Isn't sleepwalking the strangest thing, I was reading an article about it the other day and there was a case of a 12 year old girl who got up in the middle of the night, got dressed and unlocking the door left her parents house. She walked across a road, through a small wooded area to her friends house and as soon as she knocked on her door she woke up! the surprised parents of her friend had to take her home!!

Anyone else know of any similar situations? I thought it was really spooky but interesting.

Yes, I have been known to wander around when I was younger I have grown out of it now though.

Recently I did wake up in the bath covered in rice crispies and a trail from the kitchen follwing me..........not sure if it was sleep walking or due to the alcoholic beverages I had consumed the night before?

Don't know. I'm usually asleep at the time.:thumbsup:

Don't see how this is specifically Sheffield related, so moved it.

Yes, I do sleepwalk occasionally. Once I woke up in my brother's bed, and I have no recollection of how I got there. (My brother wasn't home at the time, fortunately).

Nope, never walked in my sleep.

I don't sleepwalk now. however, when I was much younger, I used to sleepwalk a few times a month. On a few occasions I had woken up in the front garden, or sometimes in the basement, screaming as I had no idea how I got there.

I dont sleep walk, but this is kinda related.

Anyone else ever having a dream say the entire dream is leading upto an event which you would normally die at, but at that point its linked with something happening around you?

Okay an example is I sometimes dream that im at the top of a very high ladder and the ladder comes away from the wall and im falling down on the ladder, but at the point of impact I wake up right at the same time that my alarm goes off, or even at the exact time im woken up by someone.

Do you follow? im sure im not the only one.

"Sleepwalking... do you?" -> "Sleepwalking - Do you?". Thank god for that change! Cleared things up no end.

Do I sleep walk? Nope, although on a few occasions went walkies when I was small.

Thanks for the change t020, there were thousands of people in the yorkshire area freaking out about the subject title. Now they can all sleepwalk peacefully.

Whilst i'm on about sleep, has anybody ever had a dream thats either come true or they've experienced some kind of de-ja-vous the day after ( feel free to correct my spelling t020, no doubt you'll be more excited about the grammer than the subject ).

For anyone who can explain dreams - I have on many occasions had a dream that im travelling really fast in a train, so fast that i begin to float in the air! suddenly the train comes to an abrupt end and i fall to the floor, when i exit i find im at an old, deserted train station in the desert.
Can anyone with knowledge of dreams explain?

Originally posted by t020
"Sleepwalking... do you?" -> "Sleepwalking - Do you?". Thank god for that change! Cleared things up no end.
t020 if you hate the forum (and the actions of its moderators) so much why not try going to another one and leaving us in peace? I certainly wouldn't object. Either that, or get out more and stop worrying yourself over little things that don't actually affect you...

:mad:

Back on topic...

The only experience I've had of sleepwalking is when I was very drunk... so I'm not sure if that counts? All I remember is waking up in the morning and thinking I had dreamed about walking around - but in fact I actually had been.

as far as i know i dont sleep walk, but i know i do talk in my sleep... but not just the usual kind of mumblings, i can sit up, open my eyes and have a conversation with someone without waking up.!!! i often wonder what kind of information can be got out of me in my sleep.... eeeeeek!!!!!

Aah...drunken sleepwalking, now that's a whole new kettle of fish. In those circumstances I have been known to dance in my sleep. :D

When we were kids we had bunk beds. My older brother slept on the top and sleep walked one night. He almost walked off the end of the bed and out of the window which would have been particulary nasty as we lived in a 5th floor flat!!

My younger brother sleep walked on a regular basis. Not only did he walk, but he did bizarre things too! He would regularly kneel on the floor and play with 'invisible' lego! I remember him once coming into the living room and asking us if we knew if his ruler had legs!!

Needless to say, we still take the mick out of him about it to this day!!

My ex-hubby (horrid man) had a brother who used to sleepwalk he also used to pee in the wardrobe (whilst sleepwalking) I have heard this is a common thing with men

Not with this man it ain't....

And no, I don't sleepwalk.... Although having said that, if you're asleep when you're sleepwalking, how can you conciously "know" you're doing it?

Originally posted by Rich
Although having said that, if you're asleep when you're sleepwalking, how can you conciously "know" you're doing it?
You don't always. Sometimes you suddenly realise that you're actually walking in your sleep. Other times you don't know until someone tells you, or you wake up in someone elses bed.

Was going to start a new topic, but may as well use this one since it's here.

My sleepwalking has become more regular and more dangerous. This morning I woke up with a badly grazed foot and bruises all down my leg. I had no idea how I got them until my mum informed me that I had fallen down the stairs in my sleep.

Does anyone know what causes sleepwalking and if there's any way to stop it? The way I'm going I could break my neck... :(

Just an observation, it's almost exactly a year since my last post on this thread, maybe it's to do with the time of year.

I've never experienced sleepwalking, but my good friend's husband used to do it a lot. She once heard him downstairs rattling about, and discovered him in the kitchen weeing into a saucepan! :o

I used to when I was younger.

One night I was staying at a friends house (think I was about 12/13) and I got up in the middle of the night, walked into her parents bedroom and stood at the bottom of their bed staring at them. After a few minutes I walked out again and went straight back to bed!

Breakfast the next morning was very embarrasing - luckily they all found it amusing.

My husband has come to bed a few times and found me wandering round the room in my sleep or stood at the bedroom door.
And the other night he apparantly awoke to see me sat bolt upright in bed shouting about being lost in a nunnery.
Of course none of this could be true and he could be making it all up for a giggle, but I doubt it.
My dad occasionally sleepwalks and took a nasty tumble downstairs not so long ago. Is sleepwalking in the genes?

I can still remember vividly an occasion when I was around 9 or 10.
I had pushed my brother out of the bedroom window and in total trepidation, walked along the landing to tell my parents about it.
I woke up outside their bedroom door, realised that it was probably a dream and went back to our bedroom to see my brother still in bed!

It still makes us wonder what the reaction would have been if I hadn't woken and continued in to tell my parents my tale?:)

Originally posted by Sidla

Does anyone know what causes sleepwalking and if there's any way to stop it? The way I'm going I could break my neck... :(


Get a stairgate!

Apparently when I was little I sleepwalked into the lounge and announced to my family that I needed the pliers for my cat's whiskers :confused:

I have a very vivid memory of being taken to Sheffield on the bus with by my big sister, when I was about 6 ish.
It was there, in Pond Street, that I saw my first real dwarf.

I can still picture him now, leather jacket, afro hair, sunglasses, not much taller than me...

It must have had a very profound impact on me. I recall my big sister telling me that dwarves were people :rolleyes: blah blah...

I'd only ever seen or heard of them in cartoons.
So to little me they were fictional.

It gave me recurrent nightmares. One night I was disturbed from my sleep by my Mum halfway up the stairs in the middle of the night.
Having had the bad dream - where I was alone in my bedroom & the dwarf was crawling out from behind the bed - I'd panicked & ran to find the house empty & in darkness.

Double terror.

I think I sleep walk occasionally. My son heard a noise one night and the next morning 3 heavy glass jars of cream that I have on the side of the bath ( wide shelf with a lip ) were found on the floor. Also, the living room door is always kept closed and was found wide open one morning. I am a stickler for closing doors. There have been one or two incidents that haven't been my son so it must be me! It's frightening really.:gag:

Originally posted by honeyplanet
My ex-hubby (horrid man) had a brother who used to sleepwalk he also used to pee in the wardrobe (whilst sleepwalking) I have heard this is a common thing with men

This is common as I can testify with my estranged husband. Usually when he was '******' though.

It is also rumoured that if you jolt someone awake whilst they are sleepwalking it can seriously freak them out and even be fatal. . . . was just wondering if this is is true?

Supposedly you're meant to slowly guide them back to bed or waken them very gently.:confused: :confused:

Originally posted by Lestat
It is also rumoured that if you jolt someone awake whilst they are sleepwalking it can seriously freak them out and even be fatal. . . . was just wondering if this is is true?

Supposedly you're meant to slowly guide them back to bed or waken them very gently.:confused: :confused:

I was always told never to wake a sleepwalker, that to do so could give them a very bad fright.

My sister used to sleepwalk when she was young - generally she just wandered out of her room onto the landing and then woke up. On one occasion though she wandered into my room and stood by the door, mumbling at me. I was a bit freaked as I tried to talk to her, but she was just speaking gibberish. Then she just walked back to her own room - she didn't remember it the next day!

StarSparkle

Originally posted by StarSparkle
I was always told never to wake a sleepwalker, that to do so could give them a very bad fright.

My sister used to sleepwalk when she was young - generally she just wandered out of her room onto the landing and then woke up. On one occasion though she wandered into my room and stood by the door, mumbling at me. I was a bit freaked as I tried to talk to her, but she was just speaking gibberish. Then she just walked back to her own room - she didn't remember it the next day!

StarSparkle

But Starsparkle you're Scottish - How could you tell she was speaking gibberish?:thumbsup: :o

Originally posted by miniminch
But Starsparkle you're Scottish - How could you tell she was speaking gibberish?:thumbsup: :o

Perhaps it was my ears that were hearing gibberish rather than her speaking it, Mini! :P

I was still half asleep and somewhat dazed - and had just woken up to this rather ghostly figure in white standing by my door making noises of some kind at me. :D

It doesn't take much to rattle my senses!

StarSparkle :)

Well, I don't know if I'm sleepwalking or whether I have a ghost, but I'm starting to get concerned...... :help:

This has been going on for a few years now - just little things every now and then, but I'm not sure why they're happening!!!!

I live on my own, but I've come downstairs in the morning to find bananas in the middle of the floor, chocolates unwrapped :shocked: (and NOT eaten!!! That's definitely not me - If I got to the trouble of unwrapping a choccy, I will eat it!!!!) dishcloths folded very neatly at the back of the sink, (not screwed up and left on the side....) the car door unlocked....
It wouldn't be so bad if it was all useful things being done, not just downright weird!!!!

This morning I logged on to the Internet, went onto musicroom.co.uk and found an item in my shopping basket, which certainly wasn't there yesterday and not something I would buy anyway!!!! (if I've starting buying stuff on the Internet in my sleep, I'm really in trouble!!!!) When I took out my needlework, the needle was missing - I haven't found it yet, I just hope I don't find it the hard way!!!

BTW if there's any posts on here that folks take exception to, please remember, it may be my alter-ego posting, not me........:lol: :lol:

I've only done it once when I was 13. I was dreaming that my sister had told me it was time to get up for school and I went into the bathroom to get a shower. I woke up when the water hit me and was in such a state over it that my mum kept me off school the next day.

When I was a child I fell ill with a seriously high fever when staying with an aunt.

the bed I was in was against a wall, and one night apparently I stood up in bed and tried to walk through the wall. I was later told that many years before there had, in fact, been a door there. Whether I'd been told that by my aunt at some point I don't know but it was...interesting.

In my adult life I once tried answering the phone in my sleep. It hadn't rung - I just sat up in bed and tried to make a call. I no longer have a phone in the bedroom. :)

Well, I don't know if I'm sleepwalking or whether I have a ghost, but I'm starting to get concerned...... :help:

This has been going on for a few years now - just little things every now and then, but I'm not sure why they're happening!!!!

I live on my own, but I've come downstairs in the morning to find bananas in the middle of the floor, chocolates unwrapped :shocked: (and NOT eaten!!! That's definitely not me - If I got to the trouble of unwrapping a choccy, I will eat it!!!!) dishcloths folded very neatly at the back of the sink, (not screwed up and left on the side....) the car door unlocked....
It wouldn't be so bad if it was all useful things being done, not just downright weird!!!!

This morning I logged on to the Internet, went onto musicroom.co.uk and found an item in my shopping basket, which certainly wasn't there yesterday and not something I would buy anyway!!!! (if I've starting buying stuff on the Internet in my sleep, I'm really in trouble!!!!) When I took out my needlework, the needle was missing - I haven't found it yet, I just hope I don't find it the hard way!!!

BTW if there's any posts on here that folks take exception to, please remember, it may be my alter-ego posting, not me........:lol: :lol:

These are quite 'big events' it must take some energy to turn a computer on, the search for food is quite primal so understandable but unless it's just a simple press to log onto a particular site is quite worrying.

I used to not wake myself up properly when i went to the loo when i was a teen and my mum would quite often find me sitting on the toilet fast asleep. I had to train myself out of it when i went to university - in my first week in halls of residence, a mature student woke me up sitting on the toilet, door open with my knickers round my ankles. Then shared houses, living with someone meant i stopped. However since i've lived alone I've dropped back into it. Someone knocked on my door at 430 the other week and i was asleep on the toilet then! Woke up with a right start!

I also occasionally have very vivid dreams that I've done things that seem real but completely irrational. For example, I dreamt the other week (when my ex boyfriend came to stay) that I'd stabbed the bloke who lives next door with a blue pencil to death for stealing my car and climbing through my window . The only reason i knew i'd not done it was there was no body and i've not got a blue pencil! I had to wake my ex up to see i'd not gone and killed him! :hihi:

The last time I sleepwalked was when I was 4 or 5. Managed to get outta the house and run into the road. My memory is somewhat jaded, but it's still there. As a build up, I used to walk the corridor and fist the wall. Again, rather strange, suffice to say, I no longer have em' which is a good thing.

Additionally, these were accompanied by some rather viscious nightmares..... I'll tell you all about them sometime, but boy.... they were bad un's..... involving strings and machinery.

These are quite 'big events' it must take some energy to turn a computer on, the search for food is quite primal so understandable but unless it's just a simple press to log onto a particular site is quite worrying.

I used to not wake myself up properly when i went to the loo when i was a teen and my mum would quite often find me sitting on the toilet fast asleep. I had to train myself out of it when i went to university - in my first week in halls of residence, a mature student woke me up sitting on the toilet, door open with my knickers round my ankles. Then shared houses, living with someone meant i stopped. However since i've lived alone I've dropped back into it. Someone knocked on my door at 430 the other week and i was asleep on the toilet then! Woke up with a right start!

I also occasionally have very vivid dreams that I've done things that seem real but completely irrational. For example, I dreamt the other week (when my ex boyfriend came to stay) that I'd stabbed the bloke who lives next door with a blue pencil to death for stealing my car and climbing through my window . The only reason i knew i'd not done it was there was no body and i've not got a blue pencil! I had to wake my ex up to see i'd not gone and killed him! :hihi: I talk,shout, and sing in my sleep.When I was in hospital recently, I woke at 4.30 and saw someone had switched on my lamp,so I got up and went to the loo.In the morning one of the patients on the ward told me I"d been singing "Danny Boy!" I had no recollection of it at all. She told me, "You have a lovely voice tho!" I said perhaps they would like to put a request in for the next night!

i talk in my sleep alot, but only remember sleepwalking once, i was dreaming and for some reson i needed a bucket, i woke up on all fours under the bathroom sink, thinking why am i looking for a bucket:loopy:
yrs ago a friend took a clock apart whilst sleepwalking, thinking it was a bomb

I shared a bedroom with my sister for years and she has many tales to tell of my sleepwalking/sleeptalking. One night she found me rootling through the chest of drawers in our room and asked me what I was doing. Apparently I replied, "Looking for something neither of us has got." :confused: My parents also used to find me wandering all round the house and would just guide me back to bed.

Then one night my sister couldn't get to sleep coz I was chuntering on so much (in my sleep) so she yelled at me to shut up. That woke me up with such a start that I was screaming and hysterical and it took ages to calm me down. Proof perhaps that it's not a good idea to wake sleepwalkers/talkers too suddenly.

I've more or less grown out of it now but seem to have passed it on to my children...

Oh god, I have been known to sleepwalk, When I lived at my mums, I started running the bath in my sleep, and went back to bed. I flooded the bathroom, water went through the floor into the hallway downstairs, the wallpaper, carpets and my mums cabinet were all ruined. My stepdad got an electric shock when he went to turn the electric off. For weeks my mum made us have a bath in about 2 inches of water in fear that the bath would crash through the ceiling, because the bathroom floorboards were wet and squeeked for ages. She also took the plug off the bath, and i had to ask for it whenever i needed it :blush:

Has anyone had a LUCID dream? That"s when you are asleep but know you are dreaming. I"ve had a few. Once I dreamt I was in a house in a country place.I said to myself "I know I"m asleep and this is a dream,but I"m going to enjoy it.I"m going to go down the road to the little bridge and look at the view. That"s what I did,still fully aware that I was dreaming. The view was absolutely tremendous,and the colours were vibrant.It was brilliant. I once read of 2 men who did an experiment in Lucid Dreaming. They agreed to think of a meeting place before they went to sleep,then try to meet there in their dreams,and have a chat.Then when they met up later they would be able to tell one another what the conversation had been about.Can"t remember the outcome though...

I used to sleep walk quite a lot, woke up before with front door wide open and my feet filthy (bear in mind i sleep naked)with the dog sat by my side!
Don`t do it that often now,(thank god) only if i`m really stressed about something.

I never sleepwalk myself and only occassionally mumble in my sleep. I have a friend who when she first went to staywith her boyfriend's parents wnet sleep walking into their room naked! My boyfriend sleep talks a lot, a lot if it sounds like weird fairy tale stuff, some of it is just nonesense. He has also sung in his sleep - ok if your not bothered about sleeping yourself!

I have to be sedated during the night because apparently I sleepwalk so severely that I'm a 'danger' to myself and society if I'm left without sedation.

:hihi:

I have sleep-walked and sleep-talked from a very young age. I have very vivid and frightening dreams, and "fight" with whatever it is,in my dream, in my sleep.

I regularly used to scare the beejazuz out of my parents, who would have all doors closed, and everything unplugged/ switchced off, before they'd turn in for the night.

They'd get up in the morning, and find the doors wide open, and things like the tv or radio switched back on. They regularly thought they'd had burglars.

frequently, they'd find me curled up in a ball, fast asleep, under the radiator at the top of the stairs.

they'd play heck with me, like it was my fault. but how could I help it, if I was asleep?

wow....i thought i was the only one that had experiences like mine as a kid. I once had a dream where my parents had a fight and told me to get out of the house. so i did. we lived on a raf base at the time and i went knocking on loads of neighbours doors bbut no one answered (it was about 2am). anyway i found a flat that, when i checked the windows, were open and i climbed in thinking it was one near our place. i ended up scaring the crap out of the owners and finally i got home, with my dad and brother out looking for me and even the raf police. I can remember that time and all that happened so maybe i wasn't sleep walking.
the next time i dont remember all of it but the bits i do remember were that i was going all hysterical asking my brother where my mum was, they were out. then the next thing i remember is sitting on the couch with my mum, she must've arrived home at some point, and getting up and running to the sink saying i was going to be sick.
my mum said that when she got home i was all hysterical and she had a right job calming me down and then at one point i ran to the back door saying 'the fruits' were after my sister!
luckily no other incidents have occurred but i do talk in my sleep now days to my partner loads.
i've heard that it's when you over heat in bed that it happens and that if you pull the person, who's sleep talking, right big toe they'll tell you all their deepest dark secrets! i've not tried that one yet tho! lol

I used to sleepwalk alot when i was a child, once whilst my older brother was babysitting us (he fell asleep) i turned every light on in the house, wedged every door open with a cup then went back to bed. Mum and dad arrived home and thought we had been broken into:hihi: