I was and possible still am. My dad had to put a chain on the front door that was high enough for me not to reach. Our neighbour found me outside in the snow in my nighty. I also climbed out a window (frontunately onto a veranda).

More recently I was sleeping in a different room to my boyfriend as I had a really bad cold. I got up and went back to our bed, but had no pillow, as it was in the other room. After wrestling Craig's pillow from under his head he shouted at me and sent me back to the other room. I got out of bed and spat the words "make sure the phasers are set to stun" and left.

relaxing before bed, and not playing computer games etc can help with sleep walking.

^ Lol at the phaser thing!

My brother used to sleepwalk a bit, one time he got out of bed, went into the living room and peed in the corner. I'm pretty sure he's grown out of it now though.

My aunrie still does it. She once ended up on a hotel balcony which is a bit scary. Hopefully he does grow out of it.

Oops, I meant Auntie.

Also, somambulism is such a cool word. I learnt it from the Cabinet of Dr Caligari, which is also really cool.

Dodgy trailer, because embedding a 1 hour youtube clip is stupid:

lol deb.

a couple of times it's been hilarious, but mostly it's just a reason for me to stay up until at least 1am to be sure he's settled for the night.

yeah me too johnno. we watched it in film class at uni.

That's exactly where I saw it too. Uni was good for something after all.

i used to be a mega sleepwalker. i would mostly just wake up really really late at night and show up at the door of my parents room and my mom would wake up and shriek or something and tell me to go back to bed.

but this one time i guess i woke up and turned on all the lights in the house (i guess i'm still afraid of the dark when i sleepwalk?) and fell asleep in the basement. this was on the same night my mom apparently had a vivid nightmare about robbers coming into our house so she was really frightened by all the lights being on until she found me sleeping on the sofa.

i learned the word somnabulist from the olldd incubus song "vitamin"

and no, ive never slept walk that i know of... but i roll around alot in my sleep...

i used to be one as well :P idk what i would do but i would always wake up somewhere other than my bed.

My parents and a couple of visiting guests watched me walk into the kitchen, step on the garbage can foot pedal and pee inside it. All the while, my mother was asking, John, what are you doing?

I was definitely a sleep walker. When I was younger I once walked all the way downstairs and stood in my parents room laughing in the doorway.

Freshman year of college I went to San Diego to visit my grandparents and got tired, so I went to bed earlier than everyone else. When my parents came back to go to their room, I was standing in the hallway. my mom asked me "Rolf, didn't you go to bed" and I said "I haven't gone to bed yet" and she said "I thought you were tired, and I said "I was, so I went to sleep" and she said "Then why did you say you hadn't?" And from there on I just mumbled so they knew I was asleep.

I used to sleepwalk. Maybe get a front door latch high enough that he can't reach it so he doesn't wander outside. I recently read about a kid who unlocked the door an got outside and then was hit by a car (luckily he was okay).

Never was a sleep walker. My best friend was. I guess the most memorable incident was when he woke up 15 blocks away from his home in his underwear down at the lumber mill.

He was a weird kid.

i'm going to buy a door chain this morning. i could do without the stress.
apparently it's most common to sleepwalk between 11pm and 1am, which is definitely what he does, and i rarely go to bed before 1 so i can catch him most of the time, but once i'm asleep nothing wakes me.

My roommate was apparently a sleepwalker in his youth but not now.

I've never been a sleepwalker. I do talk in my sleep sometimes.

I tried to leave my house when I was a kid. I got open the front door, but the screen was jammed and I apparently tried to pry it open for a bit before calling it a night and falling asleep on the couch.

yeah i was never a sleepwalker.

but i still do talk in my sleep occasionally.

most of the time i yell about pie.

i had night tremors... it was terrifying

worse for other people around men though, who thought i was completely possessed!

I used to be a sleepwalker as well. Most often I would just wake up in one of the two guest bedrooms. Although, I once woke up in my closet and another time I was on the deck, but I think I walked through all the rose bushes because I had thorns and scratches all over me when I woke up.

And my cousins tell me that one of my aunts once got up, went to the kitchen, got a knife and then roamed around the great room mumbling "I'm not going to eat the chicken" in German (she's a vegetarian). They were pretty freaked.

that's awesome. it's no wonder the idea of zombies exists. i wonder how many sleepwalkers were killed in the dark ages for suspected possesion or something.

nope, i was never a sleepwalker i don't think.

but...
my family and i used to play pranks on each other a lot. one time i woke my brother up late at night and told him it was time to get up for school. he got up all fast and in a hurry and i told him i was joking but he didn't stop what he was doing. i yelled at him and he kept going. it was weird. and then i followed him to the bathroom to see what he was going to do and then he looked at me, turned away from the toilet and pissed all over the wall. i yelled at him "what are you doing?" and then he looked down, snapped out of it, and starting crying in a panic. he had no idea what he was doing! and then my mom yelled at him for peeing all over the wall and the floor.

i felt bad.

lesson learned: don't mess with a sleepwalker!

my daughter totally sleep walks on a very regular basis.
She tends to grab all the covers off her bed and walk around with them. One time she did this and proceeded to tell me her coat was so heavy! haha! Another time she was hell bent on me getting her bike out for her. I was like, no baby, it's 1am....she was pissed!!
She talks like she's so serious but barely ever makes sense. It's totally creepy sometimes and when I try to turn her around and send her back to her room she is wicked strong trying to resist me....total weirdness!! I used to get freaked out really bad, but my Mom told me I did the same thing....and I out grew it :)

one time i thought i woke up to go to the toilet to pee coz i badly needed to go. So i was there peeing, and it felt so good to let it go. Then i felt a warm sensation and realized i was peeing in my pants, ON THE BED! i never left it. weird. maybe it was an out-of-body experience

My old roommate talks in his sleep, which was funny. I often, if I was having enough trouble sleeping, would engage him in conversation.

He is a math major, and most of his dreams were weird fantastic stories that often involved numbers and followed the basic form of a logic proof.

I'm a total sleep walker. I'll wake up in different beds/rooms and such.

there was one time my bro woke up in the middle of the night when we were camping, I was still awake reading so looked up to see what he was doing. He got up out his sleeping bag then scratched at the side of the tent trying to find the zip, he couldn't open it so he just started pissing against the door until I shouted at him and he woke up. So freaky.

Also I don't think I ever sleepwalked myself though I have vague memories of going downstairs in the middle of the night and doing the washing up before being woken up by my mum.. though it's so vague it could've been a childhood dream or something.

I thought this was about julia.

I barricaded myself beneath my bed on a night i dreamt of being locked in my closet by a robber.

deboraborialis on Dec 12 '09 at 7:15am
"make sure the phasers are set to stun"

Epic Gold

someone I use to know faked sleepwalking (walked off the fucking side of an Icebreaker (while it was in port) in the middle of the night... no lie)

in order to get out of the Coast Guard.

apparently at that time at least there was no way to prove if he was truly sleep walking or not so they has to let him out .

sonmambulans

er. . . sonmambulism

My old roommate used to sleepwalk, and I'd wake up to her just standing in my doorway. It was so fucking creepy. She also used to hide her pants in her sleep. They were usually in her bookshelf, or under her pillows.

the only time I think I ever did was when our upstairs bathroom was under construction, like the floor was totally gone. I was a little kid and I went in to use it and fortunately my parents saw me and woke me up before I walked through the floor.

as a kid, basically every morning I would wake up at the foot of my bed. I also rolled out of bed onto the floor a lot.

I still sleep with the covers pulled up over my head.

while researching sleepwalking last night i also discovered there's a condition called sexsomnia, which is characterised by sexual touching, thrusting, and pretty much anything erotic you can think of, all while sleeping. it's totally sleepsexing. if i don't have it i'd love to know how to get it. or how to give someone it.

one night, i heard one of my kids get outa bed and head toward the bathroom.
i didn't hear anything that sounded like he was going pee, so i got up and the door was open and he was peeing in the trash can.
lol

Leeee-YAWN!

shakethesheets on Dec 12 '09 at 8:45pm
as a kid, basically every morning I would wake up at the foot of my bed. I also rolled out of bed onto the floor a lot.

I still sleep with the covers pulled up over my head.

can you breathe under there? :( I always used to freak when my head got covered because I thought I'd suffocate

haha yeah I breathe fine - just a sheet, not loads of blankets or anything :)

boyfriend makes fun of me for it, guess it's a little awkward to wake up next to

I have a cousin who eats in his sleep. He has done it for many years and I think he still does it sometimes even though he's tried different medications and treatments.

i sleepwalked once i think. I need to take a wizz, went into the bathroom, walked around in it and eventually pissed in the sink!!

I remember now:
I had just got my first computer, like 10 years ago or so. I was pretty obsessed about it, changing icons, themes, wallpapers, sounds. Then I went camping for a couple of days. When I got back, really tired, I fell asleep on the couch. Someone told me to go to my bed, so I went to the bathroom (still asleep) and started to look for the mouse, mumbling something like "who changed the configuration?". Then I woke up and realized it wasn't the monitor in front of me, but my own reflection in the mirror, looking like a total moron.

My boyfriend got up in the night and was trying to open the window. He was using the handle like a door handle though, so it wouldn't open. I asked what the hell he was doing. He grunted, turned around, and went to the bathroom for a pee. He was bollock naked and had to lift up the blind to get to the window handle. I hope there was no one in the street.

my little brother sleepwalks and gets night terrors sometimes.

once, at the cabin, he got out of bed and was convinced my father had burned the house down and killed me. He went and got my dad (who had a flashlight) and was pointing at me (asleep) saying "look what you did, you killed her" and crying.
My dad was trying to wake him up but he was soooo out of it. He eventually just went back to bed, and didn't remember a thing in the morning.

He does that once in a while; it's kind of like acting out one's dreams.

yes... I don't know if I was when I was younger (I think my parents would have noticed), but I am now (although not so much since I sleep in a lofted bed right now). My roommate last year would always tell me about it, though. I laugh, tell stories, say things that don't make any sense, carry on conversations, and give people dirty looks.

Anyway, I did something kind of terrible to my roommate last year... during the first week of school, she had a dude come over and they had sex while I was "asleep." The only problem was that I woke up five minutes before they started and I had to lie there and try to cover my ears/turn away awkwardly and pretend to be asleep the whole time. I think she kind of knew I might've been awake, so she apologized awhile later. About two weeks later, she and I were in the room and I was asleep. She was rustling around on her bed and I sat up and looked her in the eyes and said "WOULD YOU AND YOUR FRIEND LIKE SOME ALONE TIME?! All you have to do is ask."

And then I went back to sleep.

So apparently I am a passive-aggressive somnambulist.

I also left the room a couple of times, but I guess I came back pretty fast.

Realistically, I'm pretty creeped out by my nighttime wanderings, because for the most part no one can tell me what I've been doing and I don't even know what's happened. So I've probably done tons of shit I don't even know about. Plus it gets worse when I'm sleep-deprived or stressed out. Ack.

I have a friend who told me that one time when he was a kid he woke up completely naked with his pajamas folded neatly at the corner of his bed.

I don't actually think that helps anyone, I just really want people to know that I have a friend who got molested in his sleep.

(probably)

hahaha pear

I fold clothes in my sleep sometimes. Like, pick them up from off of the floor, fold them, and stack them.