Sleep walking again

Minelson · #1 09/30/12, 08:22 AM

Hubby fell asleep on the couch last night. I went to bed. He said I got up in the middle of the night and I was just staring out the big picture window in the living room. He said "what are you doing?" He said I said "I'm looking for the cover for the goat horns" and then I turned around and went back to bed!

Last time I was sleepwalking I was digging through my drawers looking for socks for the goats

Alice In TX/MO · #2 09/30/12, 08:50 AM

I'd rather do that than have nightmares!!

eyore · #3 09/30/12, 08:59 AM

Do you take Ambien or if there is a generic for it that?
That has been reported that some people sleep walk, sleep drive, etc.
Not sure if any of the other sleep aids do it or not.

Minelson · #4 09/30/12, 09:03 AM

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Originally Posted by eyore

Do you take Ambien or if there is a generic for it that?
That has been reported that some people sleep walk, sleep drive, etc.
Not sure if any of the other sleep aids do it or not.

Nope...didn't take any meds to sleep. But I did have a couple vodka tonics out on the porch before bed.

CJBegins · #5 09/30/12, 09:11 AM

Oh boy, I used to sleep walk. It has REALLY put me in some strange situations. I don't know if I just don't do it anymore if my new DH just sleeps so sound that he doesn't hear me but I haven't woke up naked in a long time....lol.

Makes for some great stories!

Carla

CaliannG · #6 09/30/12, 09:27 AM

The last time I slept-walked (just what IS the past tense of that?), many years ago, I told my DH that I had to go catch the wolves running at Fulton.

Wish I knew where Fulton is, or if they have wolves running there.

I am with Alice; I'd much rather sleep walk than have nightmares.

jennigrey · #7 09/30/12, 10:14 AM

Fulton is just north of Rockport - over by Aransas Pass and Corpus Christi!

Never saw any wolves there! Mostly lizards, snakes and seagulls. Grama had some armadillos digging up her garden many years back but I guess they're a little fewer now.

Alice In TX/MO · #8 09/30/12, 10:21 AM

Wow. Yes, Fulton is there. Home of the Fulton Mansion. Beautiful home that has withstood hurricanes.

Coyotes. No wolves there.

sherry in Maine · #9 09/30/12, 10:34 AM

long ago, when dh was trying very very hard to sell one of his inventions and was repeatedly gettin rejected, he had regular sleep walking episodes, some of which were bordering on violet behavior. I had never seen it before, and after that time frame, never saw it again.

During that timeframe, I slept on the couch, so I could be near the phone/door, if necessary. He came out of our bedroom, glassy eyed, slightly crazed looking (sleeping) and I calmly asked him what he was doing. He snarled at me (definite animal noise coming out of his throat) then said menacingly 'to the bathroom' at the same time, he reached into the silverware drawer and pulled out a fork, & headed into the crapper. . . . .Despite my relief that there was a door between us, I also laughed hard & wondered the purpose of the fork . . . . .

The next afternoon, I overheard him wondering what the h--- a fork was doing in the bathroom.

rhaige9 · #10 09/30/12, 11:33 AM

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Originally Posted by CaliannG

I am with Alice; I'd much rather sleep walk than have nightmares.

I'd rather have the nightmares. I sleep walked into the pool in the backyard once. I had to unlock the door, and go through a security fence. Woke up underwater, didn't know which way was up. Cracked my head on the bottom of the pool when I thought down was up. Good thing the pool was only 5 ft deep, and I was in the shallower end and stood up. I've woken up in the neighbor's house in my sleep set, tee shirt and guys boxers, and they were in their 80's. Very amused hubby woke me up sleeping on their couch. Wife was a lot less amused.

Minelson · #11 09/30/12, 11:43 AM

Many years ago I was sleep walking and fell down the basement stairs. I got pretty banged up. So I would take the dogs leash and tie it to my ankle and to the bed. I did that for awhile and the sleep walking stopped. It kinda goes in spurts I think....but yes it can be dangerous.

Backfourty,MI. · #12 09/30/12, 01:40 PM

I remember you looking for socks for the goats. So glad I don't sleep walk, I have been dreaming a lot lately though & some of them pretty weird too.
Maybe you were thinking of something for Gretta's horns when you went to bed?

Cygnet · #13 09/30/12, 02:09 PM

There was a period of time when I kept falling asleep in bed and waking up on the couch. I've walked in my sleep since I was small, so I didn't think much of it ... until I realized that the horse's pen had been picked clean during the night and the lights left on outside.

And let's just say I don't sleep wearing much ...

sherry in Maine · #14 09/30/12, 04:32 PM

when I was 18 and in basic training, apparently I'd get up (complete dark) and unlock my locker (combination lock, in the dark, while sleeping--yes it was locked) all the while yelling that I was late and it was time to get up.

I was not popular for a few days. I'd awake sometimes with my fatigues on, boots laced.

Only yelled a couple of times, then someone would lead me back to my cot, and tell me to go to sleep.

dbarjacres · #15 09/30/12, 05:47 PM

Minelson...brings to mind an old country song "you are always on my mind, you are always on my mind ..." lol

I am a lucky person who gets nightmares and as far as dreaming they are either kinda dark or a sexual one here and there

Squeaky McMurdo · #16 09/30/12, 06:36 PM

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Originally Posted by sherry in Maine

when I was 18 and in basic training, apparently I'd get up (complete dark) and unlock my locker (combination lock, in the dark, while sleeping--yes it was locked) all the while yelling that I was late and it was time to get up.

I was not popular for a few days. I'd awake sometimes with my fatigues on, boots laced.

Only yelled a couple of times, then someone would lead me back to my cot, and tell me to go to sleep.

I thought the military wouldn't take people who regularly sleep walk or talk in their sleep for fear of that person divulging sensitive information unknowingly? That's what my brother was told anyway. He walked as a little kid and my parents had to put an alarm on the door because he did it nightly. He once sleep walked at the way to the fire station which was a good 30 minute walk.

I talk profusely in my sleep and am apparently a more adventurous lover when I'm asleep. lol.

CaliannG · #17 09/30/12, 07:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Squeaky McMurdo

I thought the military wouldn't take people who regularly sleep walk or talk in their sleep for fear of that person divulging sensitive information unknowingly? That's what my brother was told anyway.

Long, long ago, when it was believed that people always told the truth in their sleep, the military wouldn't take people that were known by others to walk or talk in their sleep.

But the people that were denied military entrance due to that are also dead now...it was that long ago.

Once it was figured out that you couldn't direct a person's dreams reliably, and that people who walked or talked in their sleep were going to do so according to their dreams, and that dreams may or may not have ANY bearing on reality at all, they both gave up trying to get information in that fashion, and gave up the rules about military entry.

After all, if it was so easy to get sensitive information simply by listening to people talk in their sleep (and EVERYONE talks in their sleep, some people just do it far more than others), then we wouldn't need interrogation or torture techniques, would we?

sherry in Maine · #18 09/30/12, 07:44 PM

no squeaky, I wasn't a chronic sleepwalker.
It was due to stress.
I also did it when my 1st marriage was in trouble/ending. I'd get up, walk down the hall, into the main room and yell, 'wait! wait! no! wait!'