10 Craziest Things People Have Ever Done In Their Sleep

So you snore like a buzzsaw, do you? Amateur.

Steven Senne/AP/Press Association ImagesSteven Senne/AP/Press Association ImagesSix to twelve hours a night, depending on who you are and what you do. That€™s between a quarter and half of your entire life spent asleep. But how are you spending your downtime? What do you do when you€™re asleep? It€™s a subject that€™s been investigated for around a century now, and sleep disorders €“ insomnia, sleepwalking, narcolepsy, night terrors, etc €“ have been a feature of that study for nearly as long. But when the pioneering researcher into the subject is a man named Doctor Dement (we are not making this up), how much can we truly know for certain? For most of us, our dreams are the weirdest things that happen to us in the night (last night there was one where we were chased by a giant dancing buffalo called Chevy Chase who wanted us to join his church). This article is dedicated to a countdown of our favourite stories that prove exceptions to that rule €“ the ten oddest, most peculiar and downright crazy things that people have done while asleep. Sweet dreams€
 
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