Do you know someone who sleepwalks ? Did you ever get a chance to witness it ?

@voldrox (7191)
India
August 26, 2009 12:41pm CST
I was wondering how it would be when someone sleep walks.... just popped in my mind from somewhere, i would want to watch, it might be scary but fun as well . . . . . So do you know someone who sleepwalks ? Have you ever seen them walking that way at night ?
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@vingyan06 (2486)
• Malaysia
26 Aug 09
Hello Voldrox. Nice discussion. I had never had this problem before. But my mumtold me that my sister was a sleepwalker when she was young, at the age of 10, and that was the time I was 15 years old. I witness once before! She woke up in the middle of night and keep washing her hands in the toilet. That was the time we were watching television and felt so weird that she kept washing her hands suddenly. We asked her some questions and she did not answer us. Then she even take a pail to hold the water, LOL. The next day morning, we asked what she had did last night and she can't even remember. We told her she was sleeps walk but she could not believe what we said. Maybe we should record down in the video and showed her as a proof, . Happy mylotting!
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@voldrox (7191)
• India
27 Aug 09
hehe yeah vingyan you better record and show them as proof... and when the person will see that they will like this.... sure interesting, even i have heard that they never respond when sleep walking, your sister might have been wondering how she could done all that when she doesn't even remember a thing... hehe thanks for sharing, have a good day and take care
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@voldrox (7191)
• India
27 Aug 09
hi again vingyan . . . Well i went through some of the posts later and came to know that they might be and are mostly aware that you are there but mostly they don't reply or say anything, and sometimes they do... in most cases you can be friendly to them and guide them back to their bed and the sleepwalker will feel as if you are in their dream, so i don't think there is much problem... yeah but you have to watch out if they have some really dangerous intentions, like you said going to the kitchen and all, just be careful... but in most cases it is rather peaceful and actually funny!
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@vingyan06 (2486)
• Malaysia
27 Aug 09
Hello Voldrox, nice to hear from you again. I had never know a sleepwalker is not aware of things happen around them when they are sleepwalking! You think it is dangerous if they walk into the kitchen and take something sharp, like knife, scissors? What happen if the kids is sleepwalking, it sounds more dangerous.
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@zoey7879 (3092)
• United States
26 Aug 09
I've known and seen two people who have done this... One a boy, when about 9, walked to the house next door and asked for a rope ... And the other was a little girl about 2 or 3 years old. She awoke in the middle of the night, when her mother asked what she was doing the girl said "Going potty"... the girl went for the fridge, opened up the crisper drawer and got ready to take a seat.. lol
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@voldrox (7191)
• India
27 Aug 09
wow talking about the girl, there is a very similar answer n the above response... hehe...wow strange things people tend to do while sleep walking.. although we have to take care what and where they go, it can really get scary at times, from all your responses i am learning that mostly young children sleep walk the most and adults not much.... thanks for sharing zoey and have a great day!
@miller1978 (1101)
• United States
26 Aug 09
I have a 9 year old son who does it. It's strange I have never seen him do it personally but when he stays at my mothers house he does it. She has rooms set up for the children and he will literally walk over to his dresser and throw everything all over his room while sleepwalking and then he will go into the kitchen, get something to eat, and when asked about it the next day he doesn't remember doing it.
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@voldrox (7191)
• India
26 Aug 09
oh Miller i haven't heard of someone that small walking around in sleep, a nine year old! you gotta watch out... well the funny part is that he goes to the kitchen to pick up something to eat
@chi2nasrin (1101)
• Malaysia
26 Aug 09
I have never seen anybody sleepwalk but I have a story about my cousin who used to sleepwalk. He would do whatever things that he did in that day when he sleepwalk. For example if he played a drum some time in that day, he would be making the playing drum action. It is easy to know what he was up to that day. One day when he was still a teenager, he got up and sleepwalk out of his room. And then he went to the living room where his father and other family members were watching TV. They knew he was sleepwalking and then just watch he was going to do. My cousin squatted down and held his two fingers to and away his mouth, he was doing the smoking gesture!! His father got angry and then woke him up, scolding him. My cousin tried to deny but his sleepwalking told the truth. It was very funny. One more story is about my best friend's sister. She doesn't always sleepwalk, but one day she sleepwalked, open the fridge door and then took down her pants. I think she wanted to pee. My friend quickly shouted and wake her up.... very funny.
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@voldrox (7191)
• India
27 Aug 09
Hehe... funny stories, how i wish i could witness someone sleep walk, they don't even open there eyes right? it could be scary to look at that way... i wonder how they walk everywhere here and there without actually seeing...freaky... thanks for sharing and have a good day chi2nasrin.
@jaiho2009 (39142)
• Philippines
26 Aug 09
Hello friend, Yes,i did,and this is not a make believe story. Long ago,i was about 17 yrs old and my cousin is about 11 yrs old. Back in our grandfather's hometown,it's a small town. My cousin was sleeping it is daytime,he was sleeping in our grandparents sofa near the window.Then,suddenly he woke up and walk downstairs.We just ignored him,then,after half an hour he came back with one of our neighbor. We wonder why our neighbor(a policeman)asks us if we knows that my cousins had a habit of sleepwalking. Sleepwalking?...we chorused(me,my auntie,my grandma,and one cousin)why? Then the policeman answered..becoz i found Arvin(that's my cousins name) walking with eyes close,i meet him walking so fast with eyes closed almost near the cemetery.(whew sounds scary) The cemetery is about 15 mins walk from our home. We were tongue tied...then my cousin begin his story. He is sleeping and dreamed that someone is calling him,he hear voices calling him and he followed those voices,that's all he can remembered. He was even so surprised to find himself on the road,he was awaken when our neighbor(the policeman who is patrolling that time saw him walking)called his name and ask where he is going.And to our neighbor's surprise too,to see my cousin walking with eyes close. From then on,we always take turns to look after my cousin when he is sleeping...whew...thanks it never happens again,but still he sleepwalks inside our house... He is married now and i haven't asked him if he still sleepwalks,i better ask him when i saw him and i can remember that event of his life
@voldrox (7191)
• India
27 Aug 09
ooh... jaiho i have to say that was a very interesting story, sleep walking, and towards the cemetery when someone was calling him in the dreams!.... wow that was a very interesting experience you had, i have never witnessed anyone sleep walking but would like to see someone, it's nice you all had taken care of him and i am sure now he must be doing fine... have a nice day jaiho and thanks for sharing something interesting, i hope to receive some more responses of this type
• India
26 Aug 09
Well i know some one who have a problem to sleepwalks.He is my friend's sister.one day, All of three that means me, my friend,and his little sister was watching a movie in my home. The movie was so boring that's why no one have interest to watch the movie my friends sister as sleeping on the chair and after a min. she was walking in the room i was too scared to watch that thing.......but its looks like more funny....
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@voldrox (7191)
• India
27 Aug 09
hehe... it sure might have been funny and scary at the same time, the only thing to be taken care of is that the person doesn't hurt themself while sleepwalking and we have to put an eye on them... thanks and have a nice day anulove
@metschica25 (5399)
• United States
27 Aug 09
Hey Hey!! My parents said when I was younger from about the time I was a teen from time to time I would wonder into their bedroom adn start talking and most times they could not make out what i was saying . The only thing that i see or hear now is my fiance sometimes tossing and turning and sometimes talking in his sleep and most times its because he is having a bad dream!
@voldrox (7191)
• India
28 Aug 09
I have to say metschica it sure does sound very funny...and yeah i have also talked to my friend while he was talking in his sleep, it sure is a lot of fun when he does that... thanks for sharing and a have a nice day metschica!
@_sketch_ (5742)
• United States
27 Aug 09
I have seen many people sleepwalking before and I used to do it often as a child as well. I have seen my brother and some friends do it. It is pretty funny. Sometimes it can get dangerous, but I have never actually witnessed anyone in that sort of situation before luckily. Usually when people sleepwalk, they will just walk around looking really dazed, staring off into nowhere. If you ask them what they are doing, they may or may not respond. If they do, it's usually just, "I don't know." or "Nothing." and they will typically go back to bed at that point. Perhaps that sort of makes them realize that they are asleep and they should return to bed. When people sleepwalk, they may or may not be aware of other people. I have talked to my parents many times while I was sleepwalking. Once I thought I was directing a movie and was telling my parents about the movie and another time I thought I was working in the Willy Wonka Chocolate Factory. (Weird, I know, but totally true.) Just FYI, the technical term for sleepwalking is somnambulism. Normally, when a person enters the REM stage of sleep (the stage when we dream), their limb muscles become temporarily paralyzed. When this doesn't happen, we act out our dreams resulting in sleepwalking.
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@_sketch_ (5742)
• United States
27 Aug 09
No, they do keep their eyes open. In fact, I have never seen anyone do it with their eyes closed.
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@voldrox (7191)
• India
27 Aug 09
thanks for the info sketch.... i sure think many people will find sleepwalking strange, i haven't witnessed anything like this, and i want to, oh i didn't know that people can talk while sleep walking coz i have seen some videos on youtube and they just walk and do things and mostly don't respond... well it would sure be interesting if they talk... well you mean like if that my limb muscles won't paralize then i could walk around dreaming? that sounds quiet interesting though i would not want that to happen to me... lol... i am really dazzled how people walk without crashing into things while sleepwalking, they don't keep their eyes open, do they?!
@voldrox (7191)
• India
27 Aug 09
oh i was engrossed with your response... have a nice day sketch!... i forgot to say that... lol.
@prinzcy (32322)
• Malaysia
27 Aug 09
Yes, I did. When you stayed in a dormitory for at least a year, you'll find various kind of people. I did saw someone jumped from the top of a bunk bed and suddenly talked to a girl below her. Of course the girl freak out but that other girl didn't realized it and went back to her bed after that. She doesn't even remember doing that. There's another girl who suddenly woke up and yelled. She then flung back to sleep like nothing happen. Then there's another girl who suddenly get up, walk out and walk back in and went to bed like nothing happen.
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@voldrox (7191)
• India
28 Aug 09
hehe.... prinzy, i know living in a dormitory with friends can be very funny.... i am living in a hostel and i get to meet a lot of guys some weird and some crazy, hope to see someone sleep walk sometime i guess, well my room partner always leaves our room door open, we close it before sleeping and in the morning i wake up to see the door is open, and my roomy is still sleeping, i ask him did he go out somewhere in the middle of the night and he says no, well either he sleepwalks or me!....HEHE . . . thanks for sharing and have a nice day prinzy!
@sblossom (2168)
29 Aug 09
I heard some people do like that. They get up in night and walk around then come back to sleep again. In next day they don’t know what happened with them. I have never seen any person in my life that. I’m really curious and worried for them. As I know usually people who walk in night during their sleep are vulnerable. Their life is in risk sometimes. I wonder is there a medicine to help them. I also want to know what the reason behind it is.
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@voldrox (7191)
• India
29 Aug 09
Hi blossom . . yeah they do that and don't even know it the next day they wake up, someone has to keep an eye on them at times, coz sometimes it can really get dangerous, i think it depends on their dream, if they are having a good one then there is nothing much to worry to about, but yeah when they have a bad dream then they can be doing anything... i was watching one show in discovery channel where a man in his sleep walk killed his family and all the while he didn't know he was actually doing it, so sad, maybe he really didn't like his family... i don't know if there is any medicine to control them from sleep walk, some one here said me it is caused when while dreaming our limbs numbing element doesn't work, i mean there is something that deactivates our ability to move while dreaming and for some people that deactivating thing is absent hence enabling them to move while dreaming, well i don't know if it's true or not but sure does sound convincing to me . . thanks for the response and have a nice day blossom!
• Philippines
27 Aug 09
sleepwalking and talking actually runs in our family. Anyway, I have seen my sisters sleepwalk, and have weird conversations with me.. I try to ask them questions cause they look really funny, answering them while sleeping. LOL. My boyfriend said that he had heard me talk in my sleep a couple of times, sometimes i have a fight with someone,sometimes I laugh. weird right?
@voldrox (7191)
• India
28 Aug 09
hehe ingkingderders, i have to say that is very funny, sleepwalking runs in your family ... .... i am sure you had lots of fun talking to your sister sleepwalking and yeah they don't change expressions do they, it would be so funny to talk to someone while sleeping walking, only thing to be taken care of is that they don't have bad intensions while dreaming otherwise it could get scary as well... hehe your boyfriend sure must find it weird i guess... thanks for sharing and have a nice day Ingkingderders!
• Philippines
27 Aug 09
yup! me ive already experience to sleep...one time my wife and i sleep in a cold beach...after midnight i walk to the beach with didnt even know im going...i fall down there and my wife wonder where i am...and then she wake me up i been lying there in sea shore.
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@voldrox (7191)
• India
28 Aug 09
well sameed no one would want anyone to go to the sea shore while sleep walking, take care... thanks for the response and have a good day!
@tintukm (1102)
• India
26 Aug 09
Sleep walking is actually a disease called SOMANABOLISM,And guess what I do have this sort of sleepwalking but not for now,may be a few months go I walked do the stairs and knocked on my mother's room's door may be at night around 2 a.m,this made my mother started to worry too and made me laugh it out for so long that I still am laughing while writing this response ,the disease has not shown any symptoms for long may be this happens when a person is stressed out.
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@voldrox (7191)
• India
27 Aug 09
hey sleep walking is a disease ? really ? I thought it was just because sometimes one can get really into dreams and all the metabolism and stuff like that, but didn't know if it could be categorized as a disease... hmmm.. well thanks for sharing and have a nice day tintukm!
@tintukm (1102)
• India
27 Aug 09
So far as I have been aware of this walking at sleeping has been given a class as a disease. A problem can be always created with such habits and they need to be solved much eagerly by anyone and not waste time by laughing about it.
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@kitty42 (3923)
• United States
26 Aug 09
Hello my friend No I don't know anyone that sleep walks, if I did I think it would scare me, knowing me I would say what is wrong with you?why are you looking like that? snap out of it, big mistakes I know since you are not suppose to wake them up, so it will be in the best interest of all concerned not sleep walk if I am in the house
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@voldrox (7191)
• India
27 Aug 09
hehe.... yeah it could be scary to see someone sleepwalk, i guess they can't hear you or just ignore you and do the things they like, is it really not the right thing to wake someone up while he/she is sleepwalking ? i was wondering..... anyways thank you for sharing and do have a nice day kitty!
@voldrox (7191)
• India
27 Aug 09
wow i guess they would react to you as if you were in their dreams, it can all be peaceful, that's good, i think if any of my friend will sleepwalk someday i will try not to wake him up, instead just peacefully talk to him and guide him back to bed.... thanks kitty!
@kitty42 (3923)
• United States
27 Aug 09
Hello my wonderful friend I have always heard this to be true don't quote me on it, o.k my friend for physical reasons they may hurt themself or you, no permanent damage can be done as far as heart attacks or things of this nature, so its best they say to watch them and guide them back to bed. great question my friend
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@whyiswyh (170)
• Malaysia
27 Aug 09
I don't have any friends or known anyone who sleepwalk. I wish I can see them sleepwalk as it is very interesting. In Malaysia, I don't think there are much cases for sleepwalking.However, my mother sleeptalks..that's the best I can get over here. Sleepwalking looks cool when you are the spectator...Thrilled and not scared ;D
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@voldrox (7191)
• India
27 Aug 09
yeah whyiswyh i agree it could be fun and so i do want to see some action myself... hehe i have talked to a friend of mine while we was talking in sleep, and it sure was so funny when he gave some reely reely funny answers to our questions... man i have to say i have got to see some action as well... have a nice day whyiswyh!
@eno222 (93)
• Nigeria
27 Aug 09
no i dont,though i have always wish to see it life,dont really no how its like.though i feel it will be fun and at the same time scary to watch.and honestly i dont no any one,too such its a taboo in africa.
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@voldrox (7191)
• India
27 Aug 09
hmm yeah i want to have some fun watching it, i just hope the sleepwalker doesn't scare me........ have a nice day eno!
@janebeth (2032)
• Philippines
27 Aug 09
Yes i get the chance to witness it in my father.. It's funny to see it but it's bad for them.. So everytime he do it again we really wakes him up immedietely to prevent accidents.. Maybe he dreams a bad dream that's why it ended up like that..
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@voldrox (7191)
• India
27 Aug 09
i agree janebeth.... sleep walking can get scary at times, hmm so you wake him up when he does that, coz some people believe we should not wake someone up while he/she is sleep walking....anyways thanks for sharing and have a nice day janebeth!
@Entreri (71)
• China
27 Aug 09
I have never seen it.. But I imagine that it's like demon possess his body..It's terrible...- -
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@voldrox (7191)
• India
27 Aug 09
hmm entreri... i have to say sometimes it really might look scary but also sometimes the person can be very funny... have a nice day entreri
• United States
27 Aug 09
HA yah. when i was younger my friend stayed over and started getting up and down so we eventually moved him to the back yard and he walked to the shed and fell asleep in it.
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@voldrox (7191)
• India
27 Aug 09
hehe pretty funny, innovative new ideas to handle situations...hehe... thanks for sharing and have a nice day gothic!
• United States
27 Aug 09
My friend's dad sleep walks. Not so much anymore and when he was a kid. Now he mostly just talks in his sleep. It's kinda creepy sometimes but mostly funny. He asks the most random things when he's asleep. My son also tends to laugh, cry, and talk in his sleep. Only once in a while he sits up in bed to day something but that's it. He's never actually gotten up off the bed.
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@voldrox (7191)
• India
27 Aug 09
well i guess you will have to keep an eye out on your son for a while... thanks for sharing and have a good day harleen!