Did I Sleewalk?

Never have in the past, or never had any recollection of doing so...

So I'm at a cousins house right now, and his room gets pitch black at night. You cannot see anything at all, not even your hand in front of your face. Anyway, I woke up, and I didn't realize that I was awake. I thought I was in some metal chamber, that was just sealed off, completely non-lucid. So I get off the bed, and simply just thought the room dropped off a few feet there for no reason. I thought there were people behind it walking away, like they forgot me, and that I was going to be trapped and run out of air. So I start to get very worried and make my way over to the door as fast I can (there was a faint light coming from the crack by the floor), and I start stumbling toward it, when my cousin on the floor calls out my name, and then I realized that I was in his room and actually awake, and breathed a huge sigh of relief.

First time something like this has happened to me, was it sleepwalking?

It sounds a bit like a night terror. There's not a lot I can say on the subject, but this should explain a few things:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_terror

Hi Blade,

I used to sleepwalk all the time as a kid, and that doesn't sound like anything I ever experienced associated with sleepwalking. Usually when you sleepwalk, you're unaware of the fact until you wake up. Unless you were half way across the room about to reach for the door when you woke up, I'd have to say it was most likely a dream. Oftentimes when you sleep in an unfamiliar place, you're more awake/aware during sleep and dream than you'd normally be, so it's easier for elements of the external environment to get incorporated into your dreams. In fact, your experience sounds like some I’ve had while napping, when the mind is also generally more awake.

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Originally Posted by blade5x

Never have in the past, or never had any recollection of doing so...

So I'm at a cousins house right now, and his room gets pitch black at night. You cannot see anything at all, not even your hand in front of your face. Anyway, I woke up, and I didn't realize that I was awake. I thought I was in some metal chamber, that was just sealed off, completely non-lucid. So I get off the bed, and simply just thought the room dropped off a few feet there for no reason. I thought there were people behind it walking away, like they forgot me, and that I was going to be trapped and run out of air. So I start to get very worried and make my way over to the door as fast I can (there was a faint light coming from the crack by the floor), and I start stumbling toward it, when my cousin on the floor calls out my name, and then I realized that I was in his room and actually awake, and breathed a huge sigh of relief.

First time something like this has happened to me, was it sleepwalking?
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Hey there; now this is just my opinion, but it sounds like you were just a little disoriented from sleep right after waking up. Being in a setting you're not used to can do that, especially in complete darkness. Similar things have happened to me. I don't think it was sleepwalking because you could see the room and all, and I would tend to disagree with it being night terrors, only because you don't usually remember what they were about.

VERY very interresting.

Sounds like the Opposite of a False Awakening ...What should we call that? :wink:

Well maybe the Reason you weren't aware of being awake yet was because that Pitch Black is INTENSELY DISORIENTATING so you don't know where the heck you are.....and when we don't know where the heck we are it is usually in Dreams. Hallucinations (Not only visual, but also Manic thoughts: like you thinking you were sealed of in that room with people walking behind the walls ) occur mostly in PITCHdark spacec since than there's a big Questionmark for you as to where you are and your Mind starts Making Suggestions as to where you MIGHT be. In the Dreamy State people are in Just after awakening our Minds are more Susceptible to Start Suggesting and actually BELIEVING these Self-Suggestions.

I'm going to try this with my Attelier room: Very Disorientating and the possibility to block out all light and make it PITCHblack. BEST place for Experiencing Hallucinations and Severe Disorientation after just Awakening: It may prove a good tool to Increase DreamRecall, Since the Complete Darkness keeps your mind from Completely Waking up and waking too Much so we end up Forgetting dreams.


INTERRESTING Topic.


BTW: I'm Positive you weren't Sleepwalking, but only Severely Disorientated.
I've been sleepwalking ALOT as a child: You don't have any recollection of what you did while sleepwalking. My mom told me that since I was unconcious asleep.
What happens with sleep walking is SLEEP PARALYSIS failing so you end up making the Actual movements IRL that you are doing in your dreams. I Have walked down a curved flight of stairs while Sleepwalking, so appearantly Sleepwalkers walk adn act on the TOUCH as I didn't fall but went downstais and walked up like a Zombie to my Mother in the LivingRoom Downstairs hahaha.

She told me it was really scary seeing a 4 year old walking down the stairs and towards her and my dad zombie style :content:

The pitch blackness probably did it. My room is pretty lit up during the night, I can see everything in the room because I have a street light outside of my house that puts as much light into my room as how a full moon lights up everything outside (along with a few computer lights, since my computer never shuts off). So no matter when I wake up at my house, I always know where I am immediatly. The pitch blackness definently threw me off severly.

And Peregrinus, when I became fully concious I was standing in the middle of the room, I didn't wake up again in bed ;) So it was not a FA like SKA said.

Just be careful when you try it SKA. I was on the verge of freaking out and running over to the door to start banging on it and yelling at the top of my lungs to open up the door waking up the entire house.

It was so wierd because it almost felt dream-like. Like physically, it felt more real than a dream, but not like waking reality. I sort of had a fuzzy-like feel all over me, sort of like when I think my WILDs end up being real OBEs (I won't get into this though). And I did hallucinate for a second or two because I saw 3 people walking away from the door (somehow I managed to see this through the crack in the door). And there was also more light coming through the crack than there actually was, as if the next room over was lit up fully, which it was not.

Yeah, you didn't sleepwalk- i'll give you many accounts of my own which proves sleepwalking;

-Waking up upside down on my bed,

-Going to sleep with a new pillow, but waking up with my old pillow (the funny thing is that the new pillow is exactly where my old pillow was... under my bed)

-Going to sleep upstairs and waking up downstairs on the couch.

-Waking up under my bed (that was really wierd.. and pretty damn cool! I thought I had been teleported!)

-My mum telling me in the morning that she heard me walking around, and when she asked me what I was doing, I replied "I'm going to beeeeeeed....."

I better watch out lol! Oh yeah, and good recoveries from your night terror!

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Sounds like the Opposite of a False Awakening ...What should we call that? :wink:
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A False Sleeping. :P Totally. You're all "Haha! i'm dreaming!" But you're really on the end of you're own bed taking swings at a television or a lamp or something. :wink: