Sleepwalking, talking, and scrambling eggs?

[SouthernBreeze]

I've been sleepwalking for as long as I can remember. The first time that I know I did it was when I was eight. I went to the bathroom in the middle of the night and fell asleep. I awoke taking a bath. My mom told me later that she actually came in the bathroom and talked to me, and she actually thought I was awake. Since then, I have done it numerous times. When I was in high school, I made a breakfast of scambled eggs and toast while asleep. To my knowledge, I've never gone outside while asleep, but I have a feeling I'm a lot more active then I know. In college I often woke up while fumbling for the doorknob of my room, and even now I find out in the morning that I have made nightly trips to the bathroom that I wasn't aware of. I will talk to anyone around me and, according to my mom, my eyes will be open and I will appear awake. I've actually been known to insist that I was awake. Because I can see and interact with the environment, my dreams are particularly clear - often happening where I am actually located. I remember one dream I was looking up at hundreds of spiders on the ceiling, but I couldn't warn my mom who was in the next room. I really was looking at her, but there were no actual spiders. I once grabbed my cat, Streak, in the middle of the night and cuddled him like a teddy bear. I only woke up because my teddy bear was purring so loudly. I have to put alarm clocks out of my reach or I will turn them off in my sleep.

I have had some sleep studies. I do have sleep apnea (don't have the machine yet because of a problem with insurance), however even the doctor said I was an unusually active sleeper. Supposedly, I sat up in the middle of the night and insisted they take the wires off of me, but the convinced me to continue the test. Of course, I don't remember any of this. I wake up exhausted from my nightly activities. Any ideas?

[bigbadbigfoot]

I'm not sure what I can say to be helpful, but I do have to say that's the funniest thing I've ever heard. SERIOUSLY. My uncle was a sleepwalker, unfortunately the kind that would get up and walk outside. I sleepwalked at least once. My mom caught me rummaging around my room cleaning up and looking for something. You might see a hypnotherapist or see if there's someway to artificially provide the missing hormone released in REM sleep (I could be talking out my butt here. That may not be possible.) Otherwise I'd say you have a fully functional split personality and should try to get the most out of it, see if you can get your sub to clean up for you or maybe write a diary.

[Nature_Spirit]

I have done some sleepwalking when I was a teenager. Once I was sleeping on a train, and I got up and walked 5 train cars away, and woke up cuddled up to a strange lady with my head on her shoulder. I woke up all confused, because I had been sleeping next to my brother. Everyone laughed and said looked a little out of it when I stumbled in there.

One of my half-brothers did a lot of sleepwalking, but he would be having nightmares, or he would think he was playing baseball, and running all around, We would have to restrain him, and he still wouldn't wake up. Eventually after half an hour or so, we'd get him back to bed, but it wasn't easy.

What you're describing is really dangerous. One sleepwalker went jogging in the middle of the night and got hit by a car and killed. Another guy killed his wife in his sleep, but got off because he had a history of sleepwalking and night terrors, no history of violence, and because he had a good relationship with his wife. Others have tried the same defense and not gotten off, but been convicted of murder. Who knows if they were really innocent?

There are some chemicals that get released in our brain when we're sleeping that paralyze us (more or less), so that we don't try to act out our dreams. When we wake up those bio-chemical dissipate. I've noticed that when I'm starting to wake up my body feels kind of stiff, and I can remember my dreams pretty well, but then if I move, turn over or stretch, that causes the dream-state to go POOF! and dreams become harder to recall. I feel like that's related to those chemicals, as I feel the state-change in my brain as well as body. Here's a short article about it: (DM won't let me post links yet so....)

DOT futurity.org/top-stories/how-brain-paralyzes-muscles-while-you-sleep/

I don't have problems with sleep walking since I became a vegetarian when I was 22. I also adhere as near as possible to an organic vegan diet, which practically cures my life-long severe allergies. We live in an un-natural toxic soup, y'know. My point is that sleepwalking may be related to a biochemical imbalance in the brain, in which case it would be advisable to reduce all the toxins in your environment and diet.

I heard a doctor, I think it was Dr. Edell, say that a warm 20 minute bath regulates the human glandular system better than any medicine known. You might try a warm bath before bed. Also my doctor told me that eating simple carbs, like sweet things or bread, or maybe even fruit, can cause you to wake up in a few hours, and that it's better if you're hungry before bed to eat a protein food. If I get hungry before bed I drink some soymilk, maybe some nuts, and that does seem to help me sleep soundly, if I must eat. So you might try avoiding simple carbohydrates before bed.

It really is dangerous to sleepwalk. I have a friend who's a super nice guy, really together, not a drinker or on drugs. He jumped out a second story window in his sleep, and got very injured, spent months in the hospital. He got a bunch of therapy, to try to prevent it happening again, and then a few months later, he did it again! It really messed him up.

There are some articles on how to protect sleepwalkers, here's one:

DOT articlesbase.com/sleep-articles/7-ways-to-protect-a-sleepwalking-adult-from-injury-at-home-1687378.html

One idea is a motion detector that can alert your parents if you get up in the middle of the night.

Good luck, let us know what works for you.

[lml]

I personally dont find your story funny because your actions might end up hurting you or putting you into a dangerous situation. Hopefully locking the bedroom door will prove too difficult to open during your sleepwalking time. Also put a wedge in the door (yes on the inside) and kick it in very hard. You probably wont be able to remove it in your sleep.

If you are interested in an absolutely creepy story about a man who supposedly murdered his in-laws in his sleep then insisted he didnt remember it, read the Kenneth Parks case (I believe there is also a published book) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homicidal_ ... later_case

Dateline NBC has an online segment about a man who swears when he killed his girlfriend he was asleep at the time.

You might also find it interesting to read about homicidal sleepwalking ....http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homicidal_sleepwalking

here is a crime library article on automatism: sleepwalkersè defence http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/crim ... index.html

no i dont think you will murder anyone - i just find this stuff quite fascinating

[darkis]

I think I might know the answer. You sleepwalk but actually, you don't! I've been doing done tests and I've decided that you are totally unaware that you are doing it and look more like a zombie (awake yet unbelievably tired) than a sleep walker. You don't remember doing it at all and your brain thinks its funny and tries to shock/make you laugh by keeping your body there when you remember waking up. You are awake while you do this but don't remember until your sense turn on. Your brain likes to make you happy so it lets you do this so when you "wake up" you hopefully find it funny. You can stop it if you stop finding it funny. It's like a naughty boy. They only do it to make laughs. Just letting you know this might not be right because I'm not an expert.
This is just what Im guessing after a bit of research. I do hope it helps though.

[BrooksWindow]

I agree that its not funny also, I also have these sleeping problems that caused me crash my car I flew 37 feet thru the air into 2 trees almost killed myself
I shattered both feet and ankles, crushed 4 vertibrea in my spine I was found with my stick shift impaled into my back
I was in bad shape took me over a year to learn to walk again, Thank God I did not hit anything other then 2 trees
so please be safe and careful !!! my whole life has changed due to sleep disorders. taking a sleep study is easy compared to a life of regrets
good luck!!