But waking a sleepwalker from their dream will leave them momentarily disoriented or confused, that's all. There is no real danger in waking them up.
Indigo sky swept clear of fleecy clouds, gaunt trees infinitely extended, their black boughs gesticulating like a sleepwalker.
WHEN the TWINS left Scarlett standing on the porch of Tara and the last sound of flying hooves had died away, she went back to her chair like a sleepwalker.
If you're a sleepwalker, dreaming of jumping off something can be very dangerous as you may be doing it in reality.
In her own records of case histories, there is not one sleepwalker who ever got beyond his own front door.
When he's off stage he's a fireball; when he gets on stage he's more like a sleepwalker, saying all his lines in the monotone.
But waking a sleepwalker from their dream will leave them momentarily disoriented or confused, that's all.
I'm somebody who was a champion sleepwalker as a kid.