Has anybody else ever sleep-walked? (Is that the word?)?

Question

Has anyone ever fallen down stairs doing so? That's a scary thought....
I used to sleep walk sometimes as a kid. Just wondered how many other people did.
Are certain people more prone to it than others?

...and why is it bad to wake them up?

Well the only thing I really worry about is the stairs...do people sleepwalking realize they are on stairs if they are sleepwalking?

I know that people have done it of course...I wondered if anyone had any "personal experience" with it. (I guess I worded it too vaguely.)

Answer 1

It is claimed by psychologists that no one ever hurts theirself when they sleepwalk. I believe that people have though and when you consider that there has been at least one acquittal for murder commited while supposedly sleepwalking, I would submit that if you can harm another while sleeping, you can also harm yourself. I do not buy that anyone who killed someone went to that persons house and did it all while asleep, but it is on record. I would rather submit that you can roll over in bed and fall out, or roll over and knock things down from a wall or table, so why would you not be able to trip or fall? I don't know if anyone has fallen down the stairs but I suspect it is possible though less likely than you may think. Apparently true sleepwalkers, contrary to popular myth, walk about with their eyes fully open just like they do when they are awake. They do see then, so it follows that they would be as likely to fall down the stairs as someone who is walking around awake. Does that happen, yes. Often, no.
Has anyone else sleepwalked, obviously, or records would not exist. I have cleaned house in the middle of the night fully asleep and awakened to wonder who did it. My daughters knowing this would shake me when I was in bed asleep until I was responsive. Then they used to ask me where my purse was and if they could have x dollars from it. I would tell them and agree until once awake I began to complain that someone was stealing from my purse and my husband related to me what really was happening. He was astonished. He said I would sit up, open my eyes and tell them so he thought I was awake! Knowing that, I put a quick halt to shaking mom in bed. It also ended missing money. Oddly, I had a refrigerator for sale in the paper once and someone called me when I was asleep. I sold it in my sleep but that time I awoke the next day (or was it minutes later-who knows?) and thought I just had a dream that I sold the frig over the phone. Nope, no dream, the people came and payed me and took it. So it appears to me that sleepwalking is just a state of sleep that is between fully being asleep and trying to or beginning to wake up, but not actually being either fully awake or fully asleep. Psychologists claim that people sleepwalk when something has put alot of stress on them. For those who say they have never sleepwalked, better think twice, because sleepwalking is something you almost never remember doing because you were not fully awake when you did it! Are certain people more prone to it, I would think so-we are all individuals with different threshholds for stress and different things that can set it off. Obviously, if we sleepwalk when under alot of stress, then anyone who is easily stressed or anybody is enduring alot of stress in their life will be more prone to do it. I worked full time, had a family, and was getting another college degree so there was not alot of time to clean house but I like things clean. Apparently that was stressing me and I guess the frig being in my way did too. As for the purse, well, I do not believe that we would in our sleep do anything that we would not do when we are awake, our morals do not change and who we are is not changed, I just wondered where the money went because I was unaware I had dispensed it. I still would have, and still did, but I made sure after that, that I was awake when it happened, like I said, by making the rule not to shake me up after I went to sleep.
Sweet dreams.

Answer 2

I`d didn`t, but had an uncle that did, walked off a fire escape in NYC from the 5th floor and died, and an aunt that got up in the middle of the night , made meals and ate and never remembered it,I believe that is right sleepwalked or maybe sleptwalked, I think its sleepwalked-- I think its bad to wake them up because they might panic and attack you, just stay with a sleepwalker to keep them safe

Answer 3

My son who is now 23, used to sleep walk when he was a teen. One time he got up, got dressed and went to the bus stop for school at 3 am! For some reason, I guess mother's intuition, I happened to wake up. I got up to go to the bathroom, and then I checked on all the kids, as I usually did. When I found he was not there I panicked! I was throwing on my robe so I could go outside and look for him, when all of a sudden he walked in the front door. When I asked him where he'd been, he was upset and said"I missed the bus!" He was STILL ASLEEP! I led him back to bed, and the next morning he had no memory of it at all! Let me tell you, that scared the hell out of me! Just to think what could have happened to him at that hour of the morning out there by himself! After that I put a very large bell on all the doors. Sleep walking can be very dangerous! I don't know what causes it, but he did eventually grow out of it, thank God!

Answer 4

I used to sleep walk as a kid too. Sometimes I used to make my parents think i was actually awake until I started jabbering in a random-sounding language, yet another form of lucid dreaming. It's fairly common with people who are unsettled or tense about something.

Answer 5

I used to sleep walk all the time. My grandma would tell me every morning when I woke up that I had walked in my sleep. When my grandma would ask me to do something before I went to bed and I didn't do it because I either forgot to do it or something, I would sleep walk the same night and so the things she told me to do.
To avoid sleep walking, before you go to bed clear your mind. Make sure you didn't forget to do something. And make sure there is nothing you can get hurt on or trip over.

Answer 6

I did as a kid........but my ex-husband used to do it all the time. He would go all over the house and do things, and I would try to figure out what he was doing. I would get really angry with him cause he was off the wall and irrational, and he would never remember it in the morning. Then we had a daughter, and wouldn't you know, she does the same thing.

Answer 7

Yeah i have slept walked (?!)
I was on a trip to France with my dance troupe, apparently they could hear some movement came out to investigate and they found me behind a door scratching!!!!!