Sleep-walking/Sleep-eating

[Evil_Admiral]

Hello everyone! It has been a way long time since I've wandered over to this corner of the internet, but I'm back!

Anywho, I moved in with my partner a few months ago and we found out something interesting: I sleep-walk. And I sleep-eat. I've had a sleep study and seen doctors, and I am in the process of being treated. In the meantime I am still sleep-walking and sleep-eating (and I know thanks to a security camera and my fitbit recording my movements during sleep). I wanted to see if anyone else around here has ever had these problems, and what you did to safe-guard things. In particular I would like to not eat while I sleep-walk, but oh well.

 

[Captain_Nick]

If that's true, it's pretty cool

My sister used to sleep walk when she was very young. Once she urinated in the bathtub - anothe rnight we found her in the closet

We didn't do anything about it, because it was pretty funny

 

[Lumi]

My Uncle was a sleepwalker. He would often walk right out the front door as a child before someone noticed he was gone. Scary stuff.

I've never walked or ate in my sleep. How do you even try to watch what you eat when you're not even awake!? Gah, I'd be so depressed...

I've been known to talk in my sleep now and then... but I have family members who scream and fight with nobody in their sleep. Creepy.

 

[Evil_Admiral]

I've never walked or ate in my sleep. How do you even try to watch what you eat when you're not even awake!? Gah, I'd be so depressed...

I usually go after wierd/not-healthy foods, like chips, coke zeroes, sweet things (like half a pack of Fig Newtons), and oddly enough Starbucks syrup.

I've done odd things while sleep walking. Once I brought one of our cats (unwillingly) to bed with us. Another time I played with my Legos and yelled at my partner to leave me alone!

 

[Captain_Nick]

This might sound like a dumb question ... how do you know this is happening?

 

[Nerys Ghemor]

He said he yelled at his partner, if you read the sentence right above your post. Obviously there is a witness.

 

[Evil_Admiral]

He said he yelled at his partner, if you read the sentence right above your post. Obviously there is a witness.

And there's a security camera in the apartment which has caught me several times.

 

[Deranged Nasat]

My Uncle was a sleepwalker. He would often walk right out the front door as a child before someone noticed he was gone. Scary stuff.

I've been known to talk in my sleep now and then... but I have family members who scream and fight with nobody in their sleep. Creepy.

My sister occasionally went sleepwalking when we were young. Once or twice our mother caught up to her fiddling with the keys to the door, trying to leave the house. Odd, in that she was too young to have access to house keys but her sleeping self knew both where to get them and the necessity of getting them.

I never sleepwalked, but until recently I apparently did what your family members do, Lumi. At least once a week, I'd cry out in my sleep or scream, though I never had any recollection of doing so, and I never woke. I did often respond to calls from others, apparently. Basically, I'd scream or cry out, someone would say "are you alright?", I'd say "yes" and then go quiet again.

 

[Deranged Nasat]

...half a pack of Fig Newtons.

Sleeping You is a man of taste, Evil_Admiral.

Except, it strikes me that you couldn't truly enjoy them if you were asleep and unaware you were eating them. The discovery the next day would be most upsetting - "the bastard! He's eaten half of them!"

 

[Holdfast]

I sleep-walk. And I sleep-eat.

This reminds me of that old joke about dreaming of eating marshmallows and waking up minus a pillow.

 

[Tora Ziyal]

The only times I sleep-walked were when I was taking a particular sleeping pill. The scariest incident was when I let the dog out in the middle of the night. Got up in the morning and found my back door slightly open and the dog in the back yard. Never took that med again.

 

[thestrangequark]

How wonderfully coincidental this thread is, as I've just discovered (and posted the other day in the Purchases thread), that I shop online in my sleep. Fortunately (but sadly not very interestingly), I seem to make very rational purchases, buying only things I actually need at good prices: new heads for my Sonicare toothbrush, for example. I even used coupon codes in a couple of cases!

 

[TorontoTrekker]

[ObSillyResponse]You could always have your bf tie you to the bed before you go to sleep...[/ObSillyResponse]

I don't know about the sleepwalking, but it seems to me that you might be eating in your sleep because you're not getting enough nourishment when you're awake. Maybe try a (healthy-ish) bedtime snack?

If you get rid of the cause of the late-night fridge raids, you might not sleepwalk either, since clearly you can't get to the fridge without walking there.

I'm no expert, so take that with a grain of salt (while you're awake ).

Also, is this a recent thing? I ask because I don't recall Eric ever mentioning that it was a problem when the two of you were roommates. I know that that was around the time that you started working out and losing weight, which is why I'm thinking that maybe you're just hungry. (Of course, there's no particular reason why Eric would have mentioned it, except that it's unusual. Or maybe you just never woke him up.)

 

[Venardhi]

In highschool I was a habitual sleep-everythinger. I made it through half a day of school once before I woke up in the middle of history class when the teacher called on me. Another time I woke up parked 30 miles from my house with a fast food bag in my lap. Several times on hot summer nights I would wake up out on the porch, etc. etc. etc. There were many conversations I was told about but don't remember, many meals eaten I never tasted, etc. etc.

It just went away after a while, but through most of senior year I had to hide my keys from my sleeping self to make sure I didn't drive.

 

[Evil_Admiral]

[ObSillyResponse]You could always have your bf tie you to the bed before you go to sleep...[/ObSillyResponse]

I don't know about the sleepwalking, but it seems to me that you might be eating in your sleep because you're not getting enough nourishment when you're awake. Maybe try a (healthy-ish) bedtime snack?

If you get rid of the cause of the late-night fridge raids, you might not sleepwalk either, since clearly you can't get to the fridge without walking there.

I'm no expert, so take that with a grain of salt (while you're awake ).

Also, is this a recent thing? I ask because I don't recall Eric ever mentioning that it was a problem when the two of you were roommates. I know that that was around the time that you started working out and losing weight, which is why I'm thinking that maybe you're just hungry. (Of course, there's no particular reason why Eric would have mentioned it, except that it's unusual. Or maybe you just never woke him up.)

If anything I've gotten a bit larger since my metabolism has slowed, but that may be the cause, even though I seem to hit the 2500 cal/day limit, which is normal.

Apparently my sleep walking and eating is related to a mood disorder of some type (in the depression/bi-polar family), so Eric may not have seen anything because it hadn't kicked in when he was living with me. These kinds of disorders show up in other ways when you're younger, and then you get the full mood changes in your mid to late 20's.

And good to see you Lance!

 

[T'Preea]

I don't really have a problem with sleep-walking, but I did wake up sleep-eating once. My friend in high school had a problem with sleep-walking really bad. She would always be trying to start a fire with a fork and some balled up newspaper in the middle of the floor. I think that's technically called sleep-pryo. *lol*