Violent Sleeping

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Anyone else have violent sleeping and is it an Aspie trait? I seem to swear, kick, throw stuff, and even punch in my sleep.

I punch and kick people when they try to wake me up. And I hate waking up, I avoid it if at all possible. And when I first get up I'm really pissy.

I have a granddaughter that does that (from the complaints on the other side of the room), but it's too early to tell if she's one way or the other (19 months)

Sometimes I'l come right out of REM sleep to being awake. I have conflict dreams often, and when there's no interval between the end of the dream and waking, I sometimes punch the wall, kick, shout some nonsense leftover from REM sleep.

But violent movement during REM cycle? No, not that I know of. Sleepwalking & such isn't supposed to happen in the first place. Your skeletal muscles are supposed to shut down during sleep, affecting paralysis and unconsciousness together.

"Sleep-paralysis" is another wonk of the nervous-system altogether. Are you actually awake and paralysed or simply dreaming that you are awake and paralysed? Intriguing, isn't it?

I have weird dreams and Im a little violent, but the creepiest thing is that I sit up in the middle of the nigt, open my eyes, look all around, and then lie back down and sleep with my eyes open. I dont know Im doing it but my friends have told me it freaks them out.

Oh yes I am a violent sleeper. But I never minded my dog sleeping next to me. Unfortunately he is dead now and burialed in my parents garden.

Last edited by flitterstads on 11 May 2008, 2:12 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Blaargh, who would want a dead dog next to them while they sleep?

Don't know if I'm aspie, but I'm a very violent sleeper. I don't punch so much, more slap if anything, but I kick the hell out of my wall. No-one likes sharing a room with me. I sleep babble as well, and occasionally sleep walk, although this seems to be getting rarer. I also wake alot during the night, and I too absolutely hate getting up in the morning! I'm a cranky monster for the first 20-30 minutes!

Some people like the pressure of heavy blankets or dead animals on them when they sleep?



mojo123

My hair's sooooo messy when I wake up...sometimes I wonder what I do in the night
I always have to have a teddy bear (or something else like it) with me to sleep. I have a monkey now, but I used to have a brown teddy bear I named Black Bear (Don't even ask why)

lol. when we (my brother and i) were kids we used to go and stay at my grandparents house for a week during the summer. i guess i slept with her a couple of times and she'd say i would kick and punch her in my sleep. oh and while i was a teenager i really dont know if i was 'violant' in my sleep but i would fall asleep facing one way and wake up the oppiosite direction, so i moved around alot. now i usaully stay pretty still.

I'm like that. I mean, I don't punch and kick, but I toss and turn a lot, and whenever my aunt visits and we have to sleep in the same bed, she says I constantly elbow her in the eye (why's it always the eye?). And I also avoid getting up, and am also really pissy when I get up. But aren't most non-morning people like that? I think it's a trait that applies to any type of person.

I aways scream while I am sleeping, somethings at the window, or seeing samsquanchs, the other night after I got back from a 3 day sleepless road trip, I was kicking in my sleep, and screaming again, I do have PTSD from some childhood trauma that I don't remember, my sisters and dad also had the same thing, from sleepwalking to talking in our sleep

Lol, yeah, you're not supposed to be able to move during your REM cycle.
Compared to some of the stuff I'm reading here, my sleep is pretty normal. I have had some very very disturbing dreams, but I have a friend who dreams about killing her friends, and about them killing each other, or her.
As far as I know, I've had ONE case of sleepwalking. I was napping on the end of my bed during the day, and my mom came in and woke me up and said, "Oh, you cutie! You fell asleep!" Then she brought me downstairs and asked if I'd filled the pot with water like she'd asked. I was like, "Huh?" She said that I'd come downstairs, and she'd asked me to fill up a pot with water. I didn't remember it at all, and she did remark that I looked a little out of it, so we have to assume I was sleepwalking.
I also talk sometimes in my sleep, usually it's only if someone is saying something to me while I sleep. I guess it's something like, my ears hear it but my brain doesn't. So basically my brain perceives external stimuli but doesn't process it, but nevertheless it tells me, "Respond out loud!" and I do. Example: Once, my mom came in to wake me up, and when she finally succeeded, she told me (laughing), that when she told me to wake up, I'd responded by saying, "I was in a coma when I wrote those..."
This example is prominent in my mind because I actually know why I said that. At the time my mom woke me up, I'd been having a dream that I was a famous author/journalist. Someone came up to me and criticized something I'd written -- I panicked and tried to think of an excuse for my allegedly sh***y work, and came up with, "I was in a coma when I wrote those!" I know it's lame, but it was supposed to be something like, "Yeah! That's right! I was in a COMA! I'd like to see YOU try to write something in a COMA!"
Lol. ^^

I talk, walk, snore, grind my teeth in my sleep. A few times I went walking in my sleep and my aunt was up, she tried to wake me but she couldn't and I guess I ended up walking into the pool. Since then she has put alarms on my bed, my bedroom door and the doors that lead to the outside. She has also put secure locking mechanisims on the doors that unless I'm fully awake I cannot operate. I guess that has cut down on the walking. She has also put me on the other side of the house from where she sleeps.

My wife told me that one time I punched her in the shoulder and said, "Pikachu, I choose you!" while I was asleep. I hope that was a bit of a fluke, though.