[Anonymous]

Hey everyone, I just wanted to hear some of your experiences with sleep walking. I've been told that I sleep walk a few weeks ago which did slightly startle me. I've been told by my mum that I was sleep walking last week! Basically I had just come back from a club that I had went to with a few friends, I was tired and had a HUGE headache, but after I got home I just went straight to sleep. An hour after I went to sleep I went into my mum's room, woke my mum up and asked for some paracetamol, which I guess makes sense since I had a headache but It is kind of weird that my unconscious state would ask my mum, instead of trying to find the paracetamol myself. But when I was younger and I got headaches I did always used to go to my mum and she would look after me, so I guess it is a habit. The next morning my mum asked me If I had found the paracetamol and I obviously didn't know what she was on about. After finding out that I was sleeping walking, my mum actually told me a previous sleep walking experience when I was on holiday. But the whole sleep walking thing does scare me, because If I can open a door and have normal conversations, who knows what els I could do? I could have a dubstep hating alter ego who smashes up Dubstep CD's .

What are your sleep walking experiences?

[Idle]

Hi, I am just bumping this as you have received no replies yet

[Cake Faced Kid.]

I only ever sleepwalk in unfamiliar environments, usually hotels, which is quite embarrassing. Turning up at reception dressed only in a pair of pants was quite something.

[littlemissmidget123]

I've ever knowingly sleepwalked once.. i went from my room, up a flight of stairs to our attic rom and continued to sleep there.. i was about 7.. freaked me and my parents out big time!

[forgetamine]

I sleepwalk sometimes when I drink alcohol and I do really embarrassing things. I've stopped drinking now because I'm scared it will happen again.

[tweedletallie]

When I was younger I used to sleepwalk a lot. I would go downstairs, ignore my Mum and start rearranging bits of furniture. I never understood why she used to freak out about the sleepwalking until it clicked I was going down a very steep flight of stairs and could have hurt myself really badly if I had slipped. I stopped for a few years, but now that I've started again I have to keep doors locked and give my keys to my brother. If I sleep over someone's house they always scoff when I tell them I sleepwalk. Then they wake up to find all their stuff moved

[pinki_loz92]

I tend to sleep walk when I'm stressed. One time I got up and walked into my parents room stood over my mum and asked for printing paper (I don't know why I wanted printing paper! haha)


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[aja89]

Was a chronic sleepwalker when I was younger, from the age of about 7 to 12. I would do things like come downstairs, sit on the sofa and ask my parents what 'the score' was, as if there was a football game going on!

They would never wake me up as the doctor said it can be detrimental to your mental health to be repeatedly woken from sleep walking and find yourself in a place you didn't expect to be.

[Claire888]

I don't know if this actually happened but when I was on holiday in Tanzania my brother insisted that I had sleep walked. This was a night before we went to a game reserve where we would have hippos, elephants and lions roaming around our camp at night. Clearly this was scary as I didn't really remember. The only thing I remember (if it even happened) is that I remember standing at the door with wet feet (but this may have just been a kind of deja vu, I never knew). Anyway the next night at our camp our door was, lets say insecure, so my brother barricaded it with a sofa, so if I did it again I couldn't get out. This has never happened since (this happened about 6 years ago), no-one has noticed and I haven't had anything that suggests I have, so I'm still not sure if it was my brothers dream or real but it was really odd.

[AdamHarriis]

I have a friend that sleep walks (not sure if he still does these days) But a few of us we're sleeping round his after a party and he got up, went down stairs and made himself cheese on toast. And obviously you're not meant to wake sleep walkers abruptly so we just kept and eye on him, it was hilarious to be honest

[tesmifami]

One day when my alarm went off I woke up in my school uniform, completely ready for school even with my tie on and I was like 'what the hell?' because of course I went to bed in my underpants and I have never sleep walked in the past so I went downstairs and was eating breakfast when my mum came down and I said 'Mum do you know why I woke up in my uniform today?' and she told me that I had got up at 3 A.M showered, dressed and I was about to leave the house to go knock for the friend I walk to school with when she saw me and told me to go to bed because it was not time for school. I had zero recollection of this when I woke up and I mean none even after she said it, its like I did not experience it which makes me think I was asleep but how could I shower in my sleep? and why is that the only time I have ever sleep walked?

I do not think I could have been sleep walking because I do not sleep walk, I think I was probably in this weird state of half sleep half awake which I always find myself in. It's hard to describe it but I get it all the time and if anyone else gets this please let me know. Basically I am awake and still in bed always (expect possibly for the incident I mentioned earlier) but I am totally insane I am not thinking logically at all, for example I am lying in bed CONVINCED there is a swarm of spiders all over my duvet and all over my floor even though I never look for them because I am scared of seeing them so I wrap myself up in my covers and face the wall and I do not dare to turn over for hours because I am certain I will see a swarm of spiders so I stare at the wall. And in my head I am working out the quickest way to dive out of bed and sprint out of my door if the spiders start to attack me. this is always at some weird hour like 1 A.M - 5A.M when there is no light and when I get up I think to myself 'did i really think there was a swarm of spiders in my room last night?' just to clarify this is not a dream while I am asleep this is a sort of delusion when I am awake. Sorry for going off topic because that doesn't count as sleep walking but has anyone else ever had that?

[Simone.xox]

I've done it a couple times but it's never really being a common thing for me.
I find it kind of weird that people can do so much in their sleep, like I've even heard of people driving in their sleep!

[Solid.Snake]

Thankfully i've never had any experiences of sleep walking , it actually sort of scares me having no control over what you're doing in the middle of the night, like you could end up lost outside!

My younger brother, on the other hand suffers heavily from what i call "sleep talking" and unfortunately i have to share my bedroom with him. Every now and then he suddenly bursts out shouting in his sleep about random stuff like yelling at someone in his online call of duty games "Nooo! How did you miss him man! He was on the left! You idiot we lost because of you!!" I find it quite amusing!

[Laurah5498]

I'm a regular sleepwalker. I woke up in my wardrobe yesterday morning!

I find of I'm really tired or have a lot on my mind I'm worse. When i have really vivid dreams I get up and do them of that makes sense? At uni a few months back, I dreamt I was doing myself a glass of water and I woke up at the sink with the tap on.

Most of my journeys involve me trying to get into the airing cupboard but I apparently get bored and get back in to bed. I sleep talk most nights too so I think it's connected. I've never seen my GP about it, i don't feel any more tired than I do if I have been on a wander.


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[smart girl]

I sleeptalk quite often and there have also been incidents of when i have sleepwalked too. All this usually happens when im really tired and been busy that day. I always end up going downstairs whenrver i sleepwalk, so my mum locks all the doors now and hides the main door keys so that i dont go outside, but then again i have my own keys. 


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[Anonymous]

At my uni halls I woke up outside in the hallway, in a t-shirt and underwear. I knocked on my flat door to get back in but everyone was asleep (it was 5am), I had to go outside to the caretakers office and ask him to let me back in! He was very confused hahahaha.

[Kayak]

I sleepwalk, although this year hasn't been too bad for me, I'm hoping it's tailing off now. I find I sleepwalk if sleeping somewhere new to me, or if I've been doing something particularly stressful or tiring. I also sleep talk, which is generally incoherent babbling, or nonsensical string of words that my friends can never remember in the morning because they were half asleep themselves.

I've found when I sleepwalk I'll often realise I'm doing it after a while- when I was little I didn't have a clue, and wouldn't know until the morning when someone asked me if I remembered doing something stupid. What tends to happen now is I'll be having a dream, then for no apparent reason everything will go dark (me opening my eyes!) and then I'll probably either get up and wander about still thinking I'm in the dream, until I realise I'm in my room, or that I'm alone, or I'll shout out for whoever was with me, or if I already happen to be standing up then I'll wander about until I bump into something and wake myself up properly. Can be quite scary because you're quite happy in some dream, then you are plunged into pitch darkness and no ones answering you, you can't see where you are going and you don't expect to be walking in to things, and then half the time I'll realise I'm half naked and stress about that thinking there are still people around!

[Kayak]

A few of my strange night time escapades:

-Scrabbling around the corner of a tent I was sharing with a friend, accusing them of trapping me under a net and trying frantically to claw through the wall of it!

-Waking up in our hotel room in Mexico, believing that I had stepped, Narnia style, out of the wardrobe into an empty room. I then saw suitcases and my sleeping brother (which still didn't jolt my memory) so I assumed I was in someone else's room. Unlocked the door and ran down the corridor, sort of came to my senses and spent the next half an hour banging on our door and Dad's door until I was let back in ):

-Waking up in floods of tears because I'd picked the wrong GCSE's to be a fireman. Took me ten minutes of sobbing before I realised I had never wanted to be a fireman and I should go back to sleep!

-Getting back from a school play, going to sleep, then sleepwalking and thinking I was still in the play- that I was in the wings leaning against the green room door (my bedroom door) with people beside me (my dressing gown) and that I could see the crack through the curtain onto the stage (light coming through my blinds). Then noticed I was in my pants and assumed I'd forgotten to put my costume on- couldn't push my door open so decided I would have to sneak onstage and out the main theatre doors- in doing so I crashed into my bed.

[pinkangelgirl]

i once sleepwalked, my Dad came in because hed heard a massive bang, i was sort of sitting on the floor the other side of the room, dazed, and he put me back to bed, and then 10mins later, i noticed blood on my pillow. Turned out Id split my eye open and had to go to hospital

the bang must have been my face on the window sill but i didnt feel a thing!

[beffnee]

(Original post by tesmifami)
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RE: the half asleep delusions thing... I get this most nights. Normally about bugs in my bed as well. I tend to wake myself up half way through jumping out of my bed to get away from them, but remain convinced that it is true until I have to consciously tell myself it's in my head and to go back to sleep. I normally continue to wake up repeatedly through the night thinking it afterwards. I think it tends to happen when I'm not in a deep sleep yet? Or it seems that way anyway. I've had the same waking dream for months now, every night... I had them particularly when I was in Africa a few summers ago... But I put that down to the malaria tablets. A few weeks ago, I convinced myself I was trapped in a room with no handle and was going to die there... I was, of course, pushing my door rather than turning the handle and pulling it open. I am fully aware of doing it though not in a conscious sort of way.

I am, however, a sleepwalker (and sleeptalker, I must be a delight! Though my best friend screams in her sleep which is far more terrifying!!). I was particularly bad as a child. I have been known to hold conversations with my parents, and even with myself in the mirror. One night I unlocked all the doors, including the front door... I was outside in the road when my parents found me to bring me inside.

Nowadays, I tend to wake myself up in my actions... Usually from some sort of rapid movement e.g. Jumping out of bed at speed, it's like I've run out... Or from the sound of a closing door. I've done this on holiday, without my key. Woke up as the door shut. My best friend wouldn't open the door because she thought I had just got up to go to the toilet and that it was some psycho trying to get in. I had to find a phone to ring the room, of course I was in knickers and a camisole, and reception was full of American families heading out for the day as it was 7am and their tours we starting soon. Embarrassed wasn't the word!


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