“Waking a sleepwalker is dangerous.”

The widespread notion that waking a sleepwalker is dangerous finds its origins in centuries of misunderstanding and folklore. Historically, sleepwalking was often attributed to supernatural (Review) forces, such as a wandering soul or even demonic influence, leading to beliefs that a sudden awakening could trap the soul outside the body or incur other grave spiritual consequences. [cite: 1, 2, 7, 8, 10,