Sleep Walking
Have you ever been known to sleep walk? I was just sitting here on the computer in my room. My son is sleeping in my bedroom and he gets up out of bed and walks over to the dresser and puts both hands on the dresser and just stood there for about 10 seconds. I called his name and he just turned around and went back to sleep. I never saw someone sleep walk before, very strange.
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My youngest son (8) does it at least once a week. He'll come downstairs and start talking or crying, and we'll have entire conversations. The whole time he's asleep. I try not to wake him, but send him back to bed. Sometimes he'll go back to real sleep on his own. Other times the sleepwalk continues and he'll do it all over again.
I don't like to try and wake him because it'll scare him and really make him upset. But it's often the only way to snap him out of the cycle.0 -
Just FYI: sleepwalking is often (but not always) a sign of some kind of emotional distress in children. You might check into that. (The only person I've ever known to sleep-walk regularly was being sexually abused at the time.)
Closest I ever came to it was in junior high when I had a paper-route. I awoke one morning, turned off my alarm, got dressed and went out to do my route. Normally, this ritual happened at 5AM. The papers hadn't been dropped at the corner yet when I arrived. I went to the nursing home (nearest phone) and called the distribution center to ask if my papers were late. They said: well, we don't know yet: they don't start running until 3AM. I hung up and then asked a nurse what the time was: 2AM. Suddenly I realized why I was getting such weird looks from the nurses when I walked into the nursing home at that hour.
I went back home to go to bed but found the front door locked and had to ring the doorbell. At that time, the only computer in the house was in the basement and it turns out that my father had been in the basement using the computer when I went out to "do my route." While I was out, he came upstairs to bed and had locked the door on his way. I'm not sure he ever understood what his son was doing knocking on the door at 2:15AM, all dressed up to deliver papers....
I still don't know if my alarm clock did something weird (it was an old one, even back then), or if I just dreamed that I awoke to the alarm. And I wouldn't really call that sleep-walking, either; it's just as close as I ever got to it.
On the other hand, I was prone to falling asleep with my eyes open in my youth, which led to some amusing conversations I had with people when I was fully asleep.0 -
I did it once that was brought to my attention
when I was small, My dad told me I climbed the dresser.
he said I was climbing.
my younger days we were always climbing trees, you would think
we were monkeys. But we did climbed.0 -
Never had any encounters or personal experience with sleepwalking. I wouldn't think too much of it unless it persists. 0 -
I am told I talk in my sleep all the time................[?]
Haven't been or talked to a doctor about it because I don't like them to begin with, they think their is a pill to fix everything. Ill tell ya what, the only pill I have ate in the past 4 years is a centrum vitamin every morning. I have been healthy as a horse.
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quote:Originally posted by spurgemastur
On the other hand, I was prone to falling asleep with my eyes open in my youth, which led to some amusing conversations I had with people when I was fully asleep.
[:D]This is funny because I was in school with a guy within the past two years that could do that. I had him in a few classes over the two year period, finally the teachers caught on and told each other and the gig was up.[:(]
The first time we found out about it dude started snoring and we look over and we started to laugh because he was a little weird some times but, then we realized he was sleeping because we fake punched at him and he didn't budge.
I had forgot all about that[8D]0 -
not that I know of... but I would be asleep!
one time I fell asleep on the floor laying next to my dad, when I woke up in the morning he told me what happened. in the middle of the night, I just started kicking him and he said "what are you kicking me for?" I said "you s.o.b.!!" rolled over and went back to sleep. I didn't remember a thing about it.
sleep kicking, I guess.0 -
I sleep walked right off the second story landing. Ever feel like you are falling and awake with a jolt? This was like that, but I really was falling. Broke my collar bone and took a chip out of my rotor cuff when I landed on the first floor. I have pretty much always sleep walked. There is always a list of things I want to do and sleeping just seems like a waste of time. My wife won't allow me to have a night stand or dresser on my side of the bed. For some reason I smash the furniture when I am asleep. Once I walked about two blocks from my apartment in my underwear and peed in the middle of a busy intersection with a couple hundred late night partyers milling about. Then I turned around and casually walked home to bed. Fortunately no-one knew I was asleep and they all thought I was making some kind of political statement. The weirdest sleep walking thing that ever happened was one night when I fell asleep on the couch downstairs then got up and went to my girlfriend's house down the street. I hung out with her for 3-4 hours and then we went to sleep at her house. I got up about 2am and decided I needed to go home. When I got back to my place, there I was sleeping on the couch still. I couldn't go upstairs to my bed and just leave myself laying there on the couch so I tried to wake the "couch" me up, but I couldn't. So I went back to my girlfriend's and woke her up and told her to go to my place and wake me up off of the couch and send me up to bed. She was a good sport and left to go to my place. Next thing I remember is her waking me up on my couch and being very upset about it. She figured I ran home ahead of her somehow and played like I was asleep on the couch. I think the subconscious me had a dream himself and one of them went off the reservation and was making time with my girlfriend behind my back. I have another explanation, but it would require a lot more space and time than I have right now. 0 -
I used to sleep walk when i was a kid. Mostly when i had to pee, and i'd sleepwalk to the hall closet and piss in it lol 
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There must be something aboutpissing and sleepwalking. When I was small they caught me trying to piss on a grandmother thqat was living with us at the time. Then once i caught my oldest son while he was pissing on his little sister. She woke up during the commotion, and when we told her what was going on she laughed.[:)][:)] 0 -
quote:There must be something aboutpissing and sleepwalking. When I was small they caught me trying to piss on a grandmother thqat was living with us at the time. Then once i caught my oldest son while he was pissing on his little sister. She woke up during the commotion, and when we told her what was going on she laughed.[:0]
LOL!!!!! I'll be sure to post it if my son pisses on anyone.0 -
I sleep-walked a few times as a kid. I would wake-up, go downstairs ond piss in the kitchen trash-can...Their is DEFINATELY a connection to sleep-walkin and pissin'..[}:)]
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quote:I used to sleep walk when i was a kid. Mostly when i had to pee, and i'd sleepwalk to the hall closet and piss in it lol
When my son was young he would always get up shortly after we put him to bed, for a drink of water. We knew this was mostly an "attention" thing so we put a cup of water in the fridge for him to get by himself. Every night he would come out and get a drink. One night I hear the fridge open then heard a splattering sound. I checked it out to find him peeing into the inside of the fridge door. He had no recolection the next morning.0 -
When I was young, my Brother and I shared a room and slept on double beds, with the door open.
Frequently, my Mom and Dad would listen while we had a conversation in the middle of the night - while we were sound asleep.
Perfect Daughter Deanna was a sleep walker up until she was about 15. We would find her in the morning sleeping in some unusual place - like on the coffee table or on top the kitchen counters. She did this almost every night for years.
Does anyone know why people do this strange activity ??
Doug
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CHILDREN AND SLEEPWALKING
Updated April 15, 1998
SLEEPWALKING (Somnambulism)
What is Sleepwalking (Somnambulism)?
Sleepwalking (Somnambulism) is a series of complex behaviors that are initiated during slow wave sleep and result in walking during sleep.
What are the symptoms of Sleepwalking (Somnambulism)?
Ambulation (walking or moving about) that occurs during sleep. The onset typically occurs in prepubertal children.
Associated features include:
difficulty in arousing the patient during an episode
amnesia following an episode
episodes typically occur in the first third of the sleep episode
polysomnographic monitoring demonstrates the onset of an episode during stage 3 or 4 sleep
other medical and psychiatric disorders can be present but do not account for the symptom
the ambulation is not due to other sleep disorders such as REM sleep behavior disorder or sleep terror
Somniloquy or sleeptalking may take place at the same time
Incomprehensible mutterings are usually the case
The range of the episodes can be as simple as just sitting up in bed, or walking about the room to episodes where the child runs and screams.
In some sleepwalking cases, the child may urinate in an innappropriate place
the child may use obscene words that would not be used when awake
the child may fall and injure themselves
How serious is Sleepwalking?
For some, the episodes of sleepwalking occur less than once per month and do not result in harm to the patient or others. Others experince episodes more than once per month, but not nightly, and do not result in harm to the patient or others. In its most severe form, the episodes occur almost nightly or are associated with physical injury. If the sleepwalker exits the house, or is having frequent episodes and injuries are occurring -- seek professional help from a sleep disorder center in your area.
The child may feel embarrassment, shame, guilt, anxiety and confusion when they are told about their sleepwalking behavior. It is important to handle the child's feelings about sleepwalking with care.
How Common is Sleepwalking?
Medical reports show that about 18% of the population are prone to sleepwalking. It is more common in children than in adolescents and adults. Boys are more likely to sleepwalk than girls. The highest prevelance of sleepwalking was 16.7% at age 11 to 12 years of age. Sleepwalking can have a genetic tendency.
Sleepwalking Facts
Sleepwalking that starts at an early age, generally disappears as the child gets older. If the child outgrows the sleepwalking the age that it ended was approximately 13.8 years old. If the child begins to sleepwalk at the age of 9 or older, it often lasts into adulthood.
What can be done about Sleepwalking?
The majority of children who experience sleepwalking only have a mild display and frequency of the disorder. Therefore, most parents are relieved to know that most children will outgrow sleepwalking with time.
For more severe forms of sleepwalking, the late Dr. Nino-Murcia suggests:
Improving the patterns of sleep-wake cycle thus eliminating the possible role of sleep deprivation as a trigger to sleepwalking. (Bedtime should be the same every night, taking care to get plenty of sleep).
A full bladder may trigger an episode, so fluids should be restricted before bedtime.
Parents should remove anything from the bedroom that could be hazardous or harmful to a child.
The child's bedroom should be on the ground floor of the house. The possibility of the patient opening windows or doors should be eliminated.
An assessment of the child should include a careful review of the current medication so that modifications can be made if necessary.
Hypnosis has been found to be helpful for both children and adults.
An accurate psychiatric evaluation could help to decide the need for psychiatric intervention.
Benzodiazepines have been proven to be useful in the treatment of this disorder. A small dose of diazepam or lorazepam eliminates the episodes or considerably reduces them
Some of what I found.0 -
Thanks.
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Anytime Doug. 0
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