If not weren't for a bush, a 27-year-old man would have died mainly because he was sleepwalking.
The Ohio native Ryan Campbell, 27, was camping with his friends in the Red River Gorge in Kentucky following the Grays Arch Trail. He decided to sleep on a hammock. By early morning the next day, however, he started to sleepwalk, which his friends noticed. It wasn't before long he had gone over the 60-feet cliff and fell down.
Realizing what had happened, Campbell panicked and immediately thought that he had suffered major injuries from the fall or that he was already dying. When the rescuers were able to pull him up after more than 2 hours, they discovered that he survived the incident unscathed, except for a minor cut at the back of his head, thanks to the rhododendron bush. While being hoisted up, Campbell was able to see how far he had fallen.
After the incident, Campbell, who had never been diagnosed for sleepwalking, implied that he may not go back to camping anytime soon to avoid putting himself in the same situation.
Last December 2013, a Rob Williams, 27, was reported to have fallen from a 13-feet window of a hotel in the United Kingdom. He was then discovered the next day dead, being frozen to death. He started sleepwalking at a young age.
Known medically as somnambulism, sleepwalking is a sleeping disorder that is characterized by doing activities and movements while the person is in deep sleep. A sleepwalker may sit on the bed for hours, but the most distinct and common feature is walking.
Sleepwalking happens to more than 10 percent of the population, though they are more common to children aging 3 to 7 years old than adults.
Most of them are aware they are sleepwalking because of the clues they leave around the area or reports shared to them by friends and family who witness them doing so. It's rare for someone who sleepwalks to have a clear recollection of such incident.
