Ever walked around in your sleep?

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26 Aug 2008, 9:07 pm

Sleepwalking - one of the many things that fascinate me.

I did it when I was 13. I was at boy scout camp. I remember it was very dark and I was drawn to the glow of the scout leader's gas lantern. I don't remember exactly what I did or if I said anything. That's really all I remember - darkness and the glow of the lantern.

The other night, I was having a dream that my daughter was chewing on some morning glory vines and I acted out taking the vine away from her with my wife who was next to me in bed. She woke me up asking if I was having a dream.

really weird stuff.



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26 Aug 2008, 11:35 pm

Maybe you was having a dream. I've had dreams of myself walking in the house. I usually walk all through the house during the night before I go to bed but I never have sleepwalked.



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26 Aug 2008, 11:50 pm

I once woke to find myself sweeping the floor. I have also had nightmares to real that I injured myself trying to get away.


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26 Aug 2008, 11:54 pm

digger1 wrote:
Sleepwalking - one of the many things that fascinate me.

I did it when I was 13. I was at boy scout camp. I remember it was very dark and I was drawn to the glow of the scout leader's gas lantern. I don't remember exactly what I did or if I said anything. That's really all I remember - darkness and the glow of the lantern.

The other night, I was having a dream that my daughter was chewing on some morning glory vines and I acted out taking the vine away from her with my wife who was next to me in bed. She woke me up asking if I was having a dream.

really weird stuff.


I am a somnambulist from childhood, and never grew out of it. I only get second hand reports of what I have done - I don't remember a blessed thing (although sometimes I leave a clue - a light on that I remember turning off, or my head at the wrong end of the bed, etc) . I have done very complicated acts, like trying to perform first aid, and other times I have gone for walks (although thankfully have never left the building). It usually happens when I am very stressed or overly tired. I talk in my sleep too, apparently.

I do have waking dreams - this morning I managed to stop myself from screaming because I was convinced that a dark hand was reaching over my mouth, and was scared enough to wake up - I could have sworn I was awake, though. 8O

You are right, it is a freaky sort of thing.


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27 Aug 2008, 3:54 am

Ehm..i`ve been discussing this earlier, and i might be
the one walking the most in his sleep in this place.
Do it regularly, have done for over 25 years. You name
it, i probably have done it in my sleep :) doesnt bother me,
so used to it.

I`ve walked outside in the snow and -20 degrees celsius
temperatures, only wearing a boxer shorts,
if that doesnt wake me, nothing will :)



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27 Aug 2008, 5:03 am

I used to sleep walk all the time when I was 6 to 8 years old. I would wake up in places I didn't go to sleep in or to stories from my dad about how I had to be re-directed back to bed because I was walking around the house in my sleep.



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27 Aug 2008, 7:51 am

I've never walked in my sleep (at least as far as I'm aware), but I've been told that I talk in my sleep all the time. My parents usually say they can't make out what I'm saying, but they say I'm definitely talking.



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27 Aug 2008, 8:05 am

I should tape and post me talking in my sleep, its too funny,
turns out i hold long, one sided debates in my sleep, problem
is i talk fast and slurry so no one knows excatly what i`m on about,
and when they ask, i always get annoyed they tell me and get
a little upset and say things like "but why dont you understand
this? *sigh*" One time my girlfriend found me laying on my back
talking and "shooting" into the air with something. She asked, and i
answered "come on, i`m shooting leaves, how can you not see that?"
and then i continued my leaf shooting for 10 more minutes :lol:
when i woke up she was still laughing

My most scary sleep walking incident: I go to bed, wake up, look around
and find myself walking down the sidewalk in a real busy street in downtown
oslo 2 blocks over from where i lived 8O I just froze and went "hang on a
minute, this isn`t right, where the hell am i?" That, was weird. And i was dressed!
Woke up slowly at all the car noices around me, they got stronger and stronger.
To this day i would love to know what my plan was, where was i going :) Had my
cash, my keys and everything and i had locked the door behind me, so i was obviously
heading somewhere.



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27 Aug 2008, 10:04 am

am do not sleep walk,but sister says her boyfriend sleep-skiis,she said he will be doing all the skiing movements in bed,
and he has never skiied before,he also talks random crap at the same time,would be good to video that.


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27 Aug 2008, 10:16 am

Sleepwalking can be very funny - like some of the stories in this thread! Leaafshooting and sleepskiing!

I have sleepwalked a few times, but I haven't done it recently. A few times, I've got up and rearranged things in my room, or gone into the bathroom to brush my teeth and stuff as if it was morning. Once, I went into my parents' room and woke my mum up and scared her by shouting "Where's the piece of paper?!" :lol: Strangely, my dad didn't wake up.



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27 Aug 2008, 10:17 am

Aparently i talk in my sleep, from what I know I say things they way I think with no filter. I dont know if I walk though, I know I have had times when I have done a few things in a partial sleep state, and I have dreamt while being awake. Lately I have been able to pay more attention to my dreams.


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27 Aug 2008, 10:21 am

Bradleigh wrote:
Aparently i talk in my sleep, from what I know I say things they way I think with no filter. I dont know if I walk though, I know I have had times when I have done a few things in a partial sleep state, and I have dreamt while being awake. Lately I have been able to pay more attention to my dreams.


That might be what i`m doing also, somethings not completly shut down
for the night and the mouth is connected to it :lol: the words just flow



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27 Aug 2008, 10:23 am

KingdomOfRats wrote:
am do not sleep walk,but sister says her boyfriend sleep-skiis,she said he will be doing all the skiing movements in bed,
and he has never skiied before,he also talks random crap at the same time,would be good to video that.


:lol: that sounds so funny, sleep-skiing
is it downhill or cross-country? :lol:



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27 Aug 2008, 10:37 am

I don't think i've ever sleepwalked... if i have no ones told me lol

But I remember the 1 night i was half asleep and my step brother slept walked into my room saying something which i could not understand and it jus scared the crap out of me i wondered who it was at first coz obviously if your like half asleep you've woke up in the middle of a dream or something.


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27 Aug 2008, 11:16 am

only when I have nocturnal seizures, but more often than not those just cause flipping and flopping



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28 Aug 2008, 1:44 pm

I do sleep walk, and I've been doing it since I was little. It's wierd I'll wake up and find myself sleeping on the floor. One time I turned on all the lights in the house. Someone caught me walking around in a sort of trance. It really freaked them out.