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HelloHockeyFans · 08-01-2008, 10:03 AM

*Somnambulist is the fancy word for Sleepwalker

I know I've sleepwalked in the past, but until last night I'm not aware of having done it for a long, long time.

So I wake up clearly half asleep and pretty much completely out of it, crouched down on the floor with both hands also on the floor. Now, I'm half asleep and wasn't really thinking clearly at all, but for some reason I basically jumped from my squating position on the floor on to my bed.

Once I was in my bed, I pulled the covers over me and tried to fall back asleep, but felt a crazy pain on the top of my right foot and the top of my left hand. For whatever reason, I disregarded the pain and tried to fall back asleep, which I ended up doing.

Woke up this morning to a painful foot and hand and looking down, found that there was a huge bruise on the top of my foot that's about 2 inches long and 1 inch wide in the shape of a rectangle.

Wikipedia on Sleepwalking: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleepwalking

Ford Prefect · 08-01-2008, 11:18 AM

I'm not but my son is. He did it more when he was younger and not so much now that he's in his teens. It's lead to some interesting incidents. It was common for him to walk into a room and start talking to someone while being sound asleep. His eye's would be wide open and his speech was crystal clear, but he didn't make much sense and didn't respond within context to things said to him. He'd open doors, turn on lights, go up and down stairs and all that. He never wandered outside, but we had a dead bolt, security chain and alarm system on the door just to make sure.

A buddy of mine was once found playing pool in the dark while sleep walking. He was making his shots too.

All in all, I think it would be rather disconcerting, not to mention dangerous, to be a sleep walker. From what I've gathered it seems to be more common when a person is a kid, but your experience last night shows it can obviously crop up again anytime. That would be unsettling.

chid · 08-01-2008, 03:04 PM

My good friend is REALLY bad for sleepwalking, he actually had to get surgery on his foot last year because he was at a friends house and started to sleep walk, walked into those fireplace pokers and it impaled his foot..
Its pretty dangerous

Locke · 08-01-2008, 03:06 PM

I once woke up in the middle of the room holding a knife and covered in blood. Does that count? Dont tell the police, they'll send me away.

ricoFlame · 08-01-2008, 03:14 PM

when i was a kid i watched my cousin get down from the top bunk of the bunk bed, walk to the corner of his bedroom and take a leak in the corner. he then went back up to bed and tucked himself in without waking up. it was hilarious.

black rubber disc bunny · 08-01-2008, 04:02 PM

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Originally Posted by ricoFlame

when i was a kid i watched my cousin get down from the top bunk of the bunk bed, walk to the corner of his bedroom and take a leak in the corner. he then went back up to bed and tucked himself in without waking up. it was hilarious.

My brother took a leak on our table hockey while sleep walking. Didn't play a lot of table hockey after that.

Vulcan · 08-01-2008, 04:10 PM

I once woke up standing outside in the rain. I haven't sleep walked since I was 18, that I know of but I still talk in my sleep.

missdpuck · 08-01-2008, 04:54 PM

I woke up a block away from my house once. I was in my nightgown and it was 2am. I kept waiting for it to happen again so I put a kitchen chair with 2 glass bottles on it in front of the door hoping Id either wake up from the noise or maybe from stepping on glass. Silly huh.

Southern_Canuck · 08-01-2008, 06:30 PM

My son has been experiencing "night terrors" which are related to sleep walking in that they both are considered to be genetic, and both occur during the non-REM part of sleep.

Let me just say that night terrors are extremely weird, and suck immensely.

S_C

missdpuck · 08-01-2008, 06:45 PM

Anyone ever had a "lucid dream" where it seems like you can control what goes on in the dream?

ResAlien · 08-01-2008, 06:51 PM

I most definitely have the same problem. It didn't start until I was about 23, but let's see here, I've;

Woken up outside, in my boxers, with the door locked behind me in the middle of the night. Did I mention it was in the middle of a snowstorm? I had to break the door in just to get back into the house...

Woken up in a corner in the house, completely disoriented, freaking out because I had no idea where I was...

Woken up naked on the couch with half the contents of my refrigerator sitting on the kitchen counter for some reason...

I hate it. Those are just a few things. The worst is being woken up while it happens. You are completely disoriented, have no clue what is going on and don't understand why someone is bothering you while you sleep. So, to summarize, sleepwalking blows.

From what I've been told and looked up, it seems to be stress related (at least in my case). It really only happens when I have some major stress going on in my life. I just try to not get stressed out as much (yeah, easy right?)

Edit: I've been told I talk in my sleep. I also have a nasty habit of waking up swinging when someone wakes me up from a deep sleep. That has come close to turning out very poorly on a few occasions.

missdpuck · 08-01-2008, 06:54 PM

ResAlien-- it is scary. I've never seen any solution for it.

notoepik · 08-01-2008, 07:22 PM

HHF, you were also on MSN lastnight. Weirdest convo ever with you.

You didn't say anything!

doozwimp · 08-01-2008, 08:28 PM

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Originally Posted by missdpuck

Anyone ever had a "lucid dream" where it seems like you can control what goes on in the dream?

All the time. Pretty boring actually. (Even flying around like Neo)

Berger_4_ · 08-02-2008, 06:57 AM

I don't do it anymore, but I used to once in a while. Most memorable one was probably when I got up, grabbed a sleeping bag from the closet, then proceeded to camp out by sleeping under the kitchen table. I'll talk in my sleep from time to time, and that's always weird to wake up to.

Incogneto · 08-02-2008, 08:23 AM

Somnabulist?

HelloHockeyFans · 08-02-2008, 09:44 AM

Yeah, this was the first time I've ever actually woken up while I was in between sleep state and awake state. Pretty frightening to be honest, 'cause there's this absence of control and what seemed like the inability to fully wake myself. In between worlds almost.

nickerjones · 08-02-2008, 04:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Locke

I once woke up in the middle of the room holding a knife and covered in blood. Does that count? Dont tell the police, they'll send me away.

locke

im turning you in on august 18 , you can then rot in mda lock up with me

..... dont worry they are serving steak and ribs!!!

Locke · 08-02-2008, 04:27 PM

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Originally Posted by nickerjones

locke

im turning you in on august 18 , you can then rot in mda lock up with me

..... dont worry they are serving steak and ribs!!!

Sounds good. Thats better than the swill I'm forced to eat around here.

3 Justin 3 · 08-03-2008, 03:57 AM

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Originally Posted by missdpuck

Anyone ever had a "lucid dream" where it seems like you can control what goes on in the dream?

No.

When ever I am having a "good" dream, like doing something cool/fun or with hot chicks, it always changes when it starts to get good, then it sucks for a while and I wake up.

On a more related note, my brother sleep talks. When we were in Florida we had to share a room, and in the middle of the night I woke up (because he was talking) and he was like freaking out. It went something like this (he is K, I am J):

K: *Sits up frantically, panicking* Where are we? *wimpering* ...the doors...their closing in. Where are the doors? Why are they all locked? *He then looks to the right where a door was (no access though)* ...The door, where is it? They are coming we better leave.

J: Shut up and go to bed.

K: But there are no doors and we are trapped!

J: SHUT THE HELL UP!

K: *Lays back down and starts muttering to himself*

That is all, I told him later and he laughed, but it isn't the first time he has done it.

At home once I went to bed late, and our rooms are right next to each other so I have to walk past his to get to mine. And he once was standing up talking like someone from Star Trek, and I yelled at him, and he went to bed.

It is very weird, when ever I yell at him when he is sleeptalking/walking he seems to understand me and react (oddly), but remain "asleep", and he has no memories in the morning. I laugh when it happens, but luckily it has never gotten serious.