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- synystar, on 10/12/2007, -1/+107I woke up one night to find my ex-girlfriend repeatedly walking into a wall in our closet. I grabbed her and she started flailing her arms at me. The next time I found her sleepwalking I decided that it would be safer, and more fun, to try to have a conversation with her. She tried to sell me tickets to a musical. When I refused, she rebutted. I'd never heard her pitch before that night, but I never questioned her ability as a salesperson after that.
- diggfinity, on 10/12/2007, -0/+49Just reading your comment about waking to find her walking into a wall in the closet really creeps me out. Wasn't that disturbing?
- FearNLoathing, on 10/12/2007, -2/+45She needs wallhax
- diggfinity, on 10/12/2007, -0/+28I do it every night exactly as you just described it. But without the 'arms' or 'sleepwalking' thing.
- TomFrost, on 10/12/2007, -0/+27I agree. I'm a chronic sleepwalker myself, and getting woken up is the scariest, most disorienting experience I've ever had. But there are cases where that's better than the alternative. I'm a stage performer, and I lock all of my equipment up in trunks using combination locks. One night before a show the next morning, in my sleep, I changed all of these combinations to something random.
Trust me. Sometimes, it's better to deal with being woken up. - TomFrost, on 10/12/2007, -0/+23Not even close ;-). Normally, when you sleepwalk, it's because of something you think is *urgent*. Urgent enough to give you the adrenaline to get up from a dead sleep. And more often than not, it's something you need to tell other people about. I come from a sleepwalking family. When my older sister worked as a babysitter, she'd commonly burst in my room at 2am and tell me she lost the kids and she needs my help to find them. My mother warned the family that Native Americans were attacking the house, I've gotten everyone out of bed because the basement was on fire. Serious stuff :)
- Cyre, on 10/12/2007, -4/+26I'll believe it's not a myth when the Mythbusters bust it.
- gravedigg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+19@jsreid
No, just justification. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+19to the best of my understanding, they are zombies.
- Mandeep, on 10/12/2007, -2/+21Agreed. Sounds like a scene from the Exorcist or something. I probably would have tried nudging her or something but with a bat in my other hand.
Haha, alien3456 gets me everytime and I still laugh. - shortarabguy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16TomFrost, is your mother insane or was it not that weird for Native Americans to attack your home when your mom was younger? lol
- DurkaMcDurk, on 10/12/2007, -6/+20people... just block alien... so then i wont have to wade through your comments about him...
- Fracture98, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13What do they call it when she falls asleep during sex?
- JorgeGonzalez, on 10/12/2007, -3/+16Sleepwalking is the sole reason I live in a dorm. So easy to get a sleepwalking chick into your bed.
- infimprob, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14If he did the punching how is it that he got pwned?
- hummer13, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12davy here is another one...
a little background: When I was younger I would sleep walk all the time. Except there's a catch. I would sleep walk to what I believed would be the bathroom and proceed to unleash my urination wherever I was at the moment. So my parents would wake up all the time and find random wet spots in the hallway, on the stairs, in my dad's office, or even some random corner. Took them awhile to figure it out but they were sure it was me when I walked into my parents room one night and stood right next to my mom and pulled down my pants. Luckily for her she is a light sleeper and she woke up before I gave her a golden shower.
Eventually I stopped, can't remember exactly when, but I think it was around age 9 or so. Anyhow, the next 8 or 9 years were pretty quite until one night freshman year of college I got piss drunk and passed out early. After being passed out for awhile my roommates see me get out of bed, leave our room and are like "WTF". I return in like 20 seconds lay back down and return to the dream world. All of the sudden my roomies hear 'stomp! stomp! stomp!' 'pound! pound! pound!' and get up to answer the door only to see one of our buddies pissed as hell and asking where I was. He proceeds to tell them that I walked into their room said "hey whats up guys" (they were all sleeping mind you) then turned whipped it out and pissed all over his computer desk chair thankfully missing his computer. However, it turns out his pea coat was over the back of the chair and just happened to be his grandpa's military coat that had been passed down to him. Thankfully I didn't get my ass beat in a drunken coma I call sleep, but boy did I feel like an ass when I woke up in the morning and was told the chain of events from the night before. All hungover I had to walk down to this guys room and apologize and offer to get his coat dry cleaned. He seemed all right considering his roommate had just pissed in the box fan last week while it was running.
The moral of the story... not quite sure. Should you wake up a sleepwalker... depends. But if he is pulling down his pants... prob. yes. - gravedigg, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12I spy a legal loophole.
EDIT: Found it: When sexual activity takes place while sleepwalking, it is called somnambulistic sexual behaviour, sleepwalking sexual behaviour, or sexsomnia. - jdc760, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10"The prime time for sleepwalking is about one to 2-3 hours into sleep."
So it's really just 1-3 hours, right? - gfixler, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10A few years ago, Fry's had a $60 cabled IR (quasi night-vision) video camera, w/ something like 100' of cable. I also had an ATI TV-Wonder card which could record about 8 hours in about 700MB. I used both of these to film me sleeping, to see what I do at night. All I did was roll over to my opposite side every half hour, almost like clockwork. Still, for about $100 or so, you can see what you do at night, too. It's probably even cheaper now.
- DutchGuilder, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10My father and brother were sleep walkers. Actually a better name would "trance walkers" because they were not sleeping while walking/cleaning/searching in the middle of the night, but they were definitely not conscious either. They seemed to be seeing invisible things while completely unaware of the people and environment around them. Their eyes would look right past you and they would try to walk through you. Sometimes they were calm, sometimes agitated, sometimes terrified. "Waking them up" isn't accurate either, because it took about 5 minutes of interacting with them until they gradually became conscious, but with no recollection of what they had been doing. Weird stuff.
- Wailord, on 10/12/2007, -4/+13@ alien3456
It's times like these that I'm happy there's a Block button. =) - Somniis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Dude, that's ***** creepy.
- shortarabguy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10"When sexual activity takes place while sleepwalking, it is called somnambulistic sexual behaviour, sleepwalking sexual behaviour, or sexsomnia."
Wow, I never imagined that they'd give sleep sex the dignity of its own cool name... Although I can't help but feel like "sexsomnia" might have been the name of some porno... - dominasian, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7i have been told that once when i was sleepwalking( i do that quite a bit theres even a word for it somnambulist), i was woken up by my friend that i hit hit in the face and gave him a bloody nose. he says it was worth it though because of the fun they had when i was sleepwalking
- kavery, on 10/12/2007, -4/+11It would probably not be wise to live near Jack Bauer if you were a sleepwalker then I guess.
- kiantech, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9This one time at band camp...
- carterman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7I have walked in my sleep for as long as I can remember. As a kid, while at camp the counselors hung bells on my tent so I would not walk into the lake. I was never allowed to sleep on the top bunk. I have walked outside in the winter. One time knocking on the neighbors door (scaring the ever living crap out of myself and the neighbor). I have attempted to climb furniture. Scared every single baby sitter I ever had as a kid. Even now as an adult I still walk. I wake up in places I did not go to sleep. I have actually been caught attempting to re-arrange furniture in my house. I can attest to having a feeling of dread, fear, shock and sometimes embarrassment when awoken. I would say it is best to not wake a sleep walker if possible.
- hereisandy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6@fracture98
Bored - Dingle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Pulled this from an article I found:
Sexual behaviour during a sleep automatism can vary from explicit sexual vocalisations, to violent masturbation, to complex sexual acts including anal, oral and vaginal penetration. A recent case in England is reported where the defendant was acquitted on 3 charges of rape on the basis of automatism due to somnambulistic sexual behaviour. - manova, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5It has been tried as a defense for murder several times.
http://sleepdisorders.about.com/od/sleepwalkingandtalkin1/a/moremurder.htm - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5"he says it was worth it though because of the fun they had when i was sleepwalking"
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EDIT: Wow, I meant for that to be the MSN thumbs up... funny how that works... - jsreid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4is that giving you ideas?
- vhold, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I sleep walked a number of times when I was very little.. apparently one time I went out of the house, down the back staircase.. over to the neighbors house.. their front door was unlocked, went into their home and started playing with their front room lights. They got so freaked out they called the cops and didn't come downstairs to see what it was. I have no memory of any of it ever happening, just what my parents told me.
- infimprob, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4You are such a digger (read nerd)
- cr4ft, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Today I stepped in the face of danger; I woke up a sleepwalker!
- sebth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Did anyone fallow the link "What is Alice in Wonderland syndrome?" on the article. That's also pretty scary.
- bakagaigin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Blocked
- jpease, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4To tell you the truth, I don't remember, as it's been over ten years since he died. But my chest still sags every time I happen to drive by his house, especially when I think of the continuing effect it has had on his parents.
- buadach, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3A few years ago I used to work on a cruise ship and awoke to find myself standing naked with an erection in a part of the ship I did not recognise. I eventually found my way back to my cabin (I was two decks down and at the other end of the ship) but could not get in as I didn't have my key so I had to call security and wait for them to come and open my door whilst I stood naked in the corridor cupping my privates and feeling really stupid. I am just glad that I didn't sleep walk up a deck into the passenger areas. There were about 4000 people on board but only two people reported seeing me thankfully.
- jpease, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5
A friend of mine died while sleepwalking one night during they year after he graduated from high school. He fell down the stairs and broke his neck. - matrixbandit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Ironically, I really need to get some sleep. When I first read this: "Other causes in adults include sleep deprivation, alcohol intake, and drug intake." I read "sheep" instead of "sleep" and was mildly confused. It does sound correct in a little bo peep kind of way.
- kodek, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3@FearNLoathing
I dugg you up, but for the record, wall hacks are for SEEING through walls, not walking through them. - darksydxx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I think some of you people are misconstruing sleep walking to half awake having to take a piss and not concentrating.
- RDRDreg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1didnt jack osborne kill his mums dog that was sleeping in his bed
- jeffmon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I remember when I was young, while sleepwalking, I peed in the sink in front of my brother and his friend.
At least that's what they told me. - cyssero, on 04/18/2009, -1/+2davy2002a, this is digg, not MSN Messenger. ^o)
- nkthen, on 05/13/2008, -0/+1Wow... That's scary. http://www.personalinjuryhelponline.net
- Soup4Brains, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1No. If you watch the end of that episode, they show that the whole thing was scripted.
- brikman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1A friend of mine had an old friend over one night, the man got up in the night for his final sleep walk, the next morning my friend found his body at the bottom of the basement stairs with a broken neck.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2For Chuck Norris to sleepwalk, he'd first have to sleep. Everyone knows that Chuck Norris doesn't sleep, he waits.
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