Do you walk in your sleep?

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And what does it mean if you do? On the weekend I awoke to find myself trying to unlock the front door and get outside. It was one of the most frightening things ever. Where was I going? What was I going to do when I got there?

― rainy, Monday, 12 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Eep! That would definitely scare me! Ack!

To my knowledge I don't. But I gather I speak in my sleep. Hm.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 12 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The restraints and the guards do their job, so I wouldn't know really.

― Kim, Monday, 12 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Best watch yourself, rainy - you might turn into something out of The Rats In The Walls by HP Lovecraft...

I don't walk in my sleep - I wank.

― Kodanshi, Monday, 12 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I only seem to sleep in my sleep. Is this normal?

― Graham, Monday, 12 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

They would know it was the rats and not me: how could they suspect somebody wearing pink and white checked pajamas of such monsterousness?

― rainy, Monday, 12 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oftentimes at 3 or 4 in the a.m. I find I have run downstairs expecting there to be a big Christmas tree, all lit up and surrounded by gifts. This is weird, I don't like Christmas that much.

I don't do this as much now that I live in a one-story house. Rainy, when I got your letter, everyone at my house said "that is YOUR handwriting on the envelope."

― 1 1 2 3 5, Monday, 12 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

maybe we're brothers, I don't like Christmas much either.

― rainy, Monday, 12 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

one summer i was staying at home with my parents, it was late january, and at about ten o'clock i sleepwalked into the lounge and wished my parents a merry christmas. i was convinced it was christmas morning. (what is it about that Xmas thing, huh?).

my parents thought i was on drugs.

― di, Monday, 12 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i fart in my sleep a lot...well actually i fart a lot...

― Geoff, Monday, 12 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i as well speak. ALOT . like narratives in complete sentences often scatologocial or sexual.

― anthony, Monday, 12 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i was talking with a friend about erotic dreams once, and she said she finds it frustrating that when she gets really close to orgasm in a dream she wakes up, and that she'd never met a woman who did climax in her sleep, until i informed her that that happens to me about once a month.

i'm determined to prove that i am not the only woman this happens to. i am not a freaK! (am i?)

― di, Monday, 12 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

or maybe thats a little too off-topic

― di, Monday, 12 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I've done that a couple of times too.

― Madchen, Tuesday, 13 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

My little sister can hold whole conversations in her sleep. She will tell me where she is and what she is doing (say, my aunt's house, watching telly) which often doesn't tally with where she is (at home sleeping in her bed) and I can keep her going for ages before she comes to.

I don't talk in my sleep, or walk, or anything like that. I just sleep, but very lightly due to lorries passing my window at all hours.

― suzy, Tuesday, 13 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

This is slightly off topic, but when I'm asleep I sometimes get a really profound sense that I'm falling, really quickly. You know that feeling in your stomach when you jump off a high diving board or something? Its really shocking and frightening.

― Will, Tuesday, 13 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

How can a lady tell if she's come in her sleep? It can't be as obvious as when a chap does it.

p.s. I've never had a wet dream. Am I missing out?

― Mark C, Tuesday, 13 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Will, I get that too!! And I have to make sure I'm still lying flat on my bed! It's pretty scary. Not sleeping is the most horrible thing ever. It's so frustrating and can so easily reduce me to tears. My dad tells me I walked in my sleep once, apparently I was after biscuits. He offered me an apple, I said, okay and then went back to sleep agane ho hum THE TEDIUM OF MY HEAD.

― Sarah, Tuesday, 13 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Will, SArah: is the falling feeling *just* as you're dropping off to sleep? I get this too, and it usually coincides with a kind of half- dream in which I step off something, like a kerb or miss a stair. Quite often as you fall asleep you get a kind of universal muscle spasm, and I think this is what causes the falling feeling.

I've known people who sleep walk safely and normally, but it can be associated with bad mental states, like a friend of mine who was really fucked up and had both scary sleepwalking episodes (outside) and sort of mini fugue states where she says she lost several hours at a time.

My sister used to talk in her sleep, usually about food, and now claims to 'sleep eat' (ie waking up surrounded by crumbs wondering where a whole packet of chocolate digestives went). No-one believes her. My boyfriend laughs in his sleep, which is almost cheesily sweet.

― Ellie, Tuesday, 13 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ellie: Spot on! Well, usually it takes place at the 'drifting off' part of the sleep cycle. But sometimes it's in deep sleep/REM sleep. It even wakes me up - then I think 'what the bloody hell...?'

― Will, Tuesday, 13 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

cue discourse (yet again) on HYPNOGOGIC SLEEP PARALYSIS hurrah. falling/paralysis/dreams w.open-eye content and lurking nastiness = v.common. I get em w.variants abt once a month. Catalyst for me as a student = nescafe coffee granules.

I have never sleepwalked. Rainy you are in the middle of exams/assessments = stressful for some. Yr unconscious mind is saying: "On w.yr check pyjamas and let's hightail it outta here!!"

― mark s, Tuesday, 13 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I've done the tripping off the kerb thing too, and I've said some odd things, but can't remember them now (Ally might be able to embarrass me with them though).

Mark C: believe me, you know.

― Madchen, Tuesday, 13 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

hey mark c, you usually wake up afterwards feeling pretty damn gooood.

― di, Tuesday, 13 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I used to do a lot of sleepwalking when I was a young girl. One night I walked down two flights of stairs to the basement to look for my eraser I looked in my tunic pocket, didn't find it and went back to bed. Gale

― Gale Deslongchamps, Wednesday, 14 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

one year passes...

I've heard that talking/walking in your sleep doesn't have anything to do with dreaming. Is this true?

― man, Sunday, 9 March 2003 22:52 (twenty-three years ago)

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