Sleepwalking?

I woke up around 6am this morning to find that I have had another episode of sleep walking. It can be really scary to know that you have been up and moving around with out knowing what you were doing. So far DH and I have put the safety bar down on our balcony (we live 12 floors up), he's going to take all the knobs off our stove tonight, and we are going to twisty tie up the microwave. It's sad that I have to baby proof the apartment for myself.

Oh my gosh, that's so scary!
Make sure you always wear nice pjs to bed; you don't want to be found wandering around in your undies!

Originally Posted by pushylady

Oh my gosh, that's so scary!
Make sure you always wear nice pjs to bed; you don't want to be found wandering around in your undies!

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That would be part of the problem. I went to bed with pj's on and woke up with nothing. I found them through out are apartment. The last thing I want to do is wake up to a nice police officer shaking me while I am naked. I can only imagine that whatever explanation that I would have wouldn't work out well.

OMG, you have to do something about the front door to make sure you can't get through it! That freaks me out!!

Oh, hon, that's so hard.

I can empathise - it is so scary sometimes.

BF was in India for work for 1 week last August, and I got so stressed from it that I started a bout of sleepwalking (in general, mine are short but intense periods of activity followed by long periods with none).

I woke up twice, having fallen asleep with Bobby outside (he's a VERY naughty kitty sometimes) only to wake up with him in my bed. He knows how to manipulate the door knocker to get in - but frankly I wonder who else I'd have left in? After he came back it took a while to settle down - I caught myself (thank god) at 4 am trying to return missed phone calls, and a bunch of other stuff.

Once in college (in dorms) I picked the lock to a housemate's room, and moved some of her stuff around while she and her boyfriend were sleeping in there. Not cool.

Originally Posted by pushylady

OMG, you have to do something about the front door to make sure you can't get through it! That freaks me out!!

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Yeah, that doesn't always work - sleepwalking has it's own Zen-like patience and Spartan persistance to it.

Originally Posted by Satai

Yeah, that doesn't always work - sleepwalking has it's own Zen-like patience and Spartan persistance to it.

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You speak the truth. My scarest moment was when I was a kid I woke up in the bathroom with a bathtub filling with water. I had stuffed a rag down the drain. The funniest moment was when I had eaten a whole tub of chocolate truffles my Mom had made. She was so mad at me!

Originally Posted by lookingglass

You speak the truth. My scarest moment was when I was a kid I woke up in the bathroom with a bathtub filling with water. I had stuffed a rag down the drain. The funniest moment was when I had eaten a whole tub of chocolate truffles my Mom had made. She was so mad at me!

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I'll bet she was - housemate wasn't wild about me picking her lock either

My funniest moment was also post-India:

I got up to let the cats out but decided it was too early, so I fed them and played with them for half an hour, let them out and went back to bed. A little while later BF woke up, asked me if I'd let the cats out, and I explained what I'd done (in detail).

Later that evening, I asked BF what time he'd let the cats out - only to have him explain that I done it, what I'd done, and that I'd described the whole thing to him.

Forgot to say: Scratch has mail

that is scary! my mom told me I was sleep walking the other night when she opened the door to let the cool air in..of course she had me sit down and go back to sleep. I don't remember a thing. it's scary for sure, though.

My little brother used to sleep walk when he was little - like 3 or 4 years old.
One time we were staying with my Aunt & Uncle @ their house, and we found him in the kitchen, sitting in front of the fridge, eating butter out of the tub

He would also get out of bed and walk downstairs just CRYING so hard, yelling for mom and dad.... they would of course get him and he would wake up.

Ever since then, we had to have him sleep in my parents room with the doors locked - he eventually grew out of it about a year later. It was scary tho, I always felt SO bad for him

They say sleep walking can run in famlies. My grandmother used to sleep walk and so did my sister. When my sister was around 7 she got out of bed and we had this big fancy bowl that set on the dinning room table. She got up walked to the table set the bowl on the floor and used the bowl for a toilet!Pulled her jammies up and went back to bed.We never let her live this one down...

My 8 yr old sleepwalks from time to time.
Hes peed in the laudry basket a couple times. Woke up sleeping on the steps. Gotten up, got dressed and ready for school. His latest episode was about 3 weeks ago. It was around 2 in the morning an he came into my bedroom, woke me up and said "You weren't very behaved today so I'm going to have to take your TV away" And turned my TV off. Walked back into his room, shut the door and started singing twinkle twinkle little star
I couldn't help but laugh so hard I woke him up.. .He was SO mad at me for laughing at me!


I agree I think it's genetic.
My ex husband (my 8yr olds dad) once peed on his sister while sleep walking!

Originally Posted by DixieDarlin256

My 8 yr old sleepwalks from time to time.
Hes peed in the laudry basket a couple times. Woke up sleeping on the steps. Gotten up, got dressed and ready for school. His latest episode was about 3 weeks ago. It was around 2 in the morning an he came into my bedroom, woke me up and said "You weren't very behaved today so I'm going to have to take your TV away" And turned my TV off.

Walked back into his room, shut the door and started singing twinkle twinkle little star

I couldn't help but laugh so hard I woke him up.. .He was SO mad at me for laughing at me!

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Oh my, that is funny! Poor kid!!

Oh man that is scary! I sleep walked once when I was about 5 and, let's just say I mistook the top of the stairs for the toilet. Luckily my mom heard me moving around and stopped me before it was too late. A highly embarassing story but I was 5 so whatever.

My boyfrined has night terrors occationally and man the first time that happened I thought he was dying or something. Talk about scary!

Originally Posted by Jen

My boyfrined has night terrors occationally and man the first time that happened I thought he was dying or something. Talk about scary!

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I get them too, but mine aren't so bad. The one's BF gets, wakes me up everytime, and gets them like every night. They don't bother him too much though, he only gets them early in the night, like right after falling to sleep, and then he's fine.

It happened again last night! I woke up and had rearranged some of the stuff in our apartment. I've decided to make another doctor's appointment to see what I need to do.

Originally Posted by lookingglass

It happened again last night! I woke up and had rearranged some of the stuff in our apartment. I've decided to make another doctor's appointment to see what I need to do.

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Poor you - that's probably for the best.

I used to do little things when I was younger, get up and move the head band to the stove or something. The wierdest one was when I was 12 and I went out and had a lengthy conversation with my mom. My mom new something wasn't right because I wasn't making sense! I was talking about Clover (our cat) being all ready for the week with the cantelopes in the fridge. She then asked me if I was awake and I sort of remember that (like a dream!), because I remember thinking well duh, would I be standing here talking to you if I was asleep? I answered with a sarcastic yes. Other than that brief moment I don't remember any of that conversation.

I can barely sleep let alone sleep walk... but Hubby will tell stories about his brother who has sleep walked down the stairs to the bathroom, taken off the shower curtain by each individual ring, wrapped it around his body like a blanket and went to sleep in the tub!
My BIL is also a talker in his sleep.... and frequently asks for mud/concrete/drill guns/tape measures, and calls someone an ahole (most likely he's referring to my husband as they work side by side).