roommate sleepwalks and sometimes knocks at my door

CorkMan

I have a roommate who sleep walks very often, constantly once or twice a week. When she does sleep walk she knocks at my bedroom door. What can I do?

She is not trying to get into my room, but she makes a noise against my door. The women is alright, not a troublemaker, but still. This occurrence can be irritating.

Stench Blossoms

Is she taking any medication that you know of?

Have you spoken to her about it? Maybe she's not aware of it?

lace

The only thing you can really do here is just mention it to her. Let her know that, although you know she doesn't do it on purpose, it is a little annoying. Maybe she could try to take some steps to try to combat the sleepwalking.

username123

You need to tell her.

Ive been sleepwalking since childhood and have walked out of peoples front doors into the garden, taken pieces of bread back into the room and put under the pillow, stood in the window gazing sightlessly outside, done crosswords etc....

Anyway, I have been in situations where it is inappropriate for me to sleepwalk and Ive just ensured that I set up a wake up device so I get woken up and dont go walking out their front door or whatever. The easiest is to lie a towel against the bottom of the bedroom door, the struggle to open your door against a towel usually wakes a person up. Or lock yourself in the bedroom and put the key up high or well under the bed or something - somewhere that you have to think about to get it. Or tie your wrist or ankle to the bedframe so if you go to walk away you get tugged awake. Ask her to do something like this maybe?

username123

username123 wrote: »

You need to tell her.

Ive been sleepwalking since childhood and have walked out of peoples front doors into the garden, taken pieces of bread back into the room and put under the pillow, stood in the window gazing sightlessly outside, done crosswords etc....

Anyway, I have been in situations where it is inappropriate for me to sleepwalk and Ive just ensured that I set up a wake up device so I get woken up and dont go walking out their front door or whatever. The easiest is to lie a towel against the bottom of the bedroom door, the struggle to open your door against a towel usually wakes a person up. Or lock yourself in the bedroom and put the key up high or well under the bed or something - somewhere that you have to think about to get it. Or tie your wrist or ankle to the bedframe so if you go to walk away you get tugged awake. Ask her to do something like this maybe?

Really not a clever idea in case of fire or an emergency imo

coffee to go

CorkMan wrote: »

I have a roommate who sleep walks very often, constantly once or twice a week. When she does sleep walk she knocks at my bedroom door. What can I do?

If it were me, I'd scatter an array of lego pieces in the hall between her room and mine. Wakeup guaranteed.

username123

Deleted User wrote: »

Really not a clever idea in case of fire or an emergency imo

Depends on the room, Ive only ever done it in a room that had an alternate exit ie, ground floor with large window or patio door.

The same could be said for the front door being locked in case of emergency - few among us would not need to get a key to exit a house in case of emergency.

GAAman

Very simple solution to this one, her sleep walking wont stop even if she takes steps to change it as mentioned by another person.

So make the door softer, get a single bed duvet or something similar and nail it to the front of the door, when she sleepwalks and knocks she will be knocking on the duvet which should muffle the sound.

You might have the problem of not hearing when people are knocking during the day etc so maybe leave the door slightly open or have people call your name etc

Hope this helps

tinkerbell

First of all you need to talk to your housemate about this. She may not be aware that she is doing this. Then she can address the issue.

R.D. aka MR.D

Well first of all op you need to know that she isn't doing it on purpose.

If she knows that she's doing it she will probably have ways like people have suggested to stop herself.

Just have a chat to her!

JJJJNR

coffee to go wrote: »

If it were me, I'd scatter an array of lego pieces in the hall between her room and mine. Wakeup guaranteed.

+Schadenfreude