Thread: Do any of you sleep walk?

I am healthy as a horse, and almost everyone in my family lives to be a ripe old age. The only health issue I have ever had was sleeping issues.
Two nights ago, I ran from my bed into the kitchen where I eventually woke up enough to realize that I was dreaming. I couldn't remember what I was running from, or how long I had been standing in the kitchen. My grandmother would sleep walk alot too, and my grandfather would have to go outside looking for her. He told me this the day after he had a 2 minute conversation with me while i was a sleep on his couch. I was rambling something about how his house is leaning, and that he should remove the dead bodies that were under it.
Stress seems to be the trigger. During football season two-a-days, my mother told me that I was keeping her up at night kicking the wall, grunting, sounding off drills, and yelling things like "I wasn't sleeping coach, I swear".

Other weird moments I have had:
I threw my laptop case out into the middle of the yard, lucky for me my laptop wasn't in it.
I tried to step out of a moving van while I was dreaming on the way home from a church trip.
When I lived in the dorms, my roomate complained about me waking him up often to tell him stupid shit such as snakes were in our dorm room, or there is a bomb on my dresser, but I can't disarm it. The bomb turned out to be my clock radio.

I have an extreme case of insomnia which I know is linked to the sleep walking, but the medications they give me for the insomnia also cause more vivid dreams and more sleep walking. I have taken ambien for four years, and in that four years I have had some sort of nightly adventure on an average of once every two weeks.

Heavy workouts seem to help, especially if I do cardio. If my body is tired, I almost never sleep walk. My grandmother, mother, and myself have all undergone sleep studies where they hooked wires to us and monitored brain activity and other things while we slept. The only thing the studies showed was that our brain was highly active during REM, which posed no risk, and the insomnia was linked to that somehow, but they weren't sure.

I really don't mind the sleep walking all that much other than feeling like shit the morning after because I don't feel like I slept at all. I am thinking of installing a trip wire between my door, so that I will trip over it if I try to go walking around my apartment. That way I would atleast prevent myself from walking outside in my underware again.

Originally Posted by KelJu

Is that why your post are never coherent?

When you can bench more than I weigh you can talk to me.