Police spent 22 hours searching for sleepwalking woman who went 行方不明の in her dressing gown before she was 設立する 安全な 近づく home
- Wendy Richards, 43, was 設立する 近づく her home in Burton-upon-Trent
- Staffordshire Police had been searching for her for around 22 hours
- Ms Richards was 述べるd as 'a bit 冷淡な' but 安全な and 井戸／弁護士席
設立する: Wendy Richards, 43, went 行方不明の from her home in the Stretford area of Burton-upon-Trent
Police 開始する，打ち上げるd a major 追跡（する） today for a woman with a history of sleepwalking who went 行方不明の for 22 hours in her pyjamas and dressing gown.
Wendy Richards, 43, drifted out of her home in Stretton, Burton-upon-Trent, at around 9.30pm last night.
Staffordshire Police said she was 設立する around 8.30pm this evening 近づく her home.
She was 述べるd as 'a bit 冷淡な' but 安全な and 井戸／弁護士席. Medics were checking her over.
A 軍隊 広報担当者 said: 'We pass on our best wishes to this individual.
'Thank you to all team members for 答える／応じるing so 速く and willingly.'
Police had said Ms Richards is known to sleepwalk as part of a 医療の 条件 and has 以前 been 設立する some distance from home.
Officers also said they were growing ますます 関心d for her 福利事業.
Ms Richards was 述べるd as white, about 5ft 5ins, わずかな／ほっそりした, with shoulder-length brown hair, and is believed to be wearing blue flowery long-sleeved pyjamas, and a brown dressing gown.
The 事例／患者 echoes a 類似の 事例／患者 in March last year when a woman who was thought to have climbed through her kitchen window while sleepwalking was 設立する about 12 miles away.
Joy Grigg, 50, 誘発するd a major police search after 消えるing in the 早期に hours of the morning.
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Her husband Richard, 53, awoke to find his wife gone and the kitchen window wide open.
She was 行方不明の for nearly 24 hours until a member of the public 設立する her in a hedge 近づく Camelford, Cornwall, at 12.30am the に引き続いて day.
Wendy Richards' house in Stretton, Burton-upon-Trent. She was 設立する nearby
Search: A police car outside Ms Richards' home in Stretton, Burton-upon-Trent
WHEN DOES SLEEPWALKING OCCUR?
Somnambulism, or sleepwalking, typically occurs when people are in 深い sleep 早期に in the night, but does not take place during 早い 注目する，もくろむ movement (REM) sleep, which is the time when 注目する，もくろむs move quickly and vivid dreaming is ありふれた.
Sleepwalking occurs when normal physiological systems are active when they're not supposed to be. Scientists are still puzzling out why the brain 問題／発行するs 命令（する）s to muscles during 確かな sleep 段階s, but do know the 命令（する）s are usually 抑えるd by other brain 機械装置s.
For some people however, this 鎮圧 is not fully recognised - 予定 to genetic or 環境の factors.
The sleepwalker cannot 答える／応じる during the 出来事/事件, even though their 注目する，もくろむs are open,
and often won't remember it. If they are awoken, they will be disorientated for a short time.
The 原因（となる） is 一般に unknown, but it is believed to be genetic. 悪化させるing 環境の factors are 疲労，（軍の）雑役, a 欠如（する） of sleep, fever 強調する／ストレス and alcohol or 麻薬 use.
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