Sleepwalkers And Sleeptalkers - Tell Us Your Experiences

[StephL]

Yupp - I am curious about that! Sleepwalking - I remember hazily/got told that as a young child I did this once or twice. But what always belonged to that context was my grandma and mother telling me the following wondrous, but true story - according to them both: My grandma did sleepwalk a lot as grown up woman - I also witnessed this, but harmless, just in the flat. One time she supposedly went into the garden and climbed up a tree. With her nightgown on and nothing else - she woke up up there, screamed - and it was big showtime with getting her down again - frightened and freezing cold. So - but sleep-talk I suppose I do very often. Got told that from different people sleeping in the same room as me - one time it was absolutely clearly connected to me having a nightmare, in which I had huge problems vocalizing - esp. loudly. People usually don't understand a word of what I mumble - but in this case - I let my partner imitate me and my sleeptalk - and it was exactly like I heard/felt it in the dream - strenuous fighting for vocalization with less than satisfying results. When I had a lucid with that problem - I also thought, it might be my real-life speaking arrangements got involved somehow. What have you got?

[LouaiB]

I do that often, but not sure if it is sleepwalking: My family tells me, a lot, that I wake up during the night, and just sit there. They ask me what I'm doing, and I tell them:"sleeping, go away!".lol. Then they have to talk me into falling back asleep! I wake up in the morning not remembering a thing at all! Lol Also, a while ago, I had a dream where I got out of bed and talked to my brother(not FA), and sudenly I wake up at the same position staring at the same spot my brother was!

[Moonflower]

i have never sleep walked. although i used to get out of bed so fast in the morning that i swear i was still asleep as i walked halfway across my room before actually realizing i was awake but i dont think i was fully asleep, more like in a very sleepy half awake state. i have been having a dream where i am talking and i wake up mid-sentance and end up saying the end out loud. i have been asleep and felt myself talk out loud and wake up because of it. its usually just mumbling though. my mom on the other hand is kinda funny when she sleep talks. one time when i was little i was getting ready for school and i went and asked her what color socks i should wear and she said "hawk eyes" lol. then another time i told her i was gonna go wait for the bus and she said "go to big school in" haha! i love what LouaiB said about them telling people "sleeping! go away" hilarious

[LouaiB]

lol me and my brother do that! Off-topic: Is the green glow nice? Or is yellow green better? Or maybe aquamarine? Augh I can't decide

[Meskhetyw]

I used to sleepwalk whenever I drank too much. It never happens these days because I hardly ever drink now, and never to excess, but there were some funny (and freaky) moments back then. I read somewhere that alcohol can cause this, and it made sense to me. I would often find myself somewhere after waking and wonder how I got there. One time about a decade ago I was sleeping on the couch of my apartment after having had one too many. I remember a dream where some guys were going to drop a piece of plywood on my floor. At the time I had a cat, and she was in the way, so I got up and grabbed the confused feline as she frantically clawed at the carpet trying to escape my sudden insane grasp. I put her in the bathroom and closed the door. I gave the guys the okay to go back to work and went back to sleep. Next morning I woke to incessant meowing. As I remembered my dream I stared in wonder to find my cat locked in my cold little bathroom. I will never forget that look. She was pissed. Then there were those times (several) that I found myself tiptoeing with a machete around landmines that were apparently set all around my bed, but that was a long time ago.

[ParadoxOwl]

I sleeptalk, mostly its just me randomly shouting stuff, often involving certain curse words. Honestly I'm scared and embarrassed of what I might say next :/.

[Narwhal]

When I was about 12 I sleep walked out of my bedroom with my big stuffed bunny, and lay down on the couch, and then my dad woke me up and told me to go back to my room. That same year my dad told me that at night he went and turned on my bedroom light and me and my sister were supposed to be asleep but he said my body was faced the opposite way on my bed that I usually slept and that I was leaning on my arm and staring him in the eye with a grin and violently pointing to the ground. He told me what I did the next morning and I had no idea what he was talking about, I don't remember doing that. More recently about a year after my dad had been kicked out of our house, my mom thought it would be funny to burst into my room while I was asleep and yell that my dad was coming, and according to her I thrashed about in my bed trying to escape my blankets and then trying to run out the door, and then she said he's gone I apparently went back into my bed never waking up. For sleep talking, I don't verbalize my dreams, however I talk to people while I'm sleeping. They actually get direct conversation with my subconscious which is why I lock my door now when I sleep because I like to keep my subconscious safe. My mom told me that she went into my room, and that I sat up instantly without using my legs or arms and stared at her with lazy eyes, and she said she asked me what I want from the Chinese food place, and apparently I ordered everything with detail, and that right after I went back into my bed. Then a few hours later I woke up and went into the living room and my mom asked me how'd I like the Chinese food? And I was like "what Chinese food?" And she was like "the Chinese food you told me you wanted, and when I went in your room to give it to you you told me to put it on your piano." And I was like "what the fuck, you lie!" and I went to go check in my room and there was fucking Chinese food on my piano and it was exactly what I would've ordered if I was awake and ordered it. There's too many other subconscious conversations I've had with people to write here though lol.

[sparkley]

I always sleep talk. Barely anymore now

[StephL]

Aah - very interesting Narwhal! I would lock my door as well, if a mother was around, who had found out such a thing! My husband tried to speak with me - I told him to - when I sleep-talked. But it didn't work - and I just went on mumbling in probably the context of my dream. What you describe sounds almost rather like sleep-walking - you were physically reacting - sitting up - had your eyes open and truly interacted. I guess the two things are different - my sort of sleeptalking maybe more close to people thrashing about in bed, while dreaming. Or people not being able to move, or move fast in a dream - since my sleeptalking seems connected to felt vocalisation problems in the dream. Very interesting - thanks folks for your reports!

[Narwhal]

Oh wow, I always thought it was sleep talking, but your right, everyone here says their sleep talking is associated with verbalizing what's happening within their dreams. Even my grandma verbalizes her dream when I hear her sleep. It does seem like my case is isolated, and more related to sleep walking, I guess mine would be better called 'sleep living' lol Would you be interested in hearing what you mumble from your dreams? Maybe having your husband voice record it.

[StephL]

Rather only voice-recorder - husband sleeps next door with his respirator for sleep-apnoe. I doubt, I would understand - since I sometimes don't even understand, what I mumble on my dictation function for dream journalling.. Yeah - I might - since I have the IPhone on the alarm-setting in the moment - I can't use that - but maybe set my computer up for it. Hm - yupp - might do that and report back!

[Coheed]

When I was a kid I was sleepwalking a lot. The most memorable night was the one where I appearently left the apartment I grew up in, which was on level 3 of a multistory building, walk down all the stairs, open the door and get outside in to the cold night. I still remember waking up standing on the sidewalk in front of my house, absolutely terrified. The worst thing was that the electric doorbell we had was somehow broken, so when I was standing outside ringing the bell like a crazy kid, my parents didn't even hear it. I was lucky that some random neighbor saw me and let me into the main building so I could knock on the door of our apartment. My parents also told me several times that I went haywire once. In the middle of the night I was running around in the same apartment, shouting random things and appearently being afraid of my parents which tried to calm me down. They said I never really focused on anything with my eyes like a zombie. Personally I don't remember anything of this. I guess it was another sleepwalking thing. About sleeptalking: I don't sleeptalk nowadays. I never had someone telling that I did except for that one instance when I was a kid. I had an app on my phone for a while in the recent years that recorded sounds at night. It never recorded any talking. I do remember though saying something in a dream and waking myself up by actually saying the words IRL. When I was a kid I had a reocurring nightmare. It was really abstract. It basically was just random numbers falling down from top to bottom matrix-style. My parents told me a lot of times that there was one incident when one night they found me shouting out "The numbers don't match! It's not right!" repeatedly and crying in my sleep.

[StephL]

Thank you, Coheed - very interesting! I have the impression, sleepwalking is rather something children experience. Counter-example of course my grandmother, she did that in her 40s or 50s.

[AnotherDreamer]

My sister used to sleepwalk when she was about 10-12. She would get up in the middle of the night, walk downstairs, and hang out in the kitchen for awhile before going back to bed. Was spooky to see her do it. I sleep talk a lot and sometimes it wakes me up. I'll hear a really loud voice and look around kind of like, WHO MADE THAT NOISE. Then I realize it was me ~_~. I first learned about my sleep talking tendency when I was a little kid. I slept in a hotel room with my dad while on vacation and he told me that I was talking in my sleep about the capacitor not charging properly. I also got my sister to tell me secretive stuff one time (when she blacked out from being too drunk). I shook her a lot and yelled at her because she was breathing shallow and not waking up. Then I asked her a question and she responded in a normal voice like we had been having a casual conversation, but her eyes were closed. Was like she was in a trance. She responded with complete honesty to any question that I asked her. I didn't like that level of honesty. I can see how some people might have thought she was just fucking with me, but my sister isn't like that. She didn't remember it at all the next day.

[StephL]

Yeah - it's scary to know, that you could be susceptible to nosey questions like this! I wanted my husband to try and communicate with me - but he claims, he never understands a word...

[TwitchLucidity]

I can sleep-talk on command, but rarely sleep-walk. I only sleep-talk when I yell (although their are SOME exceptions) and is struggling in the dream to say it. I wake up after that, and am like wut.