I was asleep - honest!
By Humbug25
@Humbug25 (12540)
December 10, 2008 2:49pm CST
I have never walked in my sleep but I have been known to wake myself up in the process of talking, but rarely. I love to hear of people's stories of what they did in their sleep or what their partner did. There was once some guy that, apparantly, murdered someone in his sleep and so he was let off the charge. I have also watched tv programs about people becoming quite violent in their sleep and also raiding the fridge and couldn't work out why they were putting on so much weight until the cameras were put in her house and filmed her eating the contents of the fridge! LOL
Do you walk or talk in your sleep? Does your partner? What is the funniest thing you or your partner have ever done whilst you were a asleep?
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@p1kef1sh (45681)
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10 Dec 08
I'm not sure that I can remember anything funny that The Boss and I have ever done whilst we were asleep Humbug. I did work with a man whose son was an officer in the Army and took his men to Austria on a mountain walking course. They were staying in an hotel. His room was on the third floor and during the night he walked out of his window breaking his back. At least that was the story that his father was given. Most of us suspect that there may have been a drink or two involved. he was badly hurt and in hospital for months. Not very funny I am afraid.
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@Humbug25 (12540)
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10 Dec 08
Hi ya p1kef1sh
Ouch that's not very funny really is it? Like you say I think there might well have been some drink involved. I know my brother has got a lot of stories he could tell about drink with his army pals but as he is a Major now I doubt he would share them with anyone, not even his little sister!
Cheers p1key
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@kayree2002 (259)
• United States
10 Dec 08
That part about the guy murdering someone in his sleep. You think they would have at least tried to get him with premeditated murder, because that's what it sounds like to me. But when I was younger, I used to fall asleep in my parents bed and wake up in my own, and I always thought they picked me up and took me back to bed. But one day they told me that they never did that. They would always wake me up and then they wouldn't walk me back to my room and I would have full conversations with them, but since I never remembered any of these episodes, they just assumed that I was sleep walking.
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@opsinnerclan (1)
• United States
10 Dec 08
have you ever seen step brothers that what i think about when i heard this.
@kayree2002 (259)
• United States
11 Dec 08
No. At least I don't think so. Hmmm...you never know though.
@luvandpower (2048)
• United States
10 Dec 08
Murdered someone in their sleep? Wow that is unusual. I cannot say that he was "unintentionally" killing that person...because psychologically speaking we as humans image or mirror our emotions to our dreams, for example someone who is mad will probably have more of a horror field dream, while someone who is happy will most likely have a more happy and peaceful dream, like dreaming of spending time with their special someone.
In my own personal dreams I don't believe I have ever actually slept walk, to my knowledge at least. My brother on the other hand, once was sleeping really bad, and I got him out of the bed ( this was when we were both kids) and I took him to the bathroom, he went walking down the bathroom hallway like a zombie and everything, it was actually quite hilarious, then when we were nearing the staircase he fell over like a log and continued to snore. I think that is the funniest one I have ever heard in my family at least.
I was dating this one girl once who slept walk to fridge also...the weird but somewhat kinky thing though was that she pulled out all the whip cream, came back to the room and sprayed me with it...it was odd but I guess tuff like that happens...she still won't tell me what she was dreaming ha ha!
Have a Merry Christmas,
Luvandpower
Life is short, live it to the fullest
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@luvandpower (2048)
• United States
11 Dec 08
I just want to know what she was dreaming though...we were at that point not really like " an item" so I could had care less if it was about me or not...I prodded her about it for a good year or so.
@teshavill (278)
• Philippines
10 Dec 08
HI! yes,I had experienced it once when I was still a teeenager.This sleep walking or somnambolism is really scary.Just imagine doing something that you are not aware of nor totally conscious.My experienced was For a while I know I was just sitting in a chair after a very strenous activity with my friends but I was awaken by them shrugging me.I was about to go downstairs.They even said I was answering them when they asked me.Scary because you really might hurt yourself or someone else
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@toxicMDR (104)
• Romania
10 Dec 08
When i was little i used to walk in my sleep, i gone to sleep in my room and woke up in another room very often, been years since i done that, now i use to talk in my sleep, and sometimes when i sleep with someone i beat them in my sleep (the fate of my ex-girlfriends lol)
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@mzplased (255)
• United States
10 Dec 08
I talk and sleep walk quite a bit. It seems more when i am overtired or hot. I have awaken a few times to find myself standing in the bedroom and havingn my husband shaking the sheets and blankets telling me "see there is nothing there" I guess I freeked out and because there were snakes and spiders in our bed, none of which i remember.LOL
Both my daughter sleep walk also. They will come walking out and talk nonsense. One night I had a conversation with my oldest daughter who was clearly sleepwalking, she was upset because her eyelash curler was talking to her and wouldnt be quiet..LOL
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@wolfie34 (26771)
• United Kingdom
10 Dec 08
When I was on my retreat it was only a few months after I had left the ex, and I was bunking down with two friends in their room to get a freebie as it were for the weekend, I was told the morning after the first night that I was punching and hitting out in my sleep! I know that what was said is true as I know my friend and he certainly wouldn't joke about it, I have never heard that before but he said I was getting quite violent, I didn't remember any dream just the fact that I was lashing out I wonder if it was my subconscious working over time as it were, over the weekend it only happened the once, I might still do it, I sleep alone, but I certainly don't sleepwalk and when I go to the toilet in the night I am still conscious!
@ronaldinu (12422)
• Malta
8 Jan 09
I used to do sleepwalking. At least I remember one incident when I was a teenager of around 14 years. I know that I was at the door which I walmost opened wearing my pajamans, with my dad right beside me directingme back to bed. (c) ronaldinu 2009 - the more people I meet-the more I love my dog
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@LittleMel (8742)
• Canada
19 Jan 09
I do talk in my sleep, so does my husband. he told me that a couple of times and I also notice he does the same. there were a couple of times when I was young I visited other people's houses and stayed there for a few weeks or months, and they said I talk in my sleep too. I think when I am under pressure it happens. or I have a very bad scary dream so I screamed for help. But walk in my sleep, nope. I don't think so. Hubby would catch me because I am a night person and he is a morning person. so when I take a nap or sleep, he will be awake LOL
@mummyofthree (2715)
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19 Jan 09
I've watched some of those programmes,some of them are really worrying. As far as I know I don't walk in my sleep. My middle lad however did go through a phase of doing it.
There was one evening he fell asleep on the sofa. All of a sudden he sat bolt upright, then stood on the sofa, walked on to the arm and just walked over the edge! He still didn't wake up, just curled up on the floor as though he'd been sleeping there the whole time
Luckily it was only a phase for a couple of weeks and most things he did were funny and caused no harm but I do feel sorry for those with serious cases who can injure themselves or others.
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@aisaellis22 (6445)
• United States
9 Jan 09
Hello humbug25! As far as I know, I haven't talked yet while sleeping. So far no one ever told me yet that "hey, you're talking while you were sleeping last night!" But I have seen one who is talking when sleeping. My sister used to do it. There was one time when she's talking while sleeping that I tried to talk to her or have some conversation with her, but so far it didn't work.
@hildas (3031)
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10 Dec 08
I walked in my sleep only once. I had a dream one night years ago that my daughter was falling over the banisters of my stairs. I actually sleeped walked calling her name. My husband woke me up and said "what are you doing"
I did feel embaressed though but I actually must of thought this was really happening.
My brother sleep walks all the time though. He used to come down the stairs when he was little and sit down, then he would go back up to bed.
Yes. It must be awful when people are not aware of what they are doing. Murdering someone though, how did he get away with that one. He must of had a lot of proof that he was angry when he sleep walked.
@agirlfromtomorrow (290)
• Egypt
18 Jan 09
I've never walked while I was asleep, but I've been known to talk while I was asleep. to the extend that I once (when i was at school) I received a phone call while sleeping . My classmate talked about the phone call the following day at school and I had no recollection to it, when i asked my mom she confirmed.
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@cryw0lf (1302)
• United Kingdom
7 Jan 09
Apparently i called my boyfriend 'dad'... and i told him a dream about me being chased by a gigantic wasp o.O
'Apparently...'
Should'a seen him the other night. He was talking about something random. And i was like... are you okay? Seriously? I've already done that, you know i have.
He didnt remember it when he woke up 10 minutes after haha.
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@moshi692 (22)
• Philippines
11 Dec 08
i never sleep walk but i always sleep talk. My mom used to call me a night radio. They would wake up in the middle of the night thinking that someone turned on the radio but it was actually me. The latest incident was during the night of the Rihanna-Chris Brown concert here in Manila. I was really so sad that i wasn't able to watch due to some emergency that happened so what i did was i played their music on my iPod the whole day and at night while we were sleeping guess what? I sang Disturbia they said haha....
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@TessWhite (3146)
• United States
11 Dec 08
Sleepwalking in my family is a huge issue. My uncle used to have to be literally tackled at the front door when he tried to walk out naked in the middle of the night. My Mom actually unmade my bed (with me in it)one night and we found my sheet folded on top of her. I guess she got cold? Me, oh yea - big time sleep walker and talker in the past. The funniest time I guess would be the time my Mom woke up hearing water running. I was about 7 and thought I was in the bathroom. (In my dream I was!) And apparently I was standing at the foot of the bed peeing in my Dad's slippers. LOL As I got older I didn't sleepwalk as much but still talked in my sleep. I've even carried on entire phone conversations in my sleep that I don't remember. My Mom finally learned my voice was different when sleeptalking and she would tell me to hang up and go back to bed. LOL My sleepwalking, sleep-cooking and sleep talking got scary awhile back when I was on prescription sleeping pills. A nasty fall two years ago that made me end up in the hospital in surgery got me off of those. I don't think I've done anything strange since then?
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@rizzu87 (860)
• Malaysia
11 Dec 08
I do talk a bit in sleep, but i dont walk or do something which is uncontrollable. But my younger brother who is 14 now. He does many things.. like he wakes up in the middle of the night and starts walking around the room and when somebody goes to him he says something which we usually cannot understand... i am away from my parents since the last 5 months because i am studying in a foreign country. so my mom told me one the phone that couple of weeks back he woke up from his sleep and went till the main door of the house, he opened it and started shouting my name.. and once my security guard caught him when he saw my bro going out of the building towards the road.. when he asked him where are you going my bro replied i am busy dont disturb me.. hahaha this is kinda funny.. but can be dangerous too..
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@paula27661 (15811)
• Australia
12 Dec 08
I have never understood how sleep walking occurs, it's amazing that people can do things and talk all while they're asleep! As far as committing murder, that is really incredible, I have not heard of this incident before, did the man murder someone he knew and did not get on with? My guess would be yes. As someone else has mentioned, he must have been thinking about it during his waking hours. I have been told that I have on occasion sat up in my bed and started a conversation that I did not recall in the morning. Strange!
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@Humbug25 (12540)
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12 Dec 08
Hi paula27661
I said earlier in the discussion that the guy didn't know the person he murdered but it would appear that he did. Here is what happened according to Wikipedia!
Kenneth Parks, a 23-year-old, drove his car 15 miles to his in-laws' house in May 1987. There, he attacked his father-in-law, leaving him unconscious, and stabbed his mother-in-law, killing her. He then went to the police station saying, "I think I have killed some people." He was bloody, and his hand was badly injured. Parks was unable to recount anything about the murder, and he had no motives for committing them. He was unemployed and stressed. He went to sleep that night thinking about how he was going to visit his in-laws the next day with his wife to tell them about his financial and gambling problems. After a year, he was found not guilty of murder or attempted murder. There was an appeal, but his acquittal was upheld. He did not serve time in a mental ward because "non-insane automatism" (i.e., sleepwalking) is not legally viewed as a mental disorder
Thanks for your response
@wanted123 (121)
• India
11 Dec 08
my uncle is like tht when asleep he talk useless things he will play wiht his hand like a boxer even wake up and bath in open air he dont know what all things happening to me ..is it the problem of ur mental disorder???is it common nowadays and can they be treated??????????
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