Do you live with a sleep walker/talker?
By madasp
@madasp (563)
United States
March 1, 2008 4:04pm CST
I do and last night it got ugly LOL. I'm not sure what he was dreaming about but hubby was flailing his arms and ended up hitting me in the face. Not something you want to deal with at 4 in the morning. The most frustrating part is that I know he's sound asleep even when he's talking to me (and waking me up!). It usually gets worse when he's stressed about something.
Do you live with someone who does this?
Do you do it?
Whats the strangest thing you or someone you know has ever done while sleeping.
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9 responses
@ersmommy1 (12588)
• United States
1 Mar 08
My brother used to sleep walk. I think he was stressed about school. He'd keep mumbling about " he couldn't solve the math problem." My daughter is 4. She sleepwalks sometimes. She is scared of the dark.Even though she has a night light. Don't know if that has anything to do with it. Sounds like you have a bit of a problem. Try sleeping in another room for a bit. More sleep,less bruises. Try and keep a sense of humor about it.
@HollywoodBarbi (618)
• United States
1 Mar 08
i live with a sleep talker. i find it so funny when my grandmother talks in her sleep. she can actually hold conversations about the weirdest stuff.
i used to sleep walk, but for somereason i don't anymore.
@quiltedblessings (1066)
• United States
1 Mar 08
Oh man, yes I deal with this. 2 of my boys sleep walk and talk, and I'm constantly chasing them down. One night, my husband and I were sleeping, when suddenly, he punched the wall really hard, waking us both up. He was apparently dreaming that he was in a fight, and took a real live swing, good thing I was on the other side of him, cause he hit that wall so hard he cut three of his knuckles, I probably would have had a broken nose! Yikes!
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@ShardAerliss (1488)
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2 Mar 08
Oh, oh yes! Usually he just mumbled some incoherent rubbish and goes to sleep. Or he scrambles about in the bed a bit. There have been a few occasions that have been utterly hilarious. Or they would have been... if it had not been 4am!
*shuffle, grunt, pull at bedclothes*
Me: Huh... nuh... wha?
*shuffle*
Me: What are you doing?
Him: Looking for quilt stuff.
Me: Wha?
Him: Quilt stuff.
Me: Nuh?!
Him: You know, quilt stuff!
Me: No... I have no idea.
Him: *shaking quilt at me* QUILT STUFF!
Me: Eugh... what are you...
Him: Alright, let me explain. If my dad collects 20p newspapers and gets chased by ogres...
Me: Yes dear... just lie down...
One night I was woken up by him flicking the light switch on and off; we had a pull cord above the bed. When I asked what he was doing he decraled; "I can't read it!" What he was trying to read was the "light" goodness knows what it said...
On another night I was lying awake, just thinking about stuff, running through some questions in my head and he suddenly answered one!
Another night I dreamt we were having a fencing match (I don't fence, but he does). I woke up just after the end of the match and he asked me "So who won then?"
*shudder* All of this was in his sleep, he doesn't remember it at all. I sleep with a freak! lol
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@cortjo73 (6498)
• United States
2 Mar 08
Me! Me! Me! I am the sleep walker/talker. Mostly I sleep talk. I used to sleep walk when I was a child. I even got up at 3 in the AM once to start taking a shower. I actually got in the shower and turned it on, got in and once the water hit me, something felt wrong. I got back out and looked at the time since that was what felt wrong to me. Realized what time it was, dried off, got dressed and went back to bed, all he while giggling at myself.
Now, I halucinate and talk about it. I don't make sense. I'll say random words that don't go together like sock, coffee cup, crow, jacket. The hubby tries to snap me out of it. I can usually snap myself out of it because I am slightly aware that I have a tendency to do this and I am very slightly conscious when I am doing it...at least, some part of me is. So, that little part of me will just keep trying to think my way out of it. It goes something like this: there is not a spider in the bed. You are halucinating/dreaming/talking in your sleep. You are not in danger. Wake up. Stop talking. Go back to sleep.
It happens around the time that I am ovulating and again just before my period. Just a weird hormonal thing for me.
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@zenmachado (1617)
• United States
2 Mar 08
It is very funny to me, to live with a person that speaks in her sleep. Most of the time the spoken words are random and of a weird nature. Then when she wakes up, I tell her what she was saying, and she has no idea what the words mean, and I find that to be utterly hilarious.
@moneyandgc (3428)
• United States
2 Mar 08
My husband will talk in his sleep every once in awhile and it is funny. It is rare but it does happen. He never remembers it in the morning either. The last time he did it he sat up and looked and me and said, "Shhh, go back to sleep." Like he was soothing me. It was so funny. He had no idea what I was talking about when I told him in the morning.
My sister has talked in her sleep her whole life. She was very loud too. We shared a room and it became so annoying. You couldn't understand a word of it, it was loud gibberish. I used to get out of bed at least once a night and shake her to get her to be quiet!