Thread: Lucid dreaming and sleepwalking?

In a few of my lucid dreams, I picked up an object and woke up in the morning and realised I was actually holding something.

An example of this was when I was dreaming that this demonic, dark person gave me a knife and told me to kill someone. I took the knife but I wasn't going to do anything with it in the dream. When I woke up, I was holding a pencil as if I was going to stab someone.

It's happened to me many times. The items are mostly pens, phones, flashlights and random toys from my brother.

So I'm just wondering if lucid dreaming can be related to sleepwalking. I naturally have lucid dreams and sleepwalk, but not at the same time. I also talk a lot while dreaming.

Has this happened to anyone else? Do you think this is something good or something I should try avoiding?

That's pretty strange!

Lucid Dreaming occurs during the REM stage of sleep (when there is sleep paralysis), sleepwalking usually occurs in our Slow-Wave state of sleep.

SP occurs during REM as a defense mechanism so you don't go running around acting out your LD. In fact, there are studies of people lacking the SP mechanism -- a former football player who broke a bunch of bones dreaming about playing football, tackling his dresser and wreaking havoc upon his room.

So logically, there's no way you could pick up a pencil during a lucid dream. It may have been a result of the feelings and ideas you had during your LD transfering over to slow-wave sleep, which in result you unconsciously picked up a pencil or other items. That's my theory, at least. I don't think it's harmful as long as you don't actually pick up an item that can hurt you or someone else.

If you want to stop this, i suggest self-talking before going to bed. Just remember not to talk in the negative -- saying "i will not pick up a dangerous item" actually makes it more likely that you will. Instead, say something like "i will stay safe and avoid sleepwalking or picking up objects during sleep."