Sleepwalking

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Anyone else partial to this pastime?

I was in a hostel on Saturday night and got up in the middle of the night and wondered into a room with two Spanish lads in it. I got into the spare bed and just kept on sleeping. I don't know if they came in to find me asleep in their bed, or if I woke them up (I tend to be quite a restless sleeper). Either way, I was woken by two irate non-English speakers. At first I was very annoyed at being woken for no good reason, but thankfully kept my cool and didn't tell them to F off. Gradually I started to wonder who these two people were. Then I looked around the room and wondered where my group was. Then it dawned on me and I profusely apologised and ran out of the room to look for my own (in my underpants thankfully). The hostel porter found me wondering the corridors and helped me back to my room.

I was very lucky it was guys in the room. If I wandered into a girls room I could have been in a lot of trouble!

This is far from the first time I've done things in my sleep. I've tried to get into bed with my parents, tried to get into the shower in the middle of the night in my girlfriends house. The earliest I can remember is getting up in the middle of the night at about 15 years old and getting dressed and checking the teletext. I gradually woke up and realised it was 5am, dark out and I was up and dressed for no reason I could think of. Also, I've often woken up in the sitting room with the duvet wrapped around me (usually naked).

There was one near disaster one night at home as well - I got out of bed to go to the bathroom but in my sleep. Then instead of opening my bedroom door I locked it. Then instead of unlocking it I took the key out of the door and threw it over my shoulder. I woke up shortly after that and thankfully found the key in time. I was very close to just pissing out my bedroom window.

Anyway, have we any other sleepwalkers here?

Kylo Ren

I've an awful habit of sleepwanking too.

pundy

i used to sleepwalk, but not so much anymore - woke up in the hall once, then another time as a child i woke up after tumbling down the stairs during a sleepwalk!

SEPT 23 1989

Sleep talking is the one that will get you into trouble

Potatoeman

blue note wrote: »

Anyone else partial to this pastime?

I was in a hostel on Saturday night and got up in the middle of the night and wondered into a room with two Spanish lads in it. I got into the spare bed and just kept on sleeping. I don't know if they came in to find me asleep in their bed, or if I woke them up (I tend to be quite a restless sleeper). Either way, I was woken by two irate non-English speakers. At first I was very annoyed at being woken for no good reason, but thankfully kept my cool and didn't tell them to F off. Gradually I started to wonder who these two people were. Then I looked around the room and wondered where my group was. Then it dawned on me and I profusely apologised and ran out of the room to look for my own (in my underpants thankfully). The hostel porter found me wondering the corridors and helped me back to my room.

I was very lucky it was guys in the room. If I wandered into a girls room I could have been in a lot of trouble!

This is far from the first time I've done things in my sleep. I've tried to get into bed with my parents, tried to get into the shower in the middle of the night in my girlfriends house. The earliest I can remember is getting up in the middle of the night at about 15 years old and getting dressed and checking the teletext. I gradually woke up and realised it was 5am, dark out and I was up and dressed for no reason I could think of. Also, I've often woken up in the sitting room with the duvet wrapped around me (usually naked).

There was one near disaster one night at home as well - I got out of bed to go to the bathroom but in my sleep. Then instead of opening my bedroom door I locked it. Then instead of unlocking it I took the key out of the door and threw it over my shoulder. I woke up shortly after that and thankfully found the key in time. I was very close to just pissing out my bedroom window.

Anyway, have we any other sleepwalkers here?

Why was their door not locked?
Do you drink? I know someone that had this when they drank and it stopped when they cut down.

Grandeeod

Suffered from it in my early childhood. Then it returned from my mid 20s until my early 30s. Set off house alarms in the middle of the night, Tried driving. Climbed out windows. Peed in a waste paper basket. Told people to do crazy **** and all while I was sleep walking.

When I was 6 years old, I came down the stairs from bed with a lamp in my hand. The plug was trailing behind me and bouncing down each step. My parents were watching and I kept saying shush, there's something behind me.

petes

Pastime? I don't think you are consciously doing it!

Johro

*wandering*
Just saying.

The One Who Knocks

Sleepshopping, now there's the one you have to watch!

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Potatoeman wrote: »

Why was their door not locked?
Do you drink? I know someone that had this when they drank and it stopped when they cut down.

Yep, there's almost always drink taken. Now, as little as two glasses of wine over a few hours, but there's an undeniable correlation.

old hippy

I was quite stressed last year and that manifested in several ways but one night I did wake up whilst sitting on the toilet.

blue note

I punched the girlfriend in the nose in my sleep one night as well. I just woke up to her beating me, cursing at me and crying. I didn't know what was going on!

iDave

blue note wrote: »

I punched the girlfriend in the nose in my sleep one night as well. I just woke up to her beating me, cursing at me and crying. I didn't know what was going on!

Tell that to the judge

murria

My daughter did it a lot when she was younger, I would hear a distant voice calling "mum" in the middle of the night and find her downstairs on the sofa. The night before her junior cert I woke to a white vision gliding around my room at half one. She had taken a shower in my bathroom and wrapped herself in towels, I gently guided her back to bed but she woke up and couldn't believe what shehad done.

My husband's friend has done some mad things while sleep walking, rearranged furniture, peed in odd places, etc. Once while staying in a hotel he ventured down to the residents bar wearing his jocks with a toothbrush sticking out of his mouth and leaned against thebar for a while. He is not a young lad either. :eek:

Potatoeman

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Yep, there's almost always drink taken. Now, as little as two glasses of wine over a few hours, but there's an undeniable correlation.

I would not drink when in strange places to avoid the above maybe even give ap.

197th User Id

Sleepwalking combined with morning wood .... that was my excuse.