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Reitz was also sent to a sleep clinic like this one for a battery of tests to see if he really did have a recognized sleeping disorder, something severe enough to produce such violence. he was wired and monitored and recorded. and as he fell asleep, cameras rolled. then the tests revealed not only a propensity to sleepwalk, reitz also suffered a significant night terror that was caught on tape and later featured in an australian documentary on sleepwalking. >> is it possible in this case there w...

Tape and later featured in an australian documentary on sleepwalking. >> is it possible in this case there was a sleep terror episode and a sleepwalking episode which would somehow happening at the same time and thus created this tremendous violence? >> its very likely. patients may wake up, be terrified, fulfill all the criteria for what we call sleep terror and then go on to develop a sleepwalking episode. >> dr. alon avidan runs the ucla sleep center in los angeles. he was not involved in the...