Sleepwalking
 

Anyone else here have any experiences with sleepwalking? Be it themselves or friends / family?

I've been sleepwalking multiple times per year since I was a child. It's weird that it seems to come and go in episodes. I had a week or so just before my sister's wedding in November that I was sleepwalking. That was a weird spell - I was mainly opening all of the cupboards in my sleep and finding bibles in my house and dragging them into my bed.

One night, because I thought for some irrational reason it would stop me doing it, I hid the bibles from myself. I woke up the next morning with every book from my bookshelves on the floor, and the bibles in bed with me. Fortunately, this spell stopped by the time I was out of town for the wedding.

My most recent sleepwalking venture is also weird, and involves canned goods. I woke up a couple of days in a row with canned goods stacked in pyramids on the counter. Then, last night, I apparently opened a can of corn in my sleep and poured it on the floor beside my bed.

My mom tells me that when I was a child, my sleepwalking was weirder. I would walk to my relatives' houses in my sleep, wake them up by, you know, being in their house, then they would find me digging through their refrigerators. When they said my name, I'd turn around and look at them, then walk back to my house.

Sleepwalking is whack.

When I lived at home, I ended up sleepwalking to the upstairs door and managed to unlock the door and walk outside. Only reason I remember is because my older bro told me he saw me out there the night before. I literally thought it was a dream at first.

My daughter has done it a few times. One night she wandered into the kitchen and was pulling plastic bags out of the cupboard. When we asked what she was doing she said she was looking for her brother. Another time she was staring up the wall at the shadows.

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So you still remembered a part of it, even if it did seem like a dream?

:rofl:

The cupboard incident actually sounds as though it was probably adorable.

i don't sleepwalk, but according to my fiancee, i do go into long monologues in my sleep, mostly reviewing music, and especially The Replacements, for some reason

i have a cousin who sleepwalked, he used to stay with us during his school holidays, he slept in the same bed with me, but the next morning, he'd be face down in the living room, or sleeping hugging the toilet bowl

The can of corn thing is amazing.

I did a couple of times, once when I was drunk, by going into my parents room drunk and fling the aerial off their TV and not remembering. The other time I got up, told my flatmates to quieten down and then I didn't know I did it until the next day when they told me.

Ive done it a few times but all I really do is walk from our couch to my bed or vice versa. Or at least, thats all I do that I've heard about.

I used to sleepwalk a lot as a child. Notable examples was one where I apparently mistook the refrigerator for the toilet and almost pissed in it, but my sister brought me to the bathroom, where I proceeded to piss all over the door.
Another occasion, I walked out of the house and laid down in the street. Fortunately, my mom had heard the door open so she was able to scoop me up before I got ran over.

Never again did I sleepwalk after puberty age. Just abruptly went away.

Yeah. I have a good memory of my dreams. That's what resulted in me talking about it to my family who were having dinner, than my older brother noted that it wasn't a dream. I was like "lolwut"

Yeah it was pretty funny. Like nobody could possibly fit in the cupboard she was looking in. That's how we realised she was actually asleep.

The shadow thing is a bit weirder. We just heard a noise and found her standing in the dimly lit hallway against the wall staring up into the shadows. There is this recurrent character in her nightmares called "Blacky" who is kind of a shadow figure.

I'm a sleepwalker as well, though the older I get the less often it happens. When I was younger I did it much more frequently and apparently I would always try to leave the house; one time I walked past my mom who was sitting in the living room, out the front door and started walking to the pool across the street. She said they ended up having to install a deadbolt that was out of my reach. :laughing:

Other notable examples include a night when I was staying over at my cousin's house and I ended up pouring laundry soap over everything and turning two jugs of milk upside down in their refrigerator with the caps off. Then later in high school after I moved out of my parent's house I went through a phase where I would wake up in the living room watering, arranging, or generally fucking with my plants.

I haven't slept-walk much in the last few years though, at least not that I remember. Sometimes I wake up just standing in a different room than I was sleeping in, but I don't really count that. So far my roommate hasn't been freaked out by it so all is well.

I'm not a sleepwalker but I'm a sleeptalker. A couple days ago my wife woke up to me saying "Stiletto" to her. The funny part is I clearly remember having a dream where she asked me what the name of the crow on Danger Mouse was (his name is Stiletto).

That's what worries me about my daughter. She hasn't tried to leave the house yet but if she did I'm a pretty heavy sleeper.



My wife is too. Well more of a sleep-screamer. It always seems to happen when she is fighting with someone in her dreams.

I am very bad when it comes to sleep talking. I always do it with other people in my bed and occasionally I wake up alone saying something. I've woken up many times in tears as well. There was once a time where I woke up screaming.

Apparently I also sleep talk. Funny thing is, the person who says I sleep talk says that she's both terrified and amazed at the things I say. I don't remember saying things in my sleep, at all.

I find that statement interesting. What was it like Milano?

If you read my post, I said I don't remember it happening though i'm told that it happens. So I can't answer your question.

I used to sleepwalk before I was around ten or so.

My mother once had this plant that she thought was just downright gorgeous, but all of a sudden, it started to just die, regardless of the relentlessly good care with which she took care of it. One night, she was doing laundry and I came out into the living room (where the plant was) and right in front of her, started peeing into the pot. I did not remember this at all the next day, but my mom thought that it was too cute to be mad at me, so it all worked out. I've also had a similar event with a hamper, but that wasn't as ongoing.

Also, one that's not as funny but a little more scary for my parents was that when I was four, I sleptwalk into the living room and wrapped myself up in a curtain in a corner where they couldn't see me. They searched the house and were about to call the police until I woke up and started crying for some reason. Glad that this is my only scare though.

I don't sleepwalk anymore, but it has left me with some good stories.

I did the same thing, at around the same age. My sisters and I shared a bedroom and I sleptwalked to the livingroom and wrapped myself in one of the drapes in the corner, just as you did. My eldest sister woke up to use the bathroom and noticed I wasn't in my bed. She searched the apartment and luckily, it didn't take her long to find me. I was still in a twilight sleep as she unravelled me from the drapes, so she walked me back to our room - and put me in her bed with her so I wouldn't venture out again.

I had an episode last night for the first time in years. I woke up in my bed this morning but my room was completely trashed, things were in bizarre places and when I went to check the rest of the house my door was locked. I remember dreaming that I was in bed with my roommate (not a sex dream) but I was worried all day that I had done something to creep her out, haha. When I went to go to work my keys were on the porch, I'm terrified that I was trying to drive somewhere. The entire thing was really unsettling. :(

Wow, that is unsettling... Tie yourself down when you're off to bed? Eesh. I'm sorry.

Two different roommates of mine have told me I've sleptwalked, but I just don't see it. I don't thrash anything, I don't try to leave the house, I don't believe either of them. I'd have to record myself sleeping for a while. Perhaps it's just once every couple years, I dunno.

I wouldn't record myself sleeping. If anything weird happened, I would never sleep again.

I sleepwalked heaps as a child, but I have kind grown out of it - now I just sleep talk.

When I was younger I have been known to sleepwalk into roommates bedrooms, screwed up my blanket and thrown it down the stairs, and other random things.

It's really freaky though when you wake up and don't remember any of it. I remember waking up with no blanket or bed coverings, being totally freaked out, and then finding them at the bottom of the stairs. It scares me!

I'd be afraid to see what I say in my sleep if someone recorded it.

One of these days I will.

You were whimpering last night and saying "no" over and over. D:

That's awful!

I woke up once with the car keys in bed with me, and am still horribly concerned about what went on that night: I seriously watched every single local news show to make damn sure there were no hit and runs the night before, even though my car was in pristine condition.

Still very scary.