walking may not be appreciated until awakening after the fact.
There are two “specialized” fo rms of sleepwalking: sleep-related eating behavior and
sleep-related sexual behavior (sexsomn ia or sleep sex). Individuals with sleep-related eating
experience unwanted recurrent episodes of eating with varying degrees of amnesia, rang-
ing from no awareness to full awareness with out the ability to not eat. During these epi-
sodes, inappropriate foods may be ingested. In dividuals with sleep-re lated eating disorder
may find evidence of their eating only the next morning. In sexsomnia,  varying degrees of