Moving While Asleep?

[Elizabeth]

Who sleepwalks or moves around in their sleep?

I normally sleep as still as the grave, but last night my DH stayed up late watching a movie after I fell asleep. He said he got out of bed for a minute and I apparently took that opportunity to turn my body diagonally across the bed. He said he then tried to move me back over to my side of the bed, and in reaction, I started pushing his head repeatedly. He didn't mention if I was talking, but he figured I must be dealing with something pretty serious in my dream so he left me alone. He then tried to sleep on the sliver of bed that I had left for him until I rolled back to my side.

This really creeps me out.

[Chocolate Lover]

Really? Moving around isn't that uncommon. Sleepwalking into the pool might be but you didn't do that.

[Elizabeth]

I guess the moving around didn't creep me out as much as me pushing his head. It's kind of funny, but weird to think you can do things in your sleep and have no idea you did it.

[Chocolate Lover]

I had a kid in bed with me once almost push me off the bed before I woke up and caught myself. He was 4 at the time. lol

I guess I'm just used to very active sleepers. It is funny what you do and don't recall.

[Bob Ross]

On a related note, sleep's a good time to make up stuff about your SO and then blame and make them feel guilty for it, in order to gain the upper hand. Good examples include that they were crying out their ex's name, or that they divulged the location of the bodies. Not that I'd ever do this, because it only seems to work for women.

[ysi]

I volunteered for a sleep study once-interesting experience. How many of you wear pajamas to bed? How many of you go to sleep with eight electrodes glued to your skin, all over your body, attached to a plethora of wires that tether you to the bed? How many of you go to bed on a rubber covered mattress (don't answer that dont wanna know.) How many of you sleep on your back and never change position? How many of you go to bed with only one very flat very hard plastic covered pillow? How many of you go to bed on a hospital mattress? How many of you go to bed in a bed high enough off the floor that your feet dangle from it? How many of you go to bed and leave all the doors unlocked and have complete strangers sleeping in "bedrooms" all around you? How many of you get up at least once in the night to pee?

Most unnatural night of sleep I have ever had. In addition to all those challenges they manipulated the temp in the room-cool then dry/stuffy then back to cool when I complained. I went to bed 1030pm lost my temper around 4am (they came running in to protect their wires lol) and fell asleep ~5am. They didnt wake me up till 1030am because they felt sorry for me and let me sleep over :-)

My normal experience is to go to bed and drop into deep sleep within a minute, then around 3am I start getting up half asleep to pee every 2hrs, and when my blood pressure is acting up, the headache starts around 5am. Recently I have experienced vertigo and exploding head syndrome in bed, so I fully expect my childhood sleepwalking to resume one of these days. I am not sure if this counts but my Dad and I both make unconcious foot movements. It's wierd to watch when he is sound asleep he is bouncing his feet to an imagined beat. I do the same thing and have since childhood.

[DebMD (banned)]

People can do some compplex activities while sleep walking....like cooking meals on the stove, going to the fridge and getting stuff to make a sandwhich and then eating it.

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[DebMD (banned)]

Conditions for a good nites sleep everything must be just so:

Temperature-not too hot or cold
Not too humid
Not too much 'breeze'/aeration
Not too much light
Not too many worrisome thoughts
Not too noisy sounds
Not too hungry or full
Bladder not too full
Not too much body discomfort(like sore throat, cough,etc)
Sleeping surface has to be right.
etc.

Sleep can be elusive.

[Colleenz]

I am a sleep talker/walker. I have freaked out room mates, and DH just has fun with it. I don't remember a thing. Apparently I will appear completely concious and have nonsensical conversations (like insisting what a nice day it is up here in this tree). Then after a few minutes I lay back down and go to sleep.

I don't sleep walk often, and usually it is when I am under a lot of stress. The worst was during finals one semester when I was working on my Masters. I was traveling for business, sleep walked out of my hotel room and woke up in the hotel hallway with no key - oops.

[Anne_in_VA]

As a kid I walked and talked in my sleep. Now I do talk in my sleep occasionally, but only when I'm under a lot of stress. DH tells me that I usually mumble and don't make any sense and I don't remember what I've said when I wake up.

[pig]

My wife used to have a lot of "night terrors". She'll wake up pop up really fast and start screaming like I'm trying to kill her. They used to happen a lot when we were dating but they'be become uncommon now. It's really freaky though. It's really hard to wake her up when she's in that state but when I manage to get her awake she has no memory of what she was doing.

[Mad Dawg Wiccan]

I had an acid-trip experience with Ambien once. I'll never take it again.

[kgb18]

As a kid I walked and talked in my sleep. Now I do talk in my sleep occasionally, but only when I'm under a lot of stress. DH tells me that I usually mumble and don't make any sense and I don't remember what I've said when I wake up.

Same here. I walked into a door once in my sleep when I was a teenager. That is a terrible way to wake up. I'm lucky I didn't break my nose, but I was black and blue the next morning.

[Apple]

I sleep on my stomach but move around a lot--I hate pajamas for this reason, I just get them twisted around me so I don't wear them. I tend to do the "jerk" thing right when I'm falling asleep--it sucks when makes me fully awake again.

DS will sleep walk on occasion. The scariest time he did it was in the SF airport. We'd flown non-stop from Germany and had a 5 hour layover. My sister was with us and was yakking on the phone, DS was asleep and I figured with her not going to sleep any time soon (she talks forever) I could take a short nap. When I woke up about 20 minutes later, she was asleep and DS was gone. His bag and glasses were still under the bench so I thought he might have gone to the bathroom. I asked a guy to go check and see if there was a kid in there--there wasn't. So I checked out the bookstore and when he wasn't there I started to panic (he was 9 or 10 at the time). Finally found him a gate or two away headed back my direction--he said he couldn't remember anything, just that he fell asleep on the bench and then woke up down the hall. Fortunately we were only two gates from the end of that section (a deadend) or he could have ended up anywhere!

[pig]

RJ you sleep in the nude then? Me too! Good thing we don't sleep together!

[Cheesy FL-Vol]

Moving While Asleep?

Who sleepwalks or moves around in their sleep?

In the past week, this seems to be my condition during the day. I think I am functioning solely on coffee.

[Artemis Windsong]

Someone asked me one time why their SO jumped around in bed so much. Long story short, they were night seizures from a head injury as a teen. After years of hunting and pecking for the correct medication, I think it's controlled since nothing more has been said about it. If no one in the family has had experience with this type of problem, you don't know what to look for. His Dad had a medical background and didn't see it. That is a difficult disorder to live with.

For night terrors I had a recurring dream that I could not sleep unless I went through a series of touching certain things in a certain order. One night I had forgotten the order and woke up. I won't say the event started it in case there are lurking wicked people who would try it on someone.

More scary was my GS said I went to the McD's where his SO worked and just stood there staring at the door. I did not respond when talked to like I was hypnotized. She was let go that same night. They came to my house and found both DH sound asleep in his chair and me standing staring at the wall at 8:15 p.m. Waking us took a bit of effort.

Cheesy - have you tried that circadian sleep where you sleep maybe 20 minutes every four hours. The sleep is supposed to be very deep and then the person doesn't have to sleep a full 8 hours in a row.

ysi - Did you get paid for the sleep study or did you pay them? Sounds unpleasant.

[pig]

Arty, did you ever experience sleep paralysis? Only had them a few times as a kid but they were so fricken scary I remember them to this day. Can't breath and I'm going to die but I can't move or call out for help............

[lulubean]

Yeah I will be moving when my kids are asleep one night.

[NomoreDramaQ1015]

DH tries to hold conversations in his sleep. Once he got very mad at me and accused me of "never listening". Next morning he had no recollection of the conversation.

He's also punched me, slapped me, kicked me, elbowed me, picked my nose (would love to know what he was dreaming about), STOMPED on me (he was dreaming about fire ants) . . .I've been debating on sleeping with a football helmet on. As it is I sleep facing away from him just in case he lashes out, otherwise I may end up with a broken nose one day!

[pig]

He's also punched me, slapped me, kicked me, elbowed me, picked my nose (would love to know what he was dreaming about), STOMPED on me

CALL THE POLICE NOW and GET OUT OF THE HOUSE!!! NO woman should put up with that kind of ABUSE!!!!!!

[NomoreDramaQ1015]

CALL THE POLICE NOW and GET OUT OF THE HOUSE!!! NO woman should put up with that kind of ABUSE!!!!!!

I know!

Last time he did it I was half asleep and I apparently hit him back! He then has the nerve to get mad at ME for waking him up!

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Apr 7, 2011 9:42:53 GMT -5 @pig said:

Arty, did you ever experience sleep paralysis? Only had them a few times as a kid but they were so fricken scary I remember them to this day. Can't breath and I'm going to die but I can't move or call out for help............

OMG! I had that too! You aren't kidding that they're scary!!!

And I am not a sleepwalker but I did sleepwalk a couple of times in HS. Unfortunately, my bedroom was in the attic at the time (nothing like waking up while falling down the stairs ).

[CarolinaKat]

Apparently in HS when i would get too hot in my sleep, I'd get up, walk across the hall cut the AC lower until I heard the unit turn on and then get back in bed. I have no memory of this, but apparently ~60 or so the unit comes on, so my dad was going nuts figuring out why it was so low.