Things Your Body Does While Sleeping (4 of 5)

We Could Sleepwalk

Sleepwalking is mid-sleep activities that entail behaviours, emotions, perceptions or dreams that occur during transitions of sleep stages. Sleepwalking is mostly harmless of course, but there have been some instances where people have hurt themselves doing this.

Or Sleep Talk

As the name suggests, some people talk during their sleep. This can range from a wide variety of things. Some of it can be mumbling but some people can be shouting or making long and inarticulate speeches too. These talks can occur at various points during the sleeping process.

Sexual Arousal

Men call it morning wood, but ladies can experience this in their own way. Why this is the case is because we all experience sexual stimulus while sleeping. While we are sleeping, our brain is still active during our sleep.

And since our brain needs oxygen, our blood flow is also going to increase. This in turn leads to the swelling of genitalia.

We Make Big Decisions

Studies show that while we are sleeping, our brain is processing information and making decisions while we are sleeping. This makes sense when you consider the fact our brain is making connections and discoveries while we’re sleeping.

Passes Gas

There’s a lot of things our bodies do while we sleep as you can tell, but one of the grosser things is that our sphincter muscles loosen a little. This is enough for gasses in our intestines to slip out.

The good news is that our sense of smell drops while sleeping so if we fart, no one is going to smell it.