also guys i watched a program where a guy got out of bed drove to his parents in laws house and walked and stood in the bedroom (he unlucoked door with spare key) and just stood there with a knife. and you know you should never try and wake sum1 while they are sleep walking? well they did, he stabbed them both to death and went outside and started to drive home. Halfway there he woke up and started swerving and wondered what the hell was happening and then saw blood on his hands and went to the nearest police station and told them that he though he had done something terrible. They found out what had happened later and after tests concluded that he was actually asleep the whole time Amazing isnt it..and not in a good way. Ice
There was a pretty big case a while back about someone who dragged his wife out of the house and beat her to death by bashing her head repeatidly off the kerb outside their house. He claimed he was sleeping the whole time and walked free from court. _C
"A teenage sleepwalker was rescued after being found asleep on the arm of a 130ft crane" Damn battlefield 2 sniper/campers =\ If that would ever happen to me i'd go sue EA Games for making me too exited over their game thus causing possible danger to me... Woot you can sue anyone in US. As for me, I do not know anyone who sleepwalks. I though once saw a sleppwaker walking on a roof at night when I was driving thru Belarus.
Woke up one night to see one of my mates standing there staring at me (I was sleeping in the easy chair out in his livingroom) and asked him what the hell he was doing. Told me I'd gotten up, emptied the drawer in the kitchen, and stabbed every knife in the house into his bedroom door, and then gone back to sleep. I didnt remember any of it, but sure enough, the knives were stuck in that door for a few days.
I've done that! Drove me crazy. Both times I did, I was in high school. Once I had stayed up all night the day before, so I crashed at like 8pm, and at 11:30 I was up and getting ready for school all in a rush, apparently, as if I thought I was late. When I snapped to, it was like I wast totally awake except for the logic process of time, which was totally gone.
But if I get this right sleepwalking is when you're still asleep with your eyes closed right how can you just walk around doing all this stuff surely something like a closed door would stop you right ???
IIRC it all happens on a sub-concise level. When my mom claimed i stabbed her, i would have to of had to open my bedroom door, walk down the hall, go into the kitchen, open a draw and grab the knife and then walk back down the hall to get to my moms room, then open the door and proceed to attack.
You don't sleepwalk with your eyes closed. You are operating on a different level of consciousness. Avoiding walking into solid objects actually happens on a pre-conscious, cerebellar level (which is why you can drive or walk down the street thinking of whatever yet automatically avoid walking into walls). The same with some "utilisation behaviours", where being confronted with an object automatically triggers a behaviour program (using the object) in the frontal lobe. This is why you can get dressed without thinking too much about it or can absentmindedly take a sip from your cup of coffee while reading the papers. This is alos why people put strange things in the fridge for instance: the "putting something away" program gets crossed with the "putting in the fridge" program, so to speak. Then there are complex partial seizures, in which you temporarily lose consciousness but continue behaving, often in a "stereotypical" manner (i.e. repetitive, undirected behaviours), e.g. people continue walking (while avoiding objects) but are not actually aware of what is happening; or continue performing an action like chewing, or rubbing, without meaningful direction. Again utilisation behaviour can occur: To see a bath tub is to climb in, to see a light switch is to turn it, to see a spinning spice rack is to turn it etc. A lot of our behaviour and thinking processes in the brain are automatic. This is kinda handy because it frees up our conscious attention to do other things. However sometimes these processes can escape conscious inhibition and run away with themselves...
yeah i dont sleep walk but i do talk in my sleep. but my brother sleep walks and talks at the same time. if funny as hell
Yer I used do it quite often (not much recently), after im told I did It I can normally remeber the part of my dream I did it as it vaguely looks like or is exactly the same as the place I did it. I can see stuff as it is but its also merged with imaginary stuff, sometimes I know im sleepwalkin and actually talk to people or try and wake myself up . Some other odd sleep related things... When I was little if I ever had a nightmare I used to be able to wake myself up at any point by clapping my hands twice in the dream and id wake up immediatly Its only ever happened twice and was when I was young... Basically I woke up all of a sudden and was totally paralised, couldnt feel anything couldnt move, not even my eyelids, I tried to scream for my parents but nothing came out of my mouth, aswel as that I could hardly breath. I thought I was dead or was going to die, then all of a sudden after about 30 secounds (felt like forever) everything went to normal and the shouting I could only hear in my head was actually coming out of my mouth... Scary as hell Read about it here: http://www.csicop.org/doubtandabout/sleep/ From the above site "Our bodies are paralyzed while we undergo REM sleep, and for good reason (lest we act out our dreams and injure ourselves). But in some small number of cases we can actually start to wake up before paralysis wears off, and yet still remain in a dreaming state. What results is hallucination, often of some extremely scary stuff. It appears that humans have always experienced sleep paralysis and sought to explain it, resulting in well known stories of incubi and succubi--demons thought to sexually attack people in their sleep--as well as related tales from other eras and cultures." When it hapened to me I did not halucinate, I was totally awake, which made it worse as you cant confuse it with a dream... For the record I aint no wierdo fool, just a bit odd
Never sleepwalked, but my friend talks in his sleep. Well actually he shouts/screams. I woke up one night and he was lying there screaming and reaching up, but with his eyes closed. Funny stuff.
Fibre, I've had that same experience several times, sometimes while dreaming, sometimes not, but I'm always aware that I'm in bed. I just start to panic, it's not fun to be in that situation. It's like you don't know if you'll ever get out of it. Edit: Just read that site. One time, I remember there was a man in black stabbing me in the leg with a dull knife, I could actually feel the pain.
MS Windows Mental Edition™. "How Mad Do You Want To Be Today?" @ FIBRE+: It's called "Sleep Paralysis" and is quite common. I have it too on occasion, but because I know what it is, I tend to just doze off again and wake up normally a minute later.
I havn't sleepwalked but i do laugh in my sleep and once my bf tried to wake me up and he said i just started talking about "paying him back on w"... i was stuttering the word starting with w! and i never stutterd in my life lol wierd. oh and ive had that sleep paralysis 3 or 4 times a few years ago its the worst feeling ive ever had in my life, its like i knew i was awake and i could talk in my head ok but could i hell as move or open my eyes plus the scariest bit was i could hear someone breathing really heavily and i was home alone thats before i knew about the condition, it really freaked me out oh and a really embarrasing story lol when i was 14 or summet i had a really vivid dream of peeing on the loo... only to wake up mid way thru peein all over me bed
I've never sleep walked and I don't think I sleep talk either. But fairly often when I'm just getting to sleep I get the very vivid feeling fo falling over / off something. It's quite bizare because it feels so real.
That is your brain disconnecting from your sensory input as you fall asleep. This can give you a sensation of freefall (it is also when your muscles start relaxing that this is when your head hits the keyboard). Sometimes the freefall sensation results in an automatic saving reaction and your body sort of jolts/startles awake.
on a school trip to france we had to sleep in rooms with 3 other people, in the morning one of them sat up in bed and stayed talking about how many cups of sugar it takes to get to the moon:S and another one was talking about not wanting to ride a pony, very strange stuff. there was a program on awhile back about this sleep stuff, like lashing out violently in ur sleep and what not, they had a cam in a guys room and he was pirched on his bed looking at the cam and screaming weird things at it, quite freaky stuff
I've had that "landing" sensation a few times as well just as I'm about to get to sleep. It's really weird, because I'm just lying there and suddenly I jolt down my bed a bit. I once did it about 5 times in one night. Really annoying. Also, why is it that if you stay up all night, you feel fine untill the next night, but if you get one or two hours sleep, you feel nackered? I find it really annoying if I suddenly realise that it's 5am already and I haven't had any sleep, and I have to decide wether to sleep for two or three hours or to just stick it out and go to bed an hour or two earlier the next night. _C
I've heard / read that this "condition" combined with lucid dreaming is thought to be the main cultprit of alien abduction stories.
