry that the kids will do it as well and that it's um something that's basically just going to continue forever that's not gonna stop watching the footage from our cameras zanthia is about to come face to face with her sleeping self for the first time it's bizarre it's very bizarre I'm not even sure what to think actually that looks like poltergeist now you're having some milk that's why I couldn't have cereal this morning straight for the cookies I'm just I'm neat about it it just doesn't make sense to me it is a bit odd that you're just standing there yeah unfortunately I don't think it is odd not for me at least I've never seen it before like I've seen it in terms of feeling like I was watching myself do it but I've never physically seen it before shanthi and her husband Jeremy may be shocked but Xanthia is also relieved I'm not crazy it is actually happening because for a long time I actually thought you know it's not actually happening these are yeah these are just horrible dreams but now it's proof it's I know it's not but now it's almost physical proof that it's not just a horrible dream that I've been having [Music] back in the UK Lee had win' has been filmed by our cameras every night so far he hasn't drawn anything in his sleep but now he's going to put himself under further scrutiny of one of Britain's leading sleep clinics this is dr. Chris it Sikorsky he's fascinated by Lee's case and he's examining the video footage shot by Lee's partner it's a piece of evidence showing Lee drawing when he says he's asleep but on its own it's inconclusive if I think about people who eat when they're in a sleepwalking state they tend to be quite messy in terms of how they eat and they they may be able to use knives and forks but equally they're likely to chop at their fingers as well so one doesn't expect finely tuned coordinated behavior and that's where he becomes interesting so as he watches Lee the doctor is looking for clues well really when I achieve into the sleep clinic basically just to try and get hopefully if they've got an understanding of exactly what is happening most honestly I mean what I want to get from this and the reason why I've done this is basically just a get in the Sun and hopefully try and capture something on film for everyone to see and hopefully I'm praying for the next couple of days all about the sleep clinic that sort of thing will happen when he was looking at the the drawing there he's sort of looking as if he's appreciating what the drawing is about and there's some facial gestures in there which it's not the usual blank emotionless fix there that one gets from a sleepwalker then on the other hand loose and what drawing either Lee is about to undergo a night of rigorous testing will science be able to provide the proof that he is actually asleep while he's drawing [Music] company bad you [Music] across the Atlantic Amanda now has the proof she needs to show Tim for the first time how he behaves towards her in his sleep it blows my mind it's extreme very extreme Tim is shocked by what he sees but unfortunately for Amanda it's an experience she's lived through many times over the years it's embarrassing give me eight sometimes it's a crime every night and it's a nervous laugh but I can fully understand but if this is being a mild I don't know it's painful because I see the extreme of what happened there to me that's extreme but if it's worse than that I'm stopping you basically this sir is just a monster I'm taking him that's what it is tonight at the Edinburgh sleep clinic the stakes are high for leha doin he hopes he'll be one stage nearer to securing the proof he needs for doctor Chris head zukovsky Lee is a unique patient I'm not aware of anybody actually doing is I'm not quite sure what what he's doing whether he's actually replaying something from his mind or actually being creative at the time so it could be images that he's picked up that he's now reproducing so entirely the obvious extreme case is post-traumatic stress disorder where people have recurrent dreams about a particular event they're they replay those dreams the whole time so if we talk about him replaying snapshots of something and concentrating on those to some extent I think we have to we have to think in those terms because he's not actively trying to paint something that he can see in real life or from photos it has to be something represented in his mind and his in his memory as night falls is a new medical sleep condition about to be uncovered could medicine also provides some desperately needed answers or even cures for the other sleep walkers we followed Lee had win has been fast asleep for eight hours after drawings at home failed to appear and then not convincing the art critic or performing under clinical supervision this is a turning point for Lee is he about to wake up and find that he is finally drawn on camera sleep unfortunately for Lee there's still no evidence whatsoever of his creative talent emerging in the night so anything the doctor has also analyzed Lee's test results and found they are perfectly normal then did a fairly normal looking sleeping eg awake for a bit when everyone 15 20 25 minutes so that took a while but then quite quickly into light sleep bounce back into wakefulness bit of light sleep so the doctor pursues another more personal line of enquiry have you been involved in a traumatic events relatively happy Lee reveals that at school a number of childhood friends died at a young age it prompts the doctor to begin to explore more serious possibilities such as split personality disorder you don't get any disconnections with reality the line is a multiple personality disorders were people split into other personalities and jumped back into that role and retain memories associated with that role here almost doing that kind of thing all right but everything's benign as far as I'm concerned as long as you're safe when you're when you're joining then carry on drawing I hope he's investigated more because he's looking in a more interesting case I originally sought funding but I've switched from being totally cynical to regarding it as more plausible because having talked to him there are various elements in what he said that seemed to me that although he could be limiting the whole thing he'd have to be really aware of everything that's going on to get it right so and now in the mode of just wondering what is going on I mean one's got three possibilities but one is that it is a sleep related activity another is that he slips into a different mode of wakefulness and an operating and wakefulness which would be interesting in its own right if he doesn't actually recall it in the third he's making up the whole thing the surge is the least interesting the first two are definitely interesting [Music] in Canada Tim is also getting expert help three sexsomnia he still shocked by the footage and worried for a manner and hopes the doctor can provide some insight she says that like I said it happens least once a week so at least once a week my body or whatever is going and doing whatever it wants and with me not having any control I'd say I yeah I don't know you you basically you you're unconscious to what's happening you don't have consciousness for what is happening with regards to activities that happen such as caressing holding you know some sexual advances you know whether there be some sexual movements etc these things happen during sleep they happen when people have no consciousness of it so for you to understand why you do this it's just it's a fairly basic mechanism it's nothing there's nothing intrinsically evil in you you're not possessed by some you know some horrible force that is forcing you to do this very often it is just a default position really I don't want you feeling guilty about your behaviors or actions because all you do is reinforce some negative concept in your own mind you don't want to feel that in some way you are meshing her with some type of behavior that that you're doing with it with any consciousness because it's not coming from any conscious level it's not only men that do this I have women patients who are quite you know they'll become very sexually aggressive during sleep and if the partner touches them they wake up and absolutely snarl at them and you know it's quite the world ring for the man you know he gets someone sort of fondling him and doing things like that and next thing you know he gets interested and it's a slap to get the hell off me a lot of people they don't believe that this can happen and it clearly does happen it happens much more frequently than we recognize it happens under circumstances that are not always easily explicable back in Hampshire Olivia is still sleepwalking sometimes talking to imaginary friends she's coming to see the specialist at Southampton General Hospital because her parents are determined to break the cycle of her sleepwalking once and for all the doctors are going to try a more radical treatment I don't want people really depressed about my seat Hey but I just need that I'm 7-piece Pete I really want them to stop no she's still having episodes obviously and it looks from this as though it's about four nights out of seven is that fairly representative do you think I'm still the same yet because what we talked about as a first line to try and make this better was the scheduled awakening idea which is a really funny topsy-turvy thing to do in live here isn't it here we are trying to make your sleep better and what are we going to ask mum to do cutaway cued up go into Olivia's room I would say an hour after she's gone to sleep and ideally you want to couch before she has her first episode she needs to be awake enough to acknowledge you and sort of say hi and you know and then she'd go straight back to sleep see I'm gonna have her awake for very long just long enough for her brain to come out of sleep come up into the waking State the doctors think they can interrupt her normal sleep patterns the plan is to trying to almost reteach the brain not to get stuck in that sort of short circuit I want to write me up when I'm disciplined or whether my sleeping you can blame it all on the funny doctors telling you to do strange things can't be lee hadron has had cameras in his bedroom for six weeks that has been wearing electrodes to monitor his brain patterns but he's drawn nothing the only clue to his behavior so far is the theory of split personality relating to his childhood trauma so now Lee's allowing his drawings to be seen by Remy Apple Wu a top psychotherapist and trauma expert Remy a cuarón identifies signs of conflict and struggling least self-portraits which are only half drawn he has a theory could the two faces represent two parts of Li add a timely and are quite different nighttime Li the consultation with Remy a Quran takes nearly two hours the psychotherapist mainly focuses on the death and funeral of a close friend when Lee was just 13 did you go to his funeral yeah okay what was that like quite horrific really remember how you felt that remembers sobbing and sobbing you were sobbing in sabah here is it similar to how you described watching yourself sobbing oh when you were having a nightmare and and part of it would have been it was about I just always remember looking at my jacket and just wanting that stays in my mind is my tear drops on my jacket right just yeah looking looking at that at the side of me as well would that be from the side of you from the side from now on the side of a massage yeah yeah that's a dissociative mechanism that's you dissociating wrong though and looking at yourself right as much as the one when you talk about much earlier I'm doing that so those are ways of dealing the situation by watching it and being slightly detached that would go on dissociative definition the therapist thinks that at times of trauma Lee manages to cut himself off from his emotions in a kind of out-of-body experience there's no doubt in my mind that the system you are using - emotionally deal with things that for a child most children will be impossible to deal with is by separating them out okay it's a survival mechanism it means that you could be there watching that other side of you or sides of you we're dealing and carrying the emotional effect of it and so the senses of that that you're not asleep that this is a dissociative phenomenon going on from what I am picking up from you okay and that that part of you has all parts of you have been free to express themselves when you're asleep it's the expert view the LEAs nighttime drawing may be a way of escaping from reality a process first stimulated by his own traumatic experiences I think he's me is like in the hypnotic gaze and that's a dissociative state he's someone who draws in an altered state of consciousness I'm glad that I've come here today because it shed some light on the fact that I may according to him if I'm not asleep then obviously I'm on a so-called different plane so to speak which to me makes it even more interesting the sleepwalking our sister now a lot of the other stops to find out what the name was this altered state of mind is then so you know bit more therapies needed [Music] a few months on Xanthi is still searching for clues to her sleep eating and is having more tests but the radical treatment to change Olivia's sleep patterns hasn't worked so doctors are considering drug treatment tim has been prescribed drugs to keep him in a deeper sleep and there have been fewer nighttime incidents amanda says she will also go to counseling with him Lee has been told he appears to have no conscious awareness when he draws in the night but it remains a mystery how even in a hypnotic state he can draw such complex pictures but he's been warned analyzing his own behavior with more therapy might mean he may never draw again [Music] [Music]

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Length: 46min 20sec (2780 seconds)

Published: Sat Aug 05 2017

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TIL I suffer from sexsomnia... I didn't know it was a thing and always beat myself over being an absolute moron/barbarian when sharing a bed with my SO... Thanks for sharing OP.