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Weird things you do in your sleep

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  • 15-10-2016 1:15am
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    The Raptor
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    I woke up this morning with YouTube playing songs on my phone. I have no idea why. I went to sleep with the phone put away in my bedside locker, so i have no idea how i woke up with YouTube playing songs with my phone beside my pillow.

    Does anyone else do weird things like this in their sleep?


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    bodhrandude
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    Sometimes when lying in bed my legs kick out waking me up, a symptom I suppose of caffeine, as I do drink too much coffee.

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



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    One_Of_Shanks
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    I'll never know why and herself laughs at me all the time for it but I make decisions when asleep.

    I'll wake up at 3am and write down that we'll save X on mortgage if we transfer X over now. And I'll be waking up thinking this needs adding to the shopping list at 5am etc.

    I'm ok at the mo because I stay up late Fridays but I do most of my useful thinking during the night. I wake and make notes and make decisions. Then I go back to bed.
    Its hard to describe but my brain seems to come alive at night and I get up and write things down and then go back to bed and then wake to do it again.

    It drives herself nuts.


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    Hammer89
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    bodhrandude wrote: »
    Sometimes when lying in bed my legs kick out waking me up, a symptom I suppose of caffeine, as I do drink too much coffee.

    Maybe you're dreaming about being Hitler.


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    qo2cj1dsne8y4k
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    I don't do much in my sleep because I'm a very light sleeper. And even my breathing can wake me up.


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    Grayson
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    Sometimes when I wake up in the middle of the night I lift my arm in the air and give it a scratch. Then fall asleep with it still there. I wake up when the arm falls asleep and smacks me in the face.


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    whoopsadoodles
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    One_Of_Shanks wrote: »
    I'll never know why and herself laughs at me all the time for it but I make decisions when asleep.

    I'll wake up at 3am and write down that we'll save X on mortgage if we transfer X over now. And I'll be waking up thinking this needs adding to the shopping list at 5am etc.

    I'm ok at the mo because I stay up late Fridays but I do most of my useful thinking during the night. I wake and make notes and make decisions. Then I go back to bed.
    Its hard to describe but my brain seems to come alive at night and I get up and write things down and then go back to bed and then wake to do it again.

    It drives herself nuts.

    Apparently it's a symptom/sign if being quite intelligent and it's a good idea to keep a notebook by your bed.

    You should get your girlfriend a notebook and make her write down her thoughts every time you wake.


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    One_Of_Shanks
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    whoopsadoodles wrote: »
    Apparently it's a symptom/sign if being quite intelligent and it's a good idea to keep a notebook by your bed.

    You should get your girlfriend a notebook and make her write down her thoughts every time you wake.

    Ha, I LOVE this post! Thank you! :)

    Now all I have to do is convince a very grumpy mother of two twin girls to realise that i was right all along and that I have met a nice lady on the internet thingy to confirm it.
    :D

    I'll be back to you over the weekend. And if this goes to trial after she punches me then you're in my corner..... right?
    :)


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    whoopsadoodles
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    One_Of_Shanks wrote: »
    Ha, I LOVE this post! Thank you! :)

    Now all I have to do is convince a very grumpy mother of two twin girls to realise that i was right all along and that I have met a nice lady on the internet thingy to confirm it.
    :D

    I'll be back to you over the weekend. And if this goes to trial after she punches me then you're in my corner..... right?
    :)

    Dude.

    There are no nice ladies on the Internet.


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    daithi7
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    Grayson wrote: »
    Sometimes when I wake up in the middle of the night I lift my arm in the air and give it a scratch. Then fall asleep with it still there. I wake up when the arm falls asleep and smacks me in the face.

    Ha, ha Grayson, sorry but that's absolutely hilarious...

    I can't think of anything in particular I do myself in my sleep, I'm a light sleeper and I do a bit of the making decisions thing (or more like resolve on a particular action) while I sleep, so I keep a diary(&to do list) by my bed always & find it quite useful at times.

    One thing peculiar I've done a few times though is wake up in absolute stitches laughing & giggling, usually in the am. now I'm probably physically just smiling or whatever, but it feels to me like I'm laughing hysterically.. I think I've noticed (i.e. when i can recall my dreams) that this normally coincides with me having a dream about having the craic with my mates over whatever . I'm not sure what this means exactly, but I think it's likely to mean I just miss having the craic with them maybe, I dunno. I can't tell them or they'd slag me off no end, as I would them tbf.

    Does this happen to anyone else occasionally?? Any ideas on why dreaming of having a laugh with the lads seems to be a trigger???


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    Winterlong
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    When sober I would be a normal sleeper. Close eyes and wake up 7 or 8 hours later.
    When drunk though there is sleep talking, sleep walking, sleep peeing, duvet hogging, bad dreams....ya would wake up exhausted.


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    failinis
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    Apparently in the first hour of my sleep I whimper/whine and groan like I am in pain.
    Sometimes people wake me up saying "its okay its just a nightmare" but I have never had a nightmare when people do that?

    Often fall asleep and give myself dead arms and legs but not as bad as Grayson ha.

    If I have a dream and wake up I message a friend the dream but its all "laddy ntuuggt i ahd a dreeanm baout a dogm" etc. Brain never fully awake.


    The guy who kicks legs about - restless leg syndrome? May be triggered by coffee tho etc.


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    CINCLANTFLT
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    whoopsadoodles wrote: »
    Apparently it's a symptom/sign if being quite intelligent and it's a good idea to keep a notebook by your bed.

    You should get your girlfriend a notebook and make her write down her thoughts every time you wake.

    No... get your girlfriend a notebook and make her write down YOUR thoughts every time YOU wake...
    04:32... "honey... take a note... we need big roll"


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    RiseToMe
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    daithi7 wrote: »
    Ha, ha Grayson, sorry but that's absolutely hilarious...

    I can't think of anything in particular I do myself in my sleep, I'm a light sleeper and I do a bit of the making decisions thing (or more like resolve on a particular action) while I sleep, so I keep a diary(&to do list) by my bed always & find it quite useful at times.

    One thing peculiar I've done a few times though is wake up in absolute stitches laughing & giggling, usually in the am. now I'm probably physically just smiling or whatever, but it feels to me like I'm laughing hysterically.. I think I've noticed (i.e. when i can recall my dreams) that this normally coincides with me having a dream about having the craic with my mates over whatever . I'm not sure what this means exactly, but I think it's likely to mean I just miss having the craic with them maybe, I dunno. I can't tell them or they'd slag me off no end, as I would them tbf.

    Does this happen to anyone else occasionally?? Any ideas on why dreaming of having a laugh with the lads seems to be a trigger???

    My wife constantly wakes me up with her laughing away in her sleep, sometimes a chuckle, sometimes all out deep belly laugh!


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    gramar
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    bodhrandude wrote: »
    Sometimes when lying in bed my legs kick out waking me up, a symptom I suppose of caffeine, as I do drink too much coffee.

    I do this sometimes but I don't drink coffee. With me it's usually when I'm drifting off and begunning to dream and for whatever reason kick out at someone or something in the dream, replicate the action physically and that wakes me up.


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    myshirt
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    My wife likes to wake me up to blame me or give out to me for things that happened in her dream.


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    gifted
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    Sometimes I wake up thinking that I might have a chance with herself...but herself laughing soothes me back to sleep lol lol


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    daithi7
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    RiseToMe wrote: »
    My wife constantly wakes me up with her laughing away in her sleep, sometimes a chuckle, sometimes all out deep belly laugh!

    Glad to hear there's other sleep laughers out there :)

    P.s. and ironically, I'm a really grim, miserable shagger when I'm awake ;))


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    Speedsie
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    ¡arriba, arriba! ¡andale, andale!


    gramar wrote: »
    I do this sometimes but I don't drink coffee. With me it's usually when I'm drifting off and begunning to dream and for whatever reason kick out at someone or something in the dream, replicate the action physically and that wakes me up.


    I do this too, it's called a hypnic jerk!


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    Frigating
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    Conversation I allegedly had with my boyfriend last night in my sleep:
    Me: No
    Bf: What?
    Me: No
    Bf: No what?
    Me: No tea
    Bf: What are you on about?
    Me: Never mind, mate

    I also once asked him "how's your penis?" four times (he couldn't understand me the first three, hence repeating myself). I have no memory of these but I'm apparently still lucid enough in my sleep to carry a conversation.

    I do that hypnic jerk a lot as well, on the brink of falling asleep. Recently it was in a dream where I slipped and fell on some ice, kicked out as I fell and woke myself up.


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    lawlolawl
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    I gently whisper "Bush did 9/11" every ten minutes or so when I'm asleep.

    I have no one to actually confirm this but I just presume it happens.


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    RiseToMe wrote: »
    My wife constantly wakes me up with her laughing away in her sleep, sometimes a chuckle, sometimes all out deep belly laugh!

    I fell asleep on an overnight flight only to be woken up by an attendant. I'd been laughing my head off so loudly that other passengers complained I'd woken them up or stopped them from sleeping.

    The embarrassment. :(


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    zSparc
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    The Raptor wrote: »
    I woke up this morning with YouTube playing songs on my phone. I have no idea why. I went to sleep with the phone put away in my bedside locker, so i have no idea how i woke up with YouTube playing songs with my phone beside my pillow.

    I hope you liked the playlist... :rolleyes:


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    [Deleted User]
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    My 4 year old was talking in her sleep yesterday about 'I want a real Apple, not that apple'.

    #firstworldproblems


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    #25
    Gwynplaine
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    Got the Snore Lab app last week. It's great, I don't snore, but I laugh and talk a good bit. It's funny listening back to it.


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