Strange things you have done in your sleep (did not wake you up)

[SoCalDem]

When I was a teenager, we did not have A/C, and my room was waaaaay hot.. I would prop up an old oscillating fan on the edge of an open drawer.. The front of the dresser would keep it from oscillating, so it would blow directly at me..

anyway.. one morning I woke up to see the fan upside down on the floor by the bed, going from side to side.. as I put my hand down to pick it up, I was instantly aware that I had STUCK MY HAND IN THE FAN, WHILE I WAS ASLEEP..

My hand was all purple and swollen, and I had gashes on two of my fingers.. There was also dried blood in my hair and on the pillow..

My mother took me to the doctor, and there were no broken bones, but the doctor could not believe that it did not wake me up :)

[maggrwaggr]

1. my stepdaughter falls out of bed without waking up.

One time she even got her head stuck under the bed and didn't wake up. Her mom freaked out.

[Kenneth ken]

2. more than once

I've had phone conversations with people who called me while I was asleep. After one with my Mom, I called her several days later, and had that weird feeling that I'd talked to her recently, but couldn't remember talking to her for a couple weeks.

Now I just turn the phone off when I'm sleeping.

[Nihil]

3. Allegedly ...

It appears that I swat flies in my sleep ...

Mrs.Nihil has informed me on a couple of occasions (grumpy mornings)
that I'd woken her up by switching the light on and hunting down a
mosquito in the bedroom - a real one that was eventually killed but
after a certain amount of staggering around the room, smacking the
wall or ceiling a few times. On one occasion the remnants of the
deceased were pointed out to me (along with a request to remove them
from the ceiling). Needless to say, I didn't recall a thing about
any such event when trying to focus on my morning fruit juice.

My defence is that it is more likely to be a dream on her part than
any coherent somnambulistic action on mine.

(I reckon she'd set up the above-mentioned corpse by throwing
something at the insect earlier in the evening, knowing that
I wouldn't notice while staggering into bed late at night.)

Nihil

[Guaranteed]

7. LOL

I feel the frustration ;)

[Kamika]

4. scratched the wall wih my nails

You could see the scratch marks after hehe

[progressiverealist]

5. peed in my sock drawer (I was six years old)

Woke up to the sound of my Mom cleaning out the drawer, laughing.

[LincolnMcGrath]

6. I tried to leak on moms lap as she sat on the couch.

We were "camping" out in the yard, and apparently I waltzed in, whipped it out in front of her and tried to get the flow going before my dad spun me around and allowed me to finish on the oval rug. I was 4 or five at the time.

[Booberdawg]

8. I must talk in my sleep

because I woke myself up a few times.

When my dad was visiting here earlier this year he was standing by the door answering me. He knew I was not making any sense.

[emad]

9. a horse trainer friend I once had claimed that his sleepwalking

was the reason he unknowingly signed a duff cheque to over-order on winter bedding for the stables

[MissMillie]

10. Punched myself in the eye

had a nasty shiner, and a cut where my ring had dug in.

[Nikia]

11. I talk in my sleep

The weird thing is that I say things that I would not normally say and don't always tell the truth.
A really weird thing that I did once though was masterbating my husband to orgasm while I was asleep. I found out about that after having a sore arm all day and commenting to him about it. He said that he thought it was a little odd, but let me do it.

[Dogmudgeon]

12. I have Sleep Paralysis

It's where you are in REM sleep and wake up, but you're paralyzed, because in REM sleep, the brainstem and basal ganglia "disconnect" you from your voluntary motor activity.

The evolutionary explanation is that it keeps higher mammals from "acting out" during dreams, so they won't hurt themselves. Of course, "they" are "us".

During Sleep Paralysis, you can also have extremely vivid, realistic hallucinations. Since 1990, when I first developed it, I have been in several car accidents and aircraft crashes, abducted by aliens, stabbed to death (usually by young women), woken up during surgery, been impaled a la a victim of Vlad Tepes, been shot, been buried in an avalanche, froze to death, etc., not to mention a myriad of other horrors idiosyncratic to me alone.

The interesting thing is that as frightening as the first ones were, I have come to the point where I recognize these things as sleep paralysis, and they do not freak me out any more. Just lucky, I guess.

--bkl

[Nikia]

13. I get that occaisionally

What is really horrible is that I have had nights that it has happened to me twice and I have been rather tired but am afraid to go back to sleep. I 've heard conflicting advice. One set of advice says that you are suppose to try to move and get out of hallucination at any cost. The other set says that you are suppose to do some deep breathing and relax to come out of it. What do you recommend? It only happens to me about once every two or three months but sometimes multiple times in the same night if it occurrs. I am still frightened by it. I had it a few times while I was a teenager, but it seems to occurr more frequently now.

[THUNDER HANDS]

14. the covers and sheets

On my bed get turned exactly 90-degrees. Happens EVERY night. I have no idea how I do it, but it's sure annoying as hell to wake up every morning with your feet dangling out the end of the covers.

[GinaMaria]

15. Fell from the top bunk

to the floor and never woke up. Scared the hell out of the baby sitter. According to her I didn't even wake up when she put me back in bed.