Ramya Nagesh

I used to wake up near the front door with the keys in my hand.

So clearly I was trying to escape or something in my sleep.

But for over 20 years now, I've had an interest in the relationship between sleepwalking and committing crimes.

People can do quite a lot of actions whilst they're asleep.

It's not just kind of mindlessly walking around.

They can go up and down stairs.

They can drive cars and open doors and things like that.

Oh, gosh.

I heard of a case where a man would, every night, he was sleeping on the ground floor, their bedroom was on the ground floor.

He would lift his wife up and...

put her outside.

So he would open the window, lift his wife up, and put her outside in the grass, and she'd wake up in the grass, sort of covered in dew or whatever.

And her reaction was simply to put a mattress out there.

So that's quite strange.

Sleepwalking is something that's been known of for centuries.

I mean, anyone who's studied Macbeth in school knows that Macbeth's wife sleptwalked, having been involved in the murder in that play, and was said to kind of wash her hands out of guilt.

Quote, her eyes are open, but their sense is shut.

People sort of had this idea that if you were sleepwalking, you were maybe acting out your dreams.

He heard a crashing sound and realized someone from the apartment had thrown something through a pane of glass above him.

They hadn't opened the window, they'd thrown something through that glass.