Sleepwalking this very moment!
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Sleepwalking can be a scary thing. My brother used to have bouts of sleepwalking. Like he'd wake up fully dressed in his car with it running. It got to the point where I was just about having to tie an arm to a bedpost before he'd go to sleep.
Myself, I'm a sleeptalker.
Myself, I'm a sleeptalker.
Send her to my place. My bathroom and kitchen could use a good cleaning.
As am I, supposedly, though nobody has ever been able to figure out what language I'm speaking. I've only studied two other than English (French and German), and they're fairly recognizable even though my parents speak neither. One would think that they would at least guess if I was speaking one of them. Also, my ex-husband also spoke both, and he said he couldn't figure out what I was saying, either.
I remember, several years ago, I was at a party when a friend dozed off in a chair. At one point, he got up, went to the bathroom to get himself a Coke (the beverages were on ice in the bathtub), came back to the living room, sat down, tried to open the Coke, realized he was holding it upside down, turned it over, opened it, took a sip and started arguing with someone else.
I turned to another person in the room and said, "WTF?" He responded, "He does this all the time. You've never seen it before?"
This was me in highschool. I was sleeping very little, up late every night, drinking TONS of caffeinated soda. I woke up quite regularly in the middle of breakfast, in my car on the way to school. Once I even woke up in 2nd period and had taken a test and done some homework that morning with no memory of it. Happened once in PE too, but after I 'woke up' I remembered the last couple hours (I had fallen asleep in history 2 hours earlier.) in kind of a dreamlike haze. So maybe it was more like a blackout, but every instance was triggered by sleep at the very least.
Thanks everyone for your tips and stories. My mother wouldn't believe me at first when I told her today -- she thought I was teasing her, and I had to show her this thread to prove it!
I'm not too worried, except that there's usually no one here to keep an eye on her.
I myself have done some strange things in my sleep. Unfortunately nothing so productive as cleaning the bathroom, though. Bummer!
I'm not too worried, except that there's usually no one here to keep an eye on her.
I myself have done some strange things in my sleep. Unfortunately nothing so productive as cleaning the bathroom, though. Bummer!
Yep, do that as well (and am apparently understandable).
I just hope I don't say anything too untoward while I'm sleeping
John Clark said:Yep, do that as well (and am apparently understandable).
I just hope I don't say anything too untoward while I'm sleeping
One day you'll be woken up abruptly in the early hours by your partner, and sternly interrogated, "Who the hell is Laura?"
I'd hopefully have enough presence of mind to just tell her "I was just checking to see if you were paying attention"
You really missed your chance for brownie points, what you should have said is:
"Hi Mom, last night my sister and I cleaned the bathroom for you."
My cousin, when I used to live at home, was one hell of a scary sleepwalker. She nearly fell down the stairs on several occasions. She would even use the toilet and/or shower in her sleep. And what's scarier, she'd start conversations, too.
When my best friend and I went to Chicago in November 2007 for a Supernatural convention, she became a bit concerned over whether or not she spoke in her sleep (we were sharing a hotel room), because apparently that's something she does and she's embarrassed by it. I don't recall her doing it.
When my best friend and I went to Chicago in November 2007 for a Supernatural convention, she became a bit concerned over whether or not she spoke in her sleep (we were sharing a hotel room), because apparently that's something she does and she's embarrassed by it. I don't recall her doing it.
uh, does all this sleepwaking activity happen while their eyes are still closed? its so weird. 
I think I may have actually sleepwalked (and talked) just the night before last, which is a first.
I know I've held conversations while in bed with no memory of them, as there's been times when my mother's woken me up (or thought she did) only to come back 15-20 minutes later mad at me for still being in bed because sleeptalking me gave her the impression that I was wide awake. I also had an apparently hilarious conversation with my best friends at a sleepover when I was 14. I fell asleep during a movie and they tried to get a confession out of me that I really did like a guy in our class that had been relentlessly pursuing me all year. It didn't work so well, lol. I protested quite fervently that I most certainly did NOT like him!
I've never had an experience where I was actually up and about doing something until two days ago, though.
Last night (while very much awake), my phone beeped to let me know that it needed to be charged, and I asked my mother if she still had the charger in her room. She was absolutely perplexed as to why I was asking for it since I apparently went into her room the night before to ask for that very thing. She says she placed it in my hand and I went on my way. I have no memory of this. And I can't find the blasted charger now!
I know I've held conversations while in bed with no memory of them, as there's been times when my mother's woken me up (or thought she did) only to come back 15-20 minutes later mad at me for still being in bed because sleeptalking me gave her the impression that I was wide awake. I also had an apparently hilarious conversation with my best friends at a sleepover when I was 14. I fell asleep during a movie and they tried to get a confession out of me that I really did like a guy in our class that had been relentlessly pursuing me all year. It didn't work so well, lol. I protested quite fervently that I most certainly did NOT like him!
I've never had an experience where I was actually up and about doing something until two days ago, though.
Last night (while very much awake), my phone beeped to let me know that it needed to be charged, and I asked my mother if she still had the charger in her room. She was absolutely perplexed as to why I was asking for it since I apparently went into her room the night before to ask for that very thing. She says she placed it in my hand and I went on my way. I have no memory of this. And I can't find the blasted charger now!
I've only sleepwalked (sleptwalked?) once as far as I know. A few years I got MAJORLY drunk on a night out, and went straight to bed when I got home.
I woke up a couple of hours later needed to dispose of all that liquid inside me, did the job, but after I finished I must have gone straight back to sleep stood up, and sleepwalked into my sisters bedroom for some reason.
She heard me walking in and shouted at me to wake up. Wow, the scariest thing that's ever happened to me. Completely freaked me out, I didn't know where the hell I was or what on earth was going on
I woke up a couple of hours later needed to dispose of all that liquid inside me, did the job, but after I finished I must have gone straight back to sleep stood up, and sleepwalked into my sisters bedroom for some reason.
She heard me walking in and shouted at me to wake up. Wow, the scariest thing that's ever happened to me. Completely freaked me out, I didn't know where the hell I was or what on earth was going on
I'm another that sleeptalks but has never sleepwalked.
I do, very rarely, fall asleep with my eyes open. The first time it happened I was at a summer camp and staying up with some friends, talking all night long. I remember talking, feeling really tired, and then ... blinking. And something looked different. My friends told me I had been sitting up against the wall and it looked like I was just daydreaming, but awake. It kinda freaked them out.
I don't know how it works really. I think it happens when I'm extremely tired sometimes.
I do, very rarely, fall asleep with my eyes open. The first time it happened I was at a summer camp and staying up with some friends, talking all night long. I remember talking, feeling really tired, and then ... blinking. And something looked different. My friends told me I had been sitting up against the wall and it looked like I was just daydreaming, but awake. It kinda freaked them out.
I don't know how it works really. I think it happens when I'm extremely tired sometimes.
Yeah I've heard my brother sleep talk before and most of what he says isn't in English (or any other language).
I remember once years ago it was late (maybe midnight) and I was watching TV in the living room. He came walking in, talking gibberish. I realized he was sleep walking and sleep talking, so I told him to go back to bed and he did. He doesn't sleep walk anymore, but I do occasionally hear him talk in his sleep.
I do still sleeptalk, though I haven't sleepwalked (as far as I am aware) in years. When I was a young kid, my family and I was watching the Lost in Space movie. I fell asleep in the middle of the movie and walked to my room. I apparently stopped in my doorway and just stood there. My dad eventually got up to try and carry me in, but I guess I fought him on that and ended up walking back to the couch where I slept for the rest of the night.
I have been told that I sleep talk fairly frequently, and specifically, I'm told that I curse and say "Jesus Christ!" a lot.
I have been told that I sleep talk fairly frequently, and specifically, I'm told that I curse and say "Jesus Christ!" a lot.
There's an idea that everybody has their own inner language, which they translate into a learned language to communicate with others; this is somewhat supported by the private languages sometimes employed by identical twins. I wonder if that's what we're hearing when sleeptalkers seem to speak "gibberish."
I've never heard that before. It certainly is a cool theory.
Stanley Schmidt wrote about it in one of his editorials in Analog a while ago; he claims that he is in touch with his inner language. I did a little Googling, but I couldn't find anything, so maybe it's just his idea; or maybe I just used the wrong search terms. It is definitely a cool theory, though. 
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