Sleepwalker alert!

Sameera Reddy has been diagnosed with somnambulism (see box).

The actress has encountered with a lot of weird and funny incidents because of this condition.

Sameera confirms, " Yes I do walk in my sleep with my eyes open. I discovered I had it when I was a kid. It sounds funny and we laugh about it, but my parents have gone through sleepless nights. They have become light sleepers since they were always worried about me walking out of the house."

Used to it now

She further adds, "We stay on the ninth floor and I used to walk in my sleep, towards the big windows in the hall. This frightened my parents so much that they ended up putting grills and started double-locking the windows."

The actress reveals that she has consulted doctors for the condition, "I took homeopathic treatment. I tried a lot for a cure but now I don't want to do all of that. I am quite used to it and I normally tend to walk around only in my room, subconsciously."

Freaking 'em out

The actress reveals that a lot of funny and scary incidents have occurred while she has been away from her home, while on location. She shares, "People who aren't aware of my sleepwalking get petrified. Once while I was shooting outdoor, in the middle of the night I woke up and was trying to break the door lock. It woke up all the cast and crew on the same floor, and they all wondered what I was up to!"

"At another shoot, one night we all were having conversations about ghosts. Later that night, I started talking in my sleep, and it scared the pants off everyone around" she adds.

Sameera is normally accompanied by an assistant on her shoots. She says, "And as I have grown older, I have learned to control it up to a point."

A walk while dreaming on...

Sleepwalking (also called somnambulism or noctambulism) is a parasomnia or sleep disorder where the sufferer engages in activities that are normally associated with wakefulness while he or she is asleep or in a sleep-like state. Sleepwalking is usually defined by or involves the person affected apparently shifting from his or her prior sleeping position and moving around and performing normal actions as if awake. It is inexact to assume that somnambulists are unconscious during their nocturnal sleepwalking episodes. They are simply not conscious of their actions on a level where memory of the sleepwalking episode can be recalled.