An hour or two after my school-age son has gone to bed, he sometimes wakes up from a nightmare, walks to my room and mumbles incoherently about what’s scaring him. But he seems off, and I can't get ...

Masked intruders broke into your house. They want to hurt you. Fast, grab something and fight back. But wait, you’re still asleep. This is just a bad dream. The reality is far worse. You’re swinging a ...

Sleepwalking is a disorder that’s easily—and often—misunderstood. When you think of sleepwalking, what comes to mind? A groggy, wandering toddler, or a movie-style sleepwalker with arms outstretched?

Sleepwalking, or somnambulism, belongs to a family of sleep disorders called parasomnias, behaviors that hover on the boundary between sleeping and waking. Most parasomnias are tied to specific points ...

Sleepwalking often happens during the first few hours after falling asleep [Photo: Shutterstock] Have you ever woken up to find food crumbs or your sheets, even though you don’t remember waking up to ...

Only five months after publication of my memoir, ''Sleepwalker: The Mysterious Makings and Recovery of a Somnambulist,'' I received a Facebook private message: Dear Ms. Frazier, I feel compelled to ...

Have you ever woken up in a strange place, with no idea how you got there? Maybe you found yourself with a half-eaten piece of bread in your hand, or the fridge door wide open in the middle of the ...