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I woke up this morning with one fingernail filed clear down to the nub, and as I was spraying my sore finger with Bactine I had a hazy recollection of walking to the bathroom and getting a fingernail file and filing a fingernail down. I guess I am now a sleepwalker, and not only that but a sleepwalker who does strange things. I hope I dont shave my head some night.
Anyone else sleepwalk? I did a couple of other times, but that was many years ago, and all I did during both of those episodes was to look for the bedroom doorknob at the wrong height on the door.
siligut
(12,272 posts)Some of the prescription sleep med can cause sleepwalking. To answer your question, I did sleepwalk as a child. I went outside a couple of times too. I was never hurt though and I never shaved my head.
frogmarch
(12,158 posts)anything like that. As I drifted off to sleep I was thinking about how I needed to trim my nails because they were getting too long for me to play my cello. Now my finger is too sore for me to play my cello. Can't win, I guess. lol
Wait Wut
(8,492 posts)When I was little, my parents used to tell my sister and me to lock our bedroom door at nite. One nite, we forgot. My brother came in our room and tried to strangle me. Then he stood in the middle of the room and laughed this horrible, evil laugh. I was 4, he was 12. When he found out what had happened, he cried. He was almost obsessively protective of me. That's the year he bought me the Cubs hat and jacket for my birthday.
My ex punched me in the face while sleep walking. I punched him back. It ended up being pretty hilarious. He woke up in tears because I hit him. One nite, he woke me up yelling at and shaking me. He told me to be careful and that they were coming closer. He thought there were swords coming down from the ceiling at that we were going to die. I shoved him off of me and he got out of bed and said, "Fine, if you want to die go ahead." and then walked outside in his underwear in the middle of (a Chicago) winter. He woke up right after that!
frogmarch
(12,158 posts)terrifying it must have been when your sleeping brother tried to strangle you! I can see why he was so upset when he learned what he'd done. Scary!
Your ex had a doozy of an episode, didn't he? Sorry he punched you, but the rest of it is hilarious!
harmonicon
(12,008 posts)I would think she was talking to me, and respond. This was the best exchange:
(she mumbles something)
me: what honey?
her: don't talk to me, you're evil.
me: I'm evil? No I'm not.
her: Yes you are, you're Lex Luther.
me: No I'm not.
her: I know, but you play him on Smallville
I also had a girlfriend who punched me in the face while we were both asleep. That was a nice one.
frogmarch
(12,158 posts)It sounds as if your sleep-talking girlfriend incorporated you in her dream. How convenient for her that you were there to play the part of Lex Luther. At least she didn't punch you like the other girl did.
zabet
(6,793 posts)but only when I am going through some times of extreme stress. I have woken up in my car with it running, backed out of the carport and turned around to go out of the drive, have woken up sitting at the kitchen table with the phone in my hand in the pitch dark.....weird things.
frogmarch
(12,158 posts)ever try to drive somewhere past your driveway in your sleep.
My college-age granddaughter sometimes texts herself when she's sleeping, and I won't be surprised if she sleepwalks someday.
Have you ever phoned anyone in your sleep? I wonder what you'd say to them when they answered.
rurallib
(62,444 posts)We were worried when she was pregnant that there may be an incident, but nothing happened.
I have lots of stories also. Never got in the car but....
When my wife nearly died and I had 2 baby girls on my hands, I was stressed. Wife was in intensive care, kids with Grandma for some of the time.
I went to bed every night @10 and who knows where I would wake up? One night in the tub (no water) one night in the basement, one night outside, one night in the attic, one night on the stairs, one night on the porch, one night in the kitchen. One night the neighbor kid said he saw me bend a street sign @4AM. I can't verify, but the sign was bent.
But I never missed work and visited my wife nightly. And the only memory I have is where I woke up, not how I got there. I started every night in bed.
Many years later I was helping with a computer upgrade from home overnight, when the younger daughter came downstairs @2AM. We talked for about 15 minutes before I realized she was totally asleep.
frogmarch
(12,158 posts)recovered completely. What an agonizing time it must have for you when she was in the hospital, fighting for her life. If stress can cause someone to sleepwalk, it's no wonder you did. And you really got around while doing it, didn't you? Wow!
Your two daughters are sleepwalkers too, which makes me think the tendency might run in families. I'm glad your pregnant daughter didn't have any strange sleepwalking incidents!
RiffRandell
(5,909 posts)I'm quite surprised.
frogmarch
(12,158 posts)my third time (that I know of) that I have. Maybe you never will. I hope you don't but that if you do someday, you don't so anything weird, like file a fingernail down to the quick. ouchie.
RiffRandell
(5,909 posts)But it's never had any bad effects on me, like sleep-driving/eating. The shitty thing is I went off it for awhile after being on it for 6 years, went back on it a month ago and I can get to sleep, but not stay asleep. That never happened before when I was on it, but I don't want to switch to the CR version as it's very expensive. Strange.
Sorry about your incident. Ouch!
frogmarch
(12,158 posts)that's keeping you from staying asleep. Or maybe something in Ambien is different now. Anyway, glad you're not sleepwalking, and that you actually wake up instead of dreaming you're awake and then start doing weird things!
My finger is much better today. I'm relieved that I didn't shave my head last night. Or pluck out my eyelashes. (Oh no, I've planted ideas in my head. lol)
Swede
(33,282 posts)Five days a week.
frogmarch
(12,158 posts)feel like that too. Not fun.
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,846 posts)frogmarch
(12,158 posts)you'd like to share?
dana_b
(11,546 posts)I did as a kid when my mom and my step dad got married. i remember waking up in different places from where I went to sleep and other people said that I went into their rooms and told them to clean up or to shut up.
frogmarch
(12,158 posts)that, even though I don't know what you really look like. Your appearing in people's rooms and giving them orders would be what my family and I would call a walk-on or cameo. I suppose the life change when your mom and step dad married could have caused your sleepwalking.
dana_b
(11,546 posts)and I like that term - cameo. Yeah - I wasn't too fond of my step dad at that time although things eventually got better.
nickinSTL
(4,833 posts)but did as a kid, and a couple times in college, I guess.
Funniest episode was once, when we were on vacation in a hotel, adjoining rooms, I apparently got up, walked into my parents' room, ran face-first into the wall, turned around, said "Hi, Mom.", then went back to bed.
In college, I had more episodes of talking in my sleep than walking, only walked once that I know of. However, my freshman roommate came in late a number of times and said we had a perfectly coherent conversation...that I totally didn't remember the next day. Apparently, I can hold a conversation in my sleep, which I've always found kind of weird.
frogmarch
(12,158 posts)Now, that is weird...being able to converse in your sleep. I wake myself up mumbling sometimes, but I don't think I could hold a conversation with anyone. You are gifted!
nickinSTL
(4,833 posts)Didn't even remember it the next day. If my mom hadn't told me about it, I would have had no idea.
My roommate insisted several times I must have been awake, since we had perfectly normal conversations. However, I never woke up, never remembered it the next day.
jeffdix
(1 post)Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)Apparently I left both toilet seats up (which I never do because the dog drinks out of the toilet otherwise). My wife went into the bathroom later and fell straight in, which resulted in my rude awakening. Let me tell you, being woke up out of a dead sleep to a pissed off woman yelling and beating on you is no fun whatsoever. At first I claimed innocence, but my wife said she saw me go into the bathroom and spend several minutes in there right before she took the plunge. I don't remember any of it.
frogmarch
(12,158 posts)werent hurt. Ive taken the plunge lots of times in my 46+ years of marriage to the King of Toilet Seat Leaver Uppers, so Im used to it. I guess you dont forget to lower the seat very often. If you were a habitual offender, she probably would have shrugged it off, as I do. Do you live in fear that you might leave it up again in your sleep?
Tunkamerica
(4,444 posts)ended up in a friends sister's bedroom once trying to sell her imaginary drugs and in just my boxers in a hotel elevator the second time.
frogmarch
(12,158 posts)youd never do either of those things while awake, and thats how everyone knew you were sleeping. Right?
Tunkamerica
(4,444 posts)RZM
(8,556 posts)Apparently I got up in the middle of the night and urinated in the trash can. Then I went back to bed. I sort of vaguely recall it but not really. My SO thought it was quite funny.
frogmarch
(12,158 posts)in the trash can!