Sleepwalking? (1 Viewer)

[crackattack]

Is it possible to start to sleepwalking at an older age? I have never had any issue with this before, but 2 out of my last 4 nights I have woke up somewhere other then where I fell asleep. Last night I fall asleep on the couch, wake up in the bathroom, on the floor, with the door closed, pitch dark. After I woke up, I was in a little panic, didn't know where I was, couldnt see, very scary.

 

[Balance]

I've started again lately myself.

Lots of great stories from my youth - waking up in my nextdoor neighbors living room, clearing out the top shelf of kitchen cupboards and climbing in (i slept on the top of a bunkbed), etc. Was very scary as a kid waking up like this.

As an adult it seems a little more tame. Wife got me other night standing with my face in the corner stuffing chips into my mouth but not eating them... crunching and spitting out. I've done this "stand in the corner" routine for a couple years now. I don't remember these at all, wife puts me back in bed and I wake up oblivious while she is laughing her ### off.

 

[MikeIke]

My sleepwalking incidents have always followed copius amounts of . One time I was urinating in the bathroom wastebasket. The wife was not amused...

 

[raisydaisy]

I used to sleep run as a kid, my parents said it would always happen right before I was sick.

 

[crackattack]

My sleepwalking incidents have always followed copius amounts of . One time I was urinating in the bathroom wastebasket. The wife was not amused...

I had a few beers, but not copius amounts.

 

[AAABatteries]

My sleepwalking incidents have always followed copius amounts of . One time I was urinating in the bathroom wastebasket. The wife was not amused...

My two boys just recently started sharing a room - the oldest just came downstairs and said his brother had gotten up, walked in his closet and peed in the dresser we have in their. I was like WTF?? He said he thinks he was sleepwalking as he came straight back and got in bed and wouldn't talk. Sure enough, I go up there and he's pissed all in the bottom dresser drawer full of clothes and the middle drawer had piss running down the front. It's like he opened the bottom drawer like he was lifting the toilet seat.

 

[Ned]

My sleepwalking incidents have always followed copius amounts of . One time I was urinating in the bathroom wastebasket. The wife was not amused...

My two boys just recently started sharing a room - the oldest just came downstairs and said his brother had gotten up, walked in his closet and peed in the dresser we have in their. I was like WTF?? He said he thinks he was sleepwalking as he came straight back and got in bed and wouldn't talk. Sure enough, I go up there and he's pissed all in the bottom dresser drawer full of clothes and the middle drawer had piss running down the front. It's like he opened the bottom drawer like he was lifting the toilet seat.

Ugh god that sucks, but at the visual.

My oldest son (8) will sleep walk on rare occassion. Nothing as crazy as these stories, but we've woken up to him pacing around our bed or standing there silently next to my wife while she's sleeping. Pretty fn creepy to wake up to that. One night I went in to check on him and he pops straight up in bed and starts mumbling like he was speaking in tongues. That went on for about a minute, then he just plopped back down on his pillow like nothing happened.

Sleep walking is bizarre stuff.

 

[Ned]

So our 8yr old son took sleep walking to the next level...We were away for the weekend staying in a hotel. At 12:30 I was woken up by my wife laying in bed surfing the web on her iphone.

Me: WTF are you doing??

Wife: I'm reading about sleep walkers. I heard him get up - thought he was going to the bathroom. Then I heard some commotion that didn't sound right so I got up to see what he was doing. He was sleepwalking right out of the room. He was standing just out of the door with it still open.....

Me: What did you do?

Wife: I just walked him back to bed. I don't know what to do now... They say deadbolts aren't enough to keep him inside.

We decided to lock the deadbolt, closed that little latch lock, and put two chairs in front of the door. I didn't trust any of that; I've never been so spooked before. I laid in bed with my mind racing thinking about every damn angle and was up well past 3am.

I spent yesterday morning sleepwalker proofing the house with these up at the top of each door.

 

[matuski]

So our 8yr old son took sleep walking to the next level...We were away for the weekend staying in a hotel. At 12:30 I was woken up by my wife laying in bed surfing the web on her iphone.

Me: WTF are you doing??

Wife: I'm reading about sleep walkers. I heard him get up - thought he was going to the bathroom. Then I heard some commotion that didn't sound right so I got up to see what he was doing. He was sleepwalking right out of the room. He was standing just out of the door with it still open.....

Me: What did you do?

Wife: I just walked him back to bed. I don't know what to do now... They say deadbolts aren't enough to keep him inside.

We decided to lock the deadbolt, closed that little latch lock, and put two chairs in front of the door. I didn't trust any of that; I've never been so spooked before. I laid in bed with my mind racing thinking about every damn angle and was up well past 3am.

I spent yesterday morning sleepwalker proofing the house with these up at the top of each door.

Yep. The story above was from when I was about 8 (balance post). Woke up in the next door neighbor's living room. Don't know who was more freaked out - me, the neighbors, or my parents.

 

[Apple Jack]

Who amongst us hasn't mistaken the clothes pile for the pisser after a night of heavy bourbon drinking?

 

[drfeelgood]

Wife got me other night standing with my face in the corner stuffing chips into my mouth but not eating them... crunching and spitting out. I've done this "stand in the corner" routine for a couple years now.

 

[Maik Jeaunz]

I've been sleep talking & sleep walking since I was a kid. when I hear the stories after it's always hilarious to me, but my wife doesn't find it nearly as funny.

 

[rick6668]

My son has had night terrors since about the age of 5 and although they are less common as he has gotten older (11 now) they still freak my wife and I out.

He would sit up in bed in the middle of the night screaming and crying, sometimes swinging and kicking at something that isn't there. Trying to talk to him would not work, He would rarely respond and if he did it was mumbo-jumbo. He would stare right through you and look at the wall/dresser etc looking terrified. The first few times we didn't even know what to do, I tried waking him up but it didn't seem to work. He'd eventually lie back down to sleep, sometimes with the above re-occurring again 10-15 minutes later. It was really stressful.

Over time it seemed that if I talked with him softly trying to reassure him that everything was ok, he'd come out of it after 5 minutes or so. It is really strange as I can now tell when he seems to come out of it. I'll be talking to him and then eventually it's like he's come out of a trance and I'll ask him if he's ok and he'll respond, "Yeah I'm fine". He never has any recollection that he was just yelling and screaming minutes earlier.

I don't wish this on anyone with kids. Thankfully it's never happened on a sleepover at a friends/grandparent's house.

From wiki:

The universal feature of night terrors is inconsolability.[8] During night terror bouts, patients are usually described as "bolting upright" with their eyes wide open and a look of fear and panic on their face. They will often scream. Furthermore, they will usually sweat, exhibit rapid respiration, and have a rapid heart rate (autonomic signs). In some cases, individuals are likely to have even more elaborate motor activity, such as a thrashing of limbs—which may include punching, swinging, or fleeing motions. There is a sense that the individual is trying to protect himself and/or escape from a possible threat which threatens bodily injury.[5] Although children may seem to be awake during a night terror, they will appear confused, be inconsolable and/or unresponsive to attempts to communicate with them, and may not recognize others familiar to them. Occasionally, when a person with a night terror is awakened, he will lash out at that person, which can be dangerous for that individual.[3] Most people who experience this are amnesic, or partially amnesic from the incident the next day.

 

[beer 30]

Used to have a girlfriend that pulled some wacky sleepsex thing. We'd go to bed and within minutes she'd be out...and turn into this minx. Dirty talk, ordering around, little bit of everything. When finished just go into normal sleep like nothing happened. Our normal sexy time was a completely different vibe so you could always tell when Dirty Debbie was in da house. True story.

 

[Ned]

My son has had night terrors since about the age of 5 and although they are less common as he has gotten older (11 now) they still freak my wife and I out.

He would sit up in bed in the middle of the night screaming and crying, sometimes swinging and kicking at something that isn't there. Trying to talk to him would not work, He would rarely respond and if he did it was mumbo-jumbo. He would stare right through you and look at the wall/dresser etc looking terrified. The first few times we didn't even know what to do, I tried waking him up but it didn't seem to work. He'd eventually lie back down to sleep, sometimes with the above re-occurring again 10-15 minutes later. It was really stressful.

Over time it seemed that if I talked with him softly trying to reassure him that everything was ok, he'd come out of it after 5 minutes or so. It is really strange as I can now tell when he seems to come out of it. I'll be talking to him and then eventually it's like he's come out of a trance and I'll ask him if he's ok and he'll respond, "Yeah I'm fine". He never has any recollection that he was just yelling and screaming minutes earlier.

I don't wish this on anyone with kids. Thankfully it's never happened on a sleepover at a friends/grandparent's house.

From wiki:

The universal feature of night terrors is inconsolability.[8] During night terror bouts, patients are usually described as "bolting upright" with their eyes wide open and a look of fear and panic on their face. They will often scream. Furthermore, they will usually sweat, exhibit rapid respiration, and have a rapid heart rate (autonomic signs). In some cases, individuals are likely to have even more elaborate motor activity, such as a thrashing of limbs—which may include punching, swinging, or fleeing motions. There is a sense that the individual is trying to protect himself and/or escape from a possible threat which threatens bodily injury.[5] Although children may seem to be awake during a night terror, they will appear confused, be inconsolable and/or unresponsive to attempts to communicate with them, and may not recognize others familiar to them. Occasionally, when a person with a night terror is awakened, he will lash out at that person, which can be dangerous for that individual.[3] Most people who experience this are amnesic, or partially amnesic from the incident the next day.

No pun or anything, but god that sounds terrifying. I'm still spooked about this weekend's escapade. I couldn't imagine what you went through.

 

[rick6668]

My son has had night terrors since about the age of 5 and although they are less common as he has gotten older (11 now) they still freak my wife and I out.

He would sit up in bed in the middle of the night screaming and crying, sometimes swinging and kicking at something that isn't there. Trying to talk to him would not work, He would rarely respond and if he did it was mumbo-jumbo. He would stare right through you and look at the wall/dresser etc looking terrified. The first few times we didn't even know what to do, I tried waking him up but it didn't seem to work. He'd eventually lie back down to sleep, sometimes with the above re-occurring again 10-15 minutes later. It was really stressful.

Over time it seemed that if I talked with him softly trying to reassure him that everything was ok, he'd come out of it after 5 minutes or so. It is really strange as I can now tell when he seems to come out of it. I'll be talking to him and then eventually it's like he's come out of a trance and I'll ask him if he's ok and he'll respond, "Yeah I'm fine". He never has any recollection that he was just yelling and screaming minutes earlier.

I don't wish this on anyone with kids. Thankfully it's never happened on a sleepover at a friends/grandparent's house.

From wiki:

The universal feature of night terrors is inconsolability.[8] During night terror bouts, patients are usually described as "bolting upright" with their eyes wide open and a look of fear and panic on their face. They will often scream. Furthermore, they will usually sweat, exhibit rapid respiration, and have a rapid heart rate (autonomic signs). In some cases, individuals are likely to have even more elaborate motor activity, such as a thrashing of limbs—which may include punching, swinging, or fleeing motions. There is a sense that the individual is trying to protect himself and/or escape from a possible threat which threatens bodily injury.[5] Although children may seem to be awake during a night terror, they will appear confused, be inconsolable and/or unresponsive to attempts to communicate with them, and may not recognize others familiar to them. Occasionally, when a person with a night terror is awakened, he will lash out at that person, which can be dangerous for that individual.[3] Most people who experience this are amnesic, or partially amnesic from the incident the next day.

No pun or anything, but god that sounds terrifying. I'm still spooked about this weekend's escapade. I couldn't imagine what you went through.

Yeah, it used to be really tough. I've learned to just handle it calmly and it seems to go better. It's been about 6-9 months since we've had an episode, so I'm hoping the end is near.

 

[arrow1]

I've started again lately myself. Lots of great stories from my youth - waking up in my nextdoor neighbors living room, clearing out the top shelf of kitchen cupboards and climbing in (i slept on the top of a bunkbed), etc. Was very scary as a kid waking up like this. As an adult it seems a little more tame. Wife got me other night standing with my face in the corner stuffing chips into my mouth but not eating them... crunching and spitting out. I've done this "stand in the corner" routine for a couple years now. I don't remember these at all, wife puts me back in bed and I wake up oblivious while she is laughing her ### off.

I'm sorry, but