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Half an hour ago (I'm from Italy, it is 3 AM now) I dreamed I was in my room when a man came into and ran towards me. I was very scared and I moved in order to dodge him, and I woke up. But instead of being in my bed I was standing in the middle of my room. I did the "little jump" reality check to test gravity an no doubt I was in reality. It was in that moment that I realized"WTF, a normal person should wake up in bed and not while walking here and there!". It was very, very, frightening, it is not the first time it happens to me to sleepwalk but it is the first time I wake up while sleepwalking. Now I don't want to come back to bed, I am too shocked, I want to tell my parents what I have experienced and talk to a psycanalist as soon as possible.
By the way, I want to tell the DOCUMENTED sleep-walking episodes I had in maybe 2 years, but I fear they are probably more.
1) I wake up in the morning with the light turned on. I go towards my door but it is LOCKED. I begin to panic (my brain cannot accept the fact the door is locked), I violently shake the door handle and call my brother!
Evidently I have locked the door during sleep but I didn't have any memory of it.
2) I wake up in the morning. The puzzle picture that is supposed to be hung over my bed is on the other side of my bedroom. Evidently I carried the picture during sleep.
3) I am in a dream. In my house a laser game (like Q-ZAR, people shoot other people with laser guns) is taking place. I am really annoyed by this stuff cause I want to sleep, a guy enters my room, I take his gun and I take apart it!
The morning when I wake up, my alarm clock was lying on the floor without the batteries!
I used to laught at my sleep walking experiences, but waking up in the way I described is very scary!
Do you think the sleep-walking awareness I have experienced tonight is in some way correlated to lucid dreaming? I began to be interested in LD no more than 3 weeks ago and I already had some lucid esperiences (a very vivid DILD too). Can you explain me something about sleep walking?
Thanks.
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I'm not sure. Sounds strange. I haven't experienced sleep walking myself. However, I can imagine that it's very scary. I suggest going to a doctor as soon as possible.
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Don't know your age? but am assuming you're between 12-20?
I was a sleepwalker as a kid and occasionally upon entering my adulthood,
so I know what you're experiencing. Most sleepwalkers are male, but it's
unknown as to why this is (I'm female).
I will say however, (from experience)
that it's actually a positive sign that you're waking up during these
episodes. In other words, your mind is exerting or trying to exert control
over sleepwalking and in the coming months you might actually have
complete control and defeat the sleepwalking cycle. This action of waking
while still "walking" might signal that the part of your brain that regulates
this cycle is maturing and learning. I very seriously doubt
a shrink will help and I would hold off from doing this for a few months in
any case. The doc would probably drug you and this would stifle your
natural progress. Sleepwalking rarely has a psychological genesis. It's a
primitive response to either to stress or shows a lack of maturity in a key portion of the brain
(my intuitive premise). For this reason, most of us outgrow these episodes
once the brain has matured sufficiently to regulate sleep cycles. In many
cases a hereditary pattern emerges but not always.
