Question

Chester's roommate, josh, fell asleep about 25 minutes ago. now, chester needs to awaken him so that they can get to a party on time. josh is sleeptalking about his girlfriend's cat. when chester begins laughing, josh wakes up. he was in what stage of sleep?

Answer 1

Before Josh was woken up by Chester's laughter, he was in the third stage of sleep. Stage 3 is deep sleep, and during this stage, a person may experience sleeptalking, sleepwalking, bedwetting, nightmares, etc. The term we use for these behaviors is parasomnias and usually happen between NON-REM and REM sleep.