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Weird things you/someone you know do while asleep?

  • 28-12-2011 08:36PM
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 217 ✭✭


    Last night I got out of bed and for some strange reason took a towel and laid it straight across the bottom of the door, then went back to bed. I remember doing it but have no explanation for it. Another time I put on a pair of jeans and went back to bed. When I woke up I obviously still had the jeans on and remembered getting up and putting them on...again no explanation though. Really strange, obviously some sleep disorder thing.

    As long as I don't get up and set the house alight, i'm not too worried.

    Anything similar that you or someone you know have done while asleep?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,067 ✭✭✭Ficheall


    Maybe you were cold? :confused:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 596 ✭✭✭pipelaser


    My ex girlfriend used to grab my arm, shove it under her neck so we were spooning. Then, remove it a couple of seconds later. This would happen at least twice in the dead of night. I never got a good nights sleep.
    Its another good reason shes an Ex.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 618 ✭✭✭Carter P Fly


    I "suffer" from sleep sex.

    Seriously, Im a f*cking porn star in bed when I'm asleep. I can kinda remember some bits of it but like any dream sit fades really fast. Its not every night, perhaps once every two months or so.


  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 7,943 Mod ✭✭✭✭Yakult


    I've been known to do a few things in my sleep, only when on sleeping tablets tho.
    Went down stairs one night and lit a candle. Woke up in the morning and it was still burning! Another night I tried to cook a fry. An unopened yoghourt, pack of rashers and an apple all in the frying pan with some cooking out oil splashed over them. Cooker wasn't on thank god.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 975 ✭✭✭genie


    I sleepwalked once when I was a teenager. I woke up in my Mum's bedroom asking her what had happened on Neighbours that day. I never watched Neighbours again. :o


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 513 ✭✭✭x_Ellie_x


    I've been told I talk in my sleep. Apparently when I'm having a dream and I'm talking to people in my dream, I'm speaking out loud too. :o


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,944 ✭✭✭✭4zn76tysfajdxp


    I talk in my sleep an awful lot, according to my girlfriend. Like, nearly every night. I usually speak in Irish when I do so she never understands what I'm saying. Thankfully.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,129 ✭✭✭✭Oranage2


    I talk in my sleep an awful lot, according to my girlfriend. Like, nearly every night. I usually speak in Irish when I do so she never understands what I'm saying. Thankfully.


    Does that not annoy Phaser?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,901 ✭✭✭Gunslinger92


    Sometimes my boyfriend twitches. It can be just an arm or a leg or it can be an all over twitch. Can be funny or quite scary, depending on how awake I am :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,424 ✭✭✭Storminateacup


    I apparently keep my eyes open when I'm asleep. I don't know I'm doing it but it freaks people out


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,944 ✭✭✭✭4zn76tysfajdxp


    Oranage2 wrote: »
    Does that not annoy Phaser?

    I'd hate to think of how she found out if it did.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 209 ✭✭Maedbhish


    Came downstairs one morning to find the front door WIDE open.. It only occurred then to my housemate to tell us that she sleepwalks.. It was a miracle/tragedy no one was murdered that night. :P


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,506 ✭✭✭lil'bug


    my OH sometimes acts out his dreams/nightmares
    one time he dragged me out of the bed because he thought the roof was falling in on us :o


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,129 ✭✭✭LenaClaire


    My husband says I sometimes laugh in my sleep :o


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 209 ✭✭effluent


    Had a housemate come knocking on my bedroom door just before I was going to bed. He asked me if he could use my toilet, it was an ensuite and what made it weird was that he had an ensuite, so fair enough let him use the ensuite. Went to the kitchen only to return and find him asleep in my bed. Couldn't wake him up and couldn't go into his room as it was a share room, so had to share the bed, it was a double bed so it wasn't to bad. The only thing I could think of is that his housmate brought a bird back and he was desperate to get some kip. The couches in the place were terible and impossible to sleep on. At some point during the night I vaguely remember him waking me and asking where the toilet was and coming back looking at me with a what the **** am I doing and why am I sharing a bed with you look on his face.

    The next morning he could not remember any of this, not a thing. It's just one of those things I'm never going to forget:pac:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 92 ✭✭Chuck was taken


    Last August I was out with a couple of my mates. When I got home it was about 3AM. So when I got upstairs and went to bed. About 20 minutes later I woke up stripped completely naked, and took a piss off the top of the stairs. Then when my girlfriend came out to see what was going on I ran past her, laughing, dived into bed and went back to sleep.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,295 ✭✭✭✭Duggy747


    I used to do strange things while half asleep.

    I was dreaming I was sitting on the bed having a smoke when next thing I dropped it. Woke up completely dazed, thinking the fag had gone under the bed so I threw the bed upside down and pulled all the sheets off. I was awake but my brain was still in stupid mode.

    Took me about 2 minutes for my brain to start finally operating where I just thought "What the fùck have I just done?"

    Another time my parents woke up and found me sitting on the balcony looking at my room. They asked me what I was doing and I said:

    "Just waiting for the bomb to go off......"

    :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 587 ✭✭✭stacexD


    I can have a fully blown conversation with someone when I'm asleep.

    Talk out my dreams too sometime.

    Very awkward morning when a male friend was visiting for the night and sharing my single bed. He woke up to me screaming "No...no...NO...I said no... I SAID ****ING NOOO!!"

    :/


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,133 ✭✭✭FloatingVoter


    Drink had been involved, your honour.
    Woke up once in the middle of the night and took a piss in the bathroom. Next morning I discovered "the bathroom" was the deep freeze.
    Some nights later "the bathroom" was my wardrobe.

    After that, I stopped drinking during the evenings.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    Oranage2 wrote: »
    Does that not annoy Phaser?
    Cheek!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,194 ✭✭✭saa


    I talk my partner gets hotter than the sun.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,346 ✭✭✭KTRIC


    I scream , shout, laugh and sing in my sleep. I was told I can become very abusive as well.

    Thats the thing about sleep, you can no longer suppress the madness consciously :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,498 ✭✭✭Jamie Starr


    My brother got up once, in the middle of the night, and started rummaging through the wardrobe. I woke up and asked him what the frick he was doing.

    "I'M LOOKING FOR RACISM!"


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 856 ✭✭✭Karona


    I talk in my sleep. Just the other day I was having a little nap in the living room and my mam said I kept calling her. She was trying to have a nap too and all I kept saying was "Mam", "Mam" she said I was wrecking her head. Ooops lol.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 955 ✭✭✭Scruffles


    Last night I got out of bed and for some strange reason took a towel and laid it straight across the bottom of the door, then went back to bed. I remember doing it but have no explanation for it. Another time I put on a pair of jeans and went back to bed. When I woke up I obviously still had the jeans on and remembered getting up and putting them on...again no explanation though. Really strange, obviously some sleep disorder thing.

    As long as I don't get up and set the house alight, i'm not too worried.

    Anything similar that you or someone you know have done while asleep?
    rather than it being about setting the house on fire,were probably dreaming about being somewhere on fire,or maybe had watched something that had a building on fire.

    the bro in law apparently acts like he is skiing in his sleep,there is supposedly another part to it as well but cannot remember what she said about it,asked her to set up her camera so was able to get a laugh out of it as well,the tight get refused.


    am not one for doing anything weird during sleep,just a boring git.
    there is a rare ocasion when epilepsy [tonic clonic,sometimes status epilepticus-usualy if have been ill as well] spreads over into night time but otherwise am usualy in the same position from night till morning-with foot over the side of the bed,same position have always slept.:D

    one of the other girls am living with has profound autism,at face value she is only ever able to say 'tea' quietly and attempt to say 'hot chocolate',however there was one night when something quite amazing happened.
    her room is directly above mine,and everyone bar staff had gone to bed.
    was faffing about on the laptop as usual,no noise apart from fan of laptop,and suddenly had heard her speak an entire sentance-at normal volume,but the words were muffled because of the flooring.
    -had ran out to show staff via the laptop what she had said [am partly non verbal to] and they did not believe it but they told the manager in the morning and we had a chat.

    it was a relief to know at least he trusted what was saying,he has worked in many of the same experiences,apparently profoundly autistic people who have been without a voice for so long and start being able to speak as young adults are very bothered about the changes of suddenly being able to communicate,the independance they will have and so on.
    they had told her family,but this hasnt happened again since though she has started saying a few more individual words.
    almost all staff did not believe had heard her speak and said it must have been people from the other unit but am not stupid and can tell the difference between voices and directions.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,556 ✭✭✭Slunk


    I get them full body twitches sometimes. Jump out of a sleep. Other times i can be snoring and have a conversation as if I'm awake. Gf does be baffled at how i am snoring yet answering her questions


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,029 ✭✭✭Rhys Essien


    Heard a story years ago about a lad who was around 14, who was bad for sleep walking.
    On one occasion,at about 5am, he got up,went down stairs and headed out the front door in his pajamas and started walking in to town.His mother who heard him getting up followed him and when she caught up,she supposedly just turned him around and led him home,in a trance like state.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,089 ✭✭✭jefreywithonef


    I've been known to sing gibberish when I'm asleep. Apparently I unleashed a passionate rendition of "Hurp de do da day.." a while ago.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,921 ✭✭✭John Doe1


    My mate sleep talks.

    I sometimes get sleep paralysis, its pretty damn weird


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 318 ✭✭keithb93


    Me and my brother used to sleep in a bunk bed with him on the top bunk. One morning I got up first and went downstairs while he was still asleep, cue a load bang, I ran up the stairs to find he had fallen off the top bunk. The thing is he was still asleep, it didnt even hurt him.


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