Okay, so my little brother apparently walks in his sleep (Posted here) I guess I'll just start a sleep walk thread. Feel free to talk about: .Your experiences with sleepwalking .Facts about it .Any stories you find (hopefully kind of funny) about it .Why people sleepwalk .Etc.
thats really interesting. meybe there are some types of sleepwalking. i wont fall the stairs or hit a wall and it doesnt matter if im sleeping in a new place. i might think im in a different place but i will still be able to see the walls and other things around me. i guess every sleepwalker has his own traits lol
My grandfather ha serious problems with sleep walking. He stumbled and fell with his head in the door handle, twice. And other time, he dreamed he was a soccer player and then he kicked the ball in a dream but he kicked my grandmother out the bed.
I bet it's that if you're in your own home where you know where everything is, it's easier to get around even if you're sleeping. Maybe that's why your friend ate wall when he slept over at your house.
Maybe but dosen't the remote always move from it's spot in your house? I think it would be very hard to still be asleep when doin that.
Maybe but dosen't the remote always move from it's spot in your house? I think it would be very hard to still be asleep when doin that.
Not really, if you know where the remote usually is. Maybe they're half asleep and just don't remember...?
Did anyone see that thing on TV about a lady sleepwalking to raid her fridge at night? She was on a diet, but she was gaining weight and couldn't figure out why. Haha, I should google it and post a link to it.
Sleepwalking people tend to do all sorts of crazy things. Eating, driving, shopping, random sexual incounters.
I've read quite a few older books (circa 1890-1920) where sleepwalking was not fully understood at that point. The older ones, which were crime novels, found a person guilty of a crime which was done while the suspect was sleepwalking. The reasoning was that the suspect wanted to commit the crime yet feared the justice system. So them doing while not aware when sleepwalking was sufficient evidence to convict them.
I hear there's criteria for conviction if you committed the crime while sleepwalking or having night terrors (not to be confused with nightmares!). Or at least there has been for a while. If you never had any qualms with the victim and you didn't "clean up" while under the "spell", then the courts are less likely to point the finger. One famous case included these two criterion, which ended humorously.
"So, you were SO dazed from sleepwalking that you made sure to cover up the evidence for the victim who happens to be your wife who committed adultery against you?"
Sleep walking and dreaming aren't typically associated. Sleep walking occurs during stage 4 sleep. Most dreaming occurs during REM sleep.
I knew a guy whose family moved a lot. One night, he sleep walked back to his old house. It was something like 20 miles away. Maybe more. His shoes were totally ripped up and his feet weren't much better.
I have never done any sleep walking myself, to my knowledge.
One night I was talking with my sister-in-law on the phone, and in mid-sentence she screamed because my nephew was peeing in the hallway.
Was that his typical place of residence? Often, sleep walkers will act on the assumption that they are in their homes, leading to such situations.
In my Psych class, they taught us that in sleep walking, a person can only do a few very simple things. Get up, walk, go up stairs, open a door, sit down, get back up, go to bed. Anything that's much more than that they told us was just a lie, or people making up stories.
My teacher also said that the myth where you shouldn't wake a sleep walking person because it will be bad for them isn't true also, but it can be bad for the person waking them up. Depending on what sort of dream they were having, they might be scared/confused, and might lash out at you, thinking they are still dreaming.
Sleepwalking people tend to do all sorts of crazy things. Eating, driving, shopping, random sexual incounters.
Yeah, I just googled "sleep walking eating" and got every one of those topics. I'm a little ashamed because the story of this woman was on Dr. Oz... Ugh, I must have been at my mom's house or something.
I've read quite a few older books (circa 1890-1920) where sleepwalking was not fully understood at that point. The older ones, which were crime novels, found a person guilty of a crime which was done while the suspect was sleepwalking.
Wow, I guess it's not fiction! I just found this story, it's actually really sad.
@Kasic: This is very true for those that are also under a night terror. In my example, you may want to restrain them a little bit, since most of their activities involve running, yelling, and flailing about, but waking them up just makes things worse.
The reason you aren't supposed to wake sleep walkers is because they might have a night terror. A night terror occurs when someone goes from stage 4 sleep (where sleep walking occurs and dreaming is uncommon) to wakefulness. It results in... uncontrollable terror, I guess. People wake up screaming randomly.
The reason you aren't supposed to wake sleep walkers is because they might have a night terror.
No. A night terror is an unusually vivid nightmare, where you are unable to distinguish reality from the dream. Waking up a sleep walker won't cause a night terror, although if they ARE having one then you better watch out.
