Thread: Sleepwalking

I am sure this has been discussed before, but a funny thing happened to me.

Up to this point, I have never sleepwalked in my entire life (...that I know of). It has only been a few months since I started getting into lucid dreaming, and the way I look at my dreams and react in my dreams has changed because of it.

The other night, I was sleeping at my friends house, in the same bed. All of a sudden I sat up in bed, and my friend woke up. She called my name, wondering why I was seemingly about to get up, and that woke me up, and I lay back down. I remember exactly what I was dreaming at the time. We were in a club, and my friend (the same one) was pulling my hand and saying for me to follow her. I remember feeling like I didn't want to get up, so I was sitting there just preparing myself to stand up. That's when my friend woke me up, and I found out I was sitting up in bed.

So I'm thinking, if my friend hadn't woken me up, I would probably have sleepwalked!

My question is, do you think that sleepwalking can be brought on by lucid dreaming? I've never done it before now, and I just started lucid dreaming recently too. Do you think there may be a link?

Possibly, maybe you were TOO awake in your dreams which also wakes your body which migh prevent sleep paralysis from happening.
Hidunoo :/

Sleeping in other places than your ordinary bed, often triggers more awareness while sleeping. I believe that we feel "unsave", so the body-controlling center of your brain is still sorta awake.

I belive it's possible, after all, mind and body are pretty well connected to one another, you don't have to think to breath, and when you react to things, it's from your memories/ past experiences in which you base that reflex off of (jumpy people don't become jumpy without that).

That, and on a less techincal note, I've had experience with that once before, I don't sleepwalk, but I had a dream once about wrapping presents (was lucid at first, then got distracted and lost it) and lo and behold, when I woke up, one piece of blue wrapping paper, no larger than a newspaper cover, was on the floor, I lock my doors at night and they where still locked when I woke up, so I assumed it was from that dream that it got there...

Originally Posted by Lucidbulbs

I belive it's possible, after all, mind and body are pretty well connected to one another, you don't have to think to breath, and when you react to things, it's from your memories/ past experiences in which you base that reflex off of (jumpy people don't become jumpy without that).

That, and on a less techincal note, I've had experience with that once before, I don't sleepwalk, but I had a dream once about wrapping presents (was lucid at first, then got distracted and lost it) and lo and behold, when I woke up, one piece of blue wrapping paper, no larger than a newspaper cover, was on the floor, I lock my doors at night and they where still locked when I woke up, so I assumed it was from that dream that it got there...
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That reminds me of a "Nightmare in Elm street" movie where one of the guys tries to bring freddy into the real world and wakes to find Freddies hat in his bed.........

Okay, now while I can;'t give a definitive answer, I can provide a pretty solid one to this question:

Originally Posted by Janos

My question is, do you think that sleepwalking can be brought on by lucid dreaming? I've never done it before now, and I just started lucid dreaming recently too. Do you think there may be a link?[/b]

No. Not a direct link at least.

Sleepwalking occurs during deep sleep, slow eye movement sleep.

Dreaming occurs during light sleep, rapid eye movement sleep. Or at least, this is the only period in which you have dreams coherant enough to be remembered.

So, whenever you are sleepwalking, you will likely not be dreaming - the two occur during two totally different phases of sleep.

Hope that helps.

Originally Posted by The

Okay, now while I can;'t give a definitive answer, I can provide a pretty solid one to this question:
No. Not a direct link at least.

Sleepwalking occurs during deep sleep, slow eye movement sleep.

Dreaming occurs during light sleep, rapid eye movement sleep. Or at least, this is the only period in which you have dreams coherant enough to be remembered.

So, whenever you are sleepwalking, you will likely not be dreaming - the two occur during two totally different phases of sleep.

Hope that helps.
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Interesting... but it doesn't really explain how I ended up sitting up in bed. At the time, even after I woke up, I couldn't even tell I was sitting up. My body felt absolutely nothing, and even when I lay back down I could hardly tell the difference. It was an odd experience!

Thanks for this information, it's good to know!

Originally Posted by The

That, and on a less techincal note, I've had experience with that once before, I don't sleepwalk, but I had a dream once about wrapping presents (was lucid at first, then got distracted and lost it) and lo and behold, when I woke up, one piece of blue wrapping paper, no larger than a newspaper cover, was on the floor, I lock my doors at night and they where still locked when I woke up, so I assumed it was from that dream that it got there...
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What? You're saying that a real, solid piece of wrapping paper appeared on your bedroom floor, out of a dream? ...I don't mean to offend, but I'm kind of skeptical that a solid object could possibly have been produced because of a dream. Maybe I misinterpreted what you were trying to say. Are you sure you didn't sleepwalk, and find the paper in your closet or somewhere?

Originally Posted by The

Sleeping in other places than your ordinary bed, often triggers more awareness while sleeping. I believe that we feel "unsave", so the body-controlling center of your brain is still sorta awake.
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That's possible. Also, I wasn't on my normal sleeping pattern either. Instead of going to bed at the normal time, we'd been out that night so I ended up getting to bed around 5AM. I'm not sure if that would have changed things either, because obviously I was much more tired than normal, as well.

On one hand, maybe I was too tired to care about what bed I was sleeping in?

Originally Posted by The

Possibly, maybe you were TOO awake in your dreams which also wakes your body which migh prevent sleep paralysis from happening.
Hidunoo :/
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That thought had occurred to me as well

i used to sleep walk al the time when i was a kid and every time i woke up i was in a different bed because my parents just tried to get me to go to sleep in the nearest bed but anyways i did not have a lucid dreams then that corrilated with that at all

Originally Posted by crash_productions

i used to sleep walk al the time when i was a kid and every time i woke up i was in a different bed because my parents just tried to get me to go to sleep in the nearest bed but anyways i did not have a lucid dreams then that corrilated with that at all
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I'm sure it's not the same case for everyone. Obviously there are lots of people who sleepwalk, many who have probably never lucid-dreamed in their lives! But I'm just wondering if my starting lucid dreaming may have a connection with sleepwalking, since I've never done that before either.