Sleep Disorder Can Cause Bizarre, Terrifying Behavior In Patients

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PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — David Morehead would kick in his sleep while he was dreaming.
“Both legs, both feet, as hard as I could kick,” he describes. “Most of the time I was fighting with someone, or it was anger.”
This was a symptom of a sleep disorder — REM sleep behavior disorder.
Your body cycles through REM, or rapid eye movement, sleep every 60-90 minutes, with most of it occurring later in sleep. Its function isn’t cl