Sleep Is An Imp.

Any sleepwalkers around? Come come, share your stories.

For most of my life, I've been known to sleepwalk. Supposedly at least 1% of all people have this sleep disorder, but I feel that mine is particuarly interesting.

For instance, I usually walk around my house in disorientated scenarios such as looking for someone that I know in full consciousness to be nowhere near me, etc. However, the interesting part is that I remember doing it very clearly in my memory upon waking, and I can communicate well while in this state. I will talk to other people (who are actually there, mind you), and respond coherently to their questions.

In some rare and frightening occasions, I will get into a violent fight with a monster or robbers and such, and then wake up swinging my fists or rolling on the ground for nothing. One time I thought I was getting strangled (probably induced by my hand laying over my neck while I slept), and I jumped off my bed and got into a struggle with an imaginary assailant, and ended up with rug-burns and cuts all over me.

Speaking of semi-consciousness, I have a question.

Sometimes, about every two monthes or so, I will have a very vivid hallucination while sleepyish-awake. They always happen while I'm in my bed. I'll wake up in the middle of the night or it will happen soon before I go to sleep. Most of the time it is voices. They are loud, and say things usually incomprehensible, and usually after a few seconds I realize that there isn't somebody in my room and I settle down. Sometimes they are accompanied with faint images of ghost-like wisps flashing in the corner of my eye, only to disapear when I look. Anybody else get these? Are they just tricks of hypnagogic imagery?

I must be the king of sleep disorders, ha, I got it all. Insomnia, hallucinations, sleepwalking, sleeptalking, and my strange jumpy eyes that roll around in their sockets.

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Any sleepwalkers around? Come come, share your stories.[/b]

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Sorry, I'm not a sleepwalker. What you're saying does seem strange btw.

Edit: to add at least something to the topic:
Like I said, I'm not a sleepwalker, but a friend of mine once dreamt he was going to jump into a pool. Apparently his sleep paralysis wasn't working very well or he just imagined the dream and he was actually sleepwalking, but what it comes down to is that he jumped from his bunk bed and broke his arm. O.o

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Sometimes, about every two monthes or so, I will have a very vivid hallucination while sleepyish-awake. They always happen while I'm in my bed. I'll wake up in the middle of the night or it will happen soon before I go to sleep. Most of the time it is voices. They are loud, and say things usually incomprehensible, and usually after a few seconds I realize that there isn't somebody in my room and I settle down. Sometimes they are accompanied with faint images of ghost-like wisps flashing in the corner of my eye, only to disapear when I look. Anybody else get these? Are they just tricks of hypnagogic imagery?[/b]

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That is exactly what they are. Hallucination during Hypnagogia are very common. They can be anything from sounds to images to feelings. They're nothing to worry about and might indicate that you are/can be good at inducing WILDs.

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I must be the king of sleep disorders, ha, I got it all. Insomnia, hallucinations, sleepwalking, sleeptalking, and my strange jumpy eyes that roll around in their sockets.
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The first two must suck to have. Everyone does the latter two things, though. There's a reason the dream-stage of sleep is called REM (Rapid Eye Movement). If I'm not mistaken, it's a result of your eyes not being affected by sleep paralysis. In other words, your eyes make the same movements as those in your dream.

I once got up in my sleep and murdered a virgin and cut her open and put all her blood in a bathtub and go---... wait a minute.... I see what you're trying to do..

Ha! I almost walked right into that one!

Nice try, maybe next time.

I've been suffering from Insomnia too: For more than Six months. After a long time you start feeling so ''messed up'' that you are in a sort of Waking-Sleep state. Eyes open and half aware, half concious...Like when people look in your eyes it's like the lights are on but nobody's there.

You are VERY VERY tired yet STILL unable to Fall Asleep: Your Hypnagogia will simply start manifesting itself OUTSIDE of sleep, while in Waking state, if it must. And that is what causes Hallucinations after long periods of Insomnia.

I'm now finally healing from my Insomnia by taking short midday naps and going to bed earlier and rising earlier too. It's bliis that I can sleep again. Now I can start Lucid Dreaming again.

PS:I don't see the Hallucinations as a Bad Symptom by the way. They're only made of your Own Creative Imagination. And Creative Imagination is what I adore.

"Eyes open and half aware, half concious...Like when people look in your eyes it's like the lights are on but nobody's there."

That's a good way of putting it. I've been told my eyes look empty and glassy when I sleepwalk.

"Ha! I almost walked right into that one!"

Foiled again! I'll get you yet.

"broke his arm"

I used to want a bunkbed when I was a kid, but I wasn't allowed to have one for that exact reason. Ow..

"If I'm not mistaken, it's a result of your eyes not being affected by sleep paralysis."

Oh, I'm awake when it happens. It's one of the major reasons for my insomnia. Strangely enough, it started when I began practicing WILDS. Unfortuantely, it prevents me from doing them.