Have you interacted with a sleepwalker?

[Rogodin2]

I'm curious because I have both a brother and a new wife that sleepwalk (my brother sleepwalked since he was 3).

Rogo

 

[coldmeat]

I used to sleepwalk quite often until I moved, and then I just stopped.

My brother used to too.

 

[nageov3t]

I was a sleepwalker when I was a kid.

after we moved from a ranch house in oregon to a victorian in new jersey when I was like 11, I used to sleep walk from my bedroom on the third floor down to the rec room in the basement and I'd wake up on the couch. it went on for 2-3 years (not every night, but occasionally) until my parents finally let me have the basement as my bedroom in high school.

I think my parents didn't believe that I was sleep walking and thought I was just being passive-aggressive or something

 

[tasmanian]

Im the only person i know who sleep walks.

 

[Rogodin2]

Do you remember talking to another person in half-cogent dialog? That is what was most strange about my interactions. I could carry on a conversation and then watch them go back to bed.

My x-wife was the most conspicuous of all three.

Rogo

 

[GenHoth]

Did you marry the 18 year old?

http://forums.anandtech.com/me...=2122249&enterthread=y

 

[mobobuff]

I used to sleepwalk, I stopped around 7 years old I think.

I could have conversations, they usually never made sense. From what people told me, I usually just stared around, looking "through" people. Sometimes I would pee in the trash can, thinking it was the toilet.

 

[Cdubneeddeal]

Funny. My niece used to sleepwalk all the time when she was younger. Was weird is that she seemed to interact with the conversation that was on hand when she walked into a room sleepwalking.

 

[coldmeat]

Originally posted by: mobobuff
I used to sleepwalk, I stopped around 7 years old I think.

I could have conversations, they usually never made sense. From what people told me, I usually just stared around, looking "through" people. Sometimes I would pee in the trash can, thinking it was the toilet.

I used to try to talk to people too. I used to stand in my parents' room door staring at my mom until she would wake up and send me back to bed. And I remember my brother peeing in the trash can. It was funny.

 

[mobobuff]

Originally posted by: Cdubneeddeal
Funny. My niece used to sleepwalk all the time when she was younger. Was weird is that she seemed to interact with the conversation that was on hand when she walked into a room sleepwalking.

You can do it with sleeptalkers too. Auditory input can still make its way through, like dreaming about your alarm clock when it starts going off, and trying to shut it off in the dream, and getting really pissed when you can't.

With my ex-fiance, she would display tell-tale signs when she was dreaming, so I would always try having basic conversations with her. Hilarious, some of the stuff I got her to say.

 

[Rogodin2]

could have conversations, they usually never made sense

With my brother he would 'ramble'. My x wife, she could carry on a conversation. I thought I wouldn't have to deal with this very unsettling characteristic but it seems I've chosen the greater of two evils.

Rogo

 

[mobobuff]

Originally posted by: Rogodin2

could have conversations, they usually never made sense

With my brother he would 'ramble'. My x wife, she could carry on a conversation. I thought I wouldn't have to deal with this very unsettling characteristic but it seems I've chosen the greater of two evils.

Rogo

An interesting and brief article.

Still, more disconcerting than the occasional nocturnal stroll is the potential peril caused by sleepwalking. "Sleepwalkers can harm themselves and others, and even kill themselves and others, and they can engage in highly complex behaviors such as driving long distances, and hurt others with sleep aggression and violence," Schenck says. "So there are a number of ways that sleepwalkers can be dangerous to themselves and others during their episodes." For example, he notes, Sandy, a slender female in her teens, tore her bedroom door off the hinges one night. She was unable to replicate that strength when awake. And a young man frantically drove to his parent's house 10 miles away. He woke to the sound of his own fists beating on their front door. In dramatic cases like these, doctors will prescribe benzodiazepines to ease a patient's nighttime activity.

 

[xSkyDrAx]

Originally posted by: mobobuff

Originally posted by: Rogodin2

could have conversations, they usually never made sense

With my brother he would 'ramble'. My x wife, she could carry on a conversation. I thought I wouldn't have to deal with this very unsettling characteristic but it seems I've chosen the greater of two evils.

Rogo

An interesting and brief article.

Still, more disconcerting than the occasional nocturnal stroll is the potential peril caused by sleepwalking. "Sleepwalkers can harm themselves and others, and even kill themselves and others, and they can engage in highly complex behaviors such as driving long distances, and hurt others with sleep aggression and violence," Schenck says. "So there are a number of ways that sleepwalkers can be dangerous to themselves and others during their episodes." For example, he notes, Sandy, a slender female in her teens, tore her bedroom door off the hinges one night. She was unable to replicate that strength when awake. And a young man frantically drove to his parent's house 10 miles away. He woke to the sound of his own fists beating on their front door. In dramatic cases like these, doctors will prescribe benzodiazepines to ease a patient's nighttime activity.

that super strength thing is a bit scary :Q

 

[Rogodin2]

that super strength thing is a bit scary

That strength is scary since it's not being consciously controlled.

Rogo

 

[The Boston Dangler]

my friend eats in his sleep. sometimes he cooks and makes a big mess and goes to bed without eating a bite. we're waiting for him to burn the house down.

 

[ATLien247]

My daughter sleepwalks quite frequently. I should be used to it by now, but it still freaks me out. My wife works nights, and I'm a heavy sleeper, so I worry about my daughter hurting herself during her sleepwalks. We put chain locks on all of the doors leading outside just in case. Whenever I've tried to converse with her, it never makes any sense. It's like she's in her own little dream world.

 

[Rogodin2]

My daughter sleepwalks quite frequently. I should be used to it by now, but it still freaks me out. My wife works nights, and I'm a heavy sleeper, so I worry about my daughter hurting herself during her sleepwalks. We put chain locks on all of the doors leading outside just in case. Whenever I've tried to converse with her, it never makes any sense. It's like she's in her own little dream world.

Imagine that it was your wife and when you talked to her she was able to converse in a nearly normal way. I would ask her if she was awake or asleep and she would not answer the question. She would be sitting up in bed as I talked to her but after asking if she was a asleep or awake she would lay back down and continue to sleep. It was the strangest thing I've ever seen and it didn't happen often (4 or 5 times during our marriage).

It did scare me.

Rogo