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Sleep Walking / Sleepwalking & Unconscious Activity While Sleeping

Hello all,

I just wanted to share my silly sleepwalking experienes. up until maybe 2 or 3 years ago i would "wake up" in bed thinking i was choking on something such as a pin, a whole egg, a microphone type thing and the best yet.... the number 12. my grandmother once was awakened by the sounds of me gagging myself trying to get whatever it was out of my throat. of course by then it was a fairly common occurance so she told me to go to bed and i would feel better. another time, that my mother and i often joke about, is when in the middle of the night i went into her room very upset becuase i had, in my crazy head, thought i had swallowed an entire egg (it was around easter time). all of these times by the time i went back to bed i was fully awake and not startled by what happened just amused.
 
Night Eating Syndrome might explain bizarre snack times

BY PAUL G. DONOHUE, M.D.
Apr 13, 2005



DEAR DR. DONOHUE: This letter is a cry for help for my 23-year-old daughter. While in her junior year in college, she found herself getting up at night to eat when she wasn't even hungry, and this pattern persists. She usually remembers getting out of bed and going to the kitchen to get a snack, but on some occasions she finds herself in the kitchen and doesn't remember how she got there. There are nights when she does this two or three times. A physician assistant prescribed sleeping pills, and a behavioral specialist told her to calm down and de-stress her life. Have you ever encountered such a problem? -- P.K.

ANSWER: Your daughter might have a condition called night eating syndrome. It was first described in 1953 and was thought then to be an oddity. It has become evident that it is not so uncommon. People who have this problem eat most of their calories in the evening. Some wake from sleep to eat, and sometimes they are not aware of what they are doing.

One hypothesis used to explain what's going on is that these people's bodies are flooded with cortisol at night. Cortisol is a hormone, and it's released in response to stress, whether the stress is recognized or hidden. Eating is the body's attempt to dampen cortisol release. Whether this explanation is true or not remains to be seen. The condition still exists, regardless of the explanation.

You mentioned in your letter where you daughter lives. It's a very large city with many sleep-disorder clinics, some associated with medical schools or large hospitals. She should contact one of these institutions for an interview. If she finds it impossible to make a connection, a family physician can put her in touch with a professional who handles such problems. Medicines and talk therapy can often control this syndrome.

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I was stressed a lot as a child and used to sleep walk. I think the oddest thing I did was put my duvet in the bathroom. My parents also had to put a deadbolt on the front door to stop me getting out! I haven't sleepwalked for a long time now, but occasionally still do when stressed (last time was during my finals and I ended up banging on my wardrobe door).

I always think sleep walking is like being very drunk. I can just about remember putting my duvet in the bathroom, I can't remember why, but it made sense at the time. I always find that sleepwalking is also equally as embarassing!
 
Sleep Walker Wakes Up And Falls Off Roof

June 25, 2005, 9:10:33
Bizarre News

A sleepwalking German fell off his roof after waking up mid-wander - and losing his balance.

Thomas Manninger climbed out of a first-floor window, shimmied up a drainpipe and managed to walk across the roof of his house, before falling 20 feet to the ground when he woke up and realised where he was.

The 39-year-old said he had often woken up in different parts of the house after sleepwalking, but this was the first time he had ended up on the roof. He said: "I must have been having a very strange dream."

A police spokesman said: "The only thing that saved him was the fact that he fell onto a lawn that was still soggy from the rain."

Mr Manninger was taken to hospital, where doctors said he had a few bruises but no broken bones.

He has now been booked into a specialist sleep laboratory in Frankfurt for a course of therapy.

www.femalefirst.co.uk/bizarre/65912004.htm
 
I've had four sleepwalking experiences that I know of. The first time I dreamed I was in a gloomy, bare room and there was wallpaper (that plain lining paper sort) pinned (with drawing pins) horizontally around the room. I was desperate to get to the loo so I started unpinning the paper to find the door which was hidden somewhere behind the paper. I got so frustrated (desperate for a pee likely) that I ended up ripping the paper off until I found the door. I woke up in the morning to find I'd unpinned most of the posters in my room, and ripped the rest off the walls. I did have a few drinks the night before but wasn't drunk.
About ten years later I had moved bedrooms (same house) after my sister got married. I had the exact same dream again, except this time there were piles of books round the room and I was moving them trying to find the door. Woke up next morning to find I'd removed loads of books from the bookshelves in my room and scattered them around the room, even some on the bed. No drink involved that time though, but the room in the dream was identical.
Last year I was going through a bad time in the process of splitting up with my husband and I dreamed I was at my mum's house, looking for the automatic garage door gizmo. My husband woke to find me raking about in the bedroom cupboards, then I went through to the living room and came back with the tv remote which I was pointing at the big mirror over the dressing table, thinking it was the garage door. He woke me by asking what I was doing and with the shock of realising I was still with him and not home with my parents, I fell to the floor sobbing.
A few nights later I woke up to find something hard in my hand (no, I'd not been molesting my husband, he wasn't even there) - it was a hammer. On the floor of the bedroom was a cross-stitch picture that one of my mum's friends had made when I got married, with mine and hubbie's names on it. I'd smashed all the glass in the frame, which was lying all over the floor. Symbolic of our wrecked marriage I think. Not surprised I was sleepwalking cos I was extremely traumatised - being thousands of miles from home, going through a marriage break-up and my dad was dying of cancer, so I wasn't in the best of mental states.
Since then, nothing thank God! Although now I am blessed?? with a bf who talks in his sleep - latest offering "Where's me notebook?........F*ck off!!!" (shouted the last bit). I often try and wind him up when he's talking and carry on a conversation with him seeing what he'll come up with next. One night he blurted out "Let's get married!" I said "OK, when?" "Wednesday" he said. I asked him if it was ok if I wore wellies and he was quite agreeable to that! When I tell him in the morning what he's said, he thinks I'm making it up, but some of it is so bizarre, I couldn't invent it. :lol:
 
This is a truly amazing story:

Teen 'sleepwalks to top of crane'

A teenage sleepwalker was rescued after being found asleep on the arm of a 130ft crane, police have revealed.
Police and firefighters were called to a building site in south east London, after a passer-by spotted the girl.

The unnamed 15-year-old had apparently left her home near the site, climbed the crane and walked across a narrow beam while remaining fast asleep.

The girl was rescued unharmed in the incident which happened on 25 June but has only just been revealed by police.

Mobile phone

Police were initially called at 1.30am amid fears she was about to throw herself off but when a firefighter scaled the crane he found her curled up asleep on top of a concrete counterweight high above the ground.

Fearing to wake her in case she should panic and fall off the arm, the firefighter is understood to have found her mobile phone and called her parents from the top of the crane.

They then phoned her to wake her up.

She was eventually brought down by hydraulic lift and taken to hospital for checks but was found to have suffered no ill effects.

Expert Irshaad Ebrahim, of the London Sleep Centre, told the Times newspaper he had treated people who had driven cars and ridden horses while asleep.

He said one patient had even attempted to fly a helicopter.

Sleepwalking affects one in 10 people at least once in their lives.

Most incidents are short and are not dangerous but it can sometimes result in injury.

Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/uk/4654579.stm

Published: 2005/07/06 01:26:50 GMT

© BBC MMV
 
Teen 'sleepwalks to top of crane'

To sleep perchance to.....Blimey!


Teen 'sleepwalks to top of crane'
A teenage sleepwalker was rescued after being found asleep on the arm of a 130ft crane, police have revealed.
Police and firefighters were called to a building site in south east London, after a passer-by spotted the girl.

The unnamed 15-year-old had apparently left her home near the site, climbed the crane and walked across a narrow beam while remaining fast asleep.

The girl was rescued unharmed in the incident which happened on 25 June but has only just been revealed by police.

Mobile phone

Police were initially called at 0130 BST amid fears she was about to throw herself off but when a firefighter scaled the crane he found her curled up asleep on top of a concrete counterweight high above the ground.

Fearing to wake her in case she should panic and fall off the arm, the firefighter is understood to have found her mobile phone and called her parents from the top of the crane.

They then phoned her to wake her up.

She was eventually brought down by hydraulic lift and taken to hospital for checks but was found to have suffered no ill effects.

Expert Irshaad Ebrahim, of the London Sleep Centre, told the Times newspaper he had treated people who had driven cars and ridden horses while asleep.

He said one patient had even attempted to fly a helicopter.

Sleepwalking affects one in 10 people at least once in their lives.

Most incidents are short and are not dangerous but it can sometimes result in injury.

Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/uk/4654579.stm

Published: 2005/07/06 01:26:50 GMT

© BBC MMV
 
Chips are down for sleepwalk chef
A former chef who cooks chips and omelettes in his sleep has spoken of his desperation to find a cure before he sets his house on fire.
Rab Wood, from Glenrothes in Fife, is worried that he could burn his house down during his sleepwalking sessions.

The 55-year-old, who has been sleepwalking since he was 14 years old, said it is making his life a misery.

His wife Eleanor said she is constantly alert at night with worry about what her husband is going to do next.

It has been estimated that between two and 4% of adults in the UK sleepwalk. Experts at the Edinburgh Sleep Centre have said that if both parents sleepwalk then their children have a 60% chance of inheriting the disorder.

Children with one parent who sleepwalks have a 45% chance of it running in their genes while there is a 22% chance if neither parent sleepwalks.

Mr Wood said the problem almost led him to his death while on holiday.

He said: "I have had a near miss, I was on holiday in Spain and I was nine floors up in a hotel.


My wife says she used to be able to sleep on a bed of nails but since she married me she can't sleep very well, she's got to be alert all night
Rab Wood

"During the night I got up and started sleepwalking before trying to climb over the balcony.

"Just as I got my leg over the banister my wife pulled me back.

"My wife says she used to be able to sleep on a bed of nails but since she married me she can't sleep very well, she's got to be alert all night.

"I can put chip pans on, I put all the lights on during the night and the TV up loud and this is all in my sleep."

The former chef said he can also rustle up omelettes "to perfection".

"My wife says I should plug the Hoover in when I'm sleepwalking and do the housework."

'Limb twitching'

Chris Idzikowski, of Edinburgh Sleep Centre, said Mr Wood should look at his alcohol and cigarette consumption. Mr Wood had confirmed that he was a smoker and "likes to drink the odd can of beer".

Mr Idzikowski said: "We reckon that sleepwalking is a closet disorder amongst adults so that's why we are not sure of the numbers who suffer from sleepwalking.

"The facilitators are overtiredness, alcohol, cigarettes and sleeping pills, which all prevent the brain from waking up.

"The triggers for a sleepwalking episode are not breathing properly and limb twitching.

"There is also a strong genetic link with sleepwalking.

"Mr Wood needs to cut down his smoking, alcohol and regularise his sleeping."


Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/s ... 860038.stm

Published: 2006/03/30 10:07:52 GMT

© BBC MMVI
 
Girl plunges from window in sleep

Jasmine will now move into a different bedroom at her home
A nine-year-old girl fell 30ft (9m) from her attic bedroom window while she was sleepwalking in the night.
Miraculously, Jasmine Clark's fall was broken by an old carpet left in the driveway just hours before, and she escaped with only cuts and bruises.

Her father, David Clark, said Jasmine had sleepwalked in the past but the family thought she had grown out of it.

She will now move into a different bedroom at her Scarborough home to ensure it does not happen again.

Jasmine said: "I was sleepwalking and then I opened the window and fell out onto the drive, and I felt myself on the drive.

"When I woke up I felt like I had grazes all over me."

Gaping wound

The noise of her fall alerted Jasmine's parents, who ran outside to find her lying on the carpet in the driveway.

Mr Clark said: "She had a gaping wound to her chin and blood everywhere, and she was screaming for me.

"I ran to her and lifted her into my arms to try and comfort her."

Dr Andy Volans, of Scarborough Hospital, said Jasmine had been "very, very lucky".

He said: "There is an old wives' tale that you don't injure yourself if you sleepwalk, but physics would suggest that if you fall that far, you have got to hurt yourself."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/engl ... 215696.stm
 
sleep talking

Lil Sis was a great sleep talker when we were kids. she would fall asleep even if we (my brothers and me) were still playing before bedtime and we would hear her chatting away. we would wake her up when she was done and ask her what was she dreaming about. on one occassion she was calling out, "it's a boy! it's a girl! it's a boy!". when we woke her up she told us she'd been dreaming she was a midwife! a very confused one obviously. :lol: well she was only about 8! :lol:
 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6972548.stm

Supergrass have been forced to put all plans on hold because band member Mick Quinn has broken his back.

The bass player and vocalist sleepwalked out of a first floor window of the villa where he was staying in the South of France.

Quinn was rushed to a specialist spinal unit in Toulouse where surgeons operated to repair two broken vertebrae as well as a smashed heel.

He is expected to make a full recovery, although it could take several months.

I have visions of him walking through the window, arms outstretched like in a cartoon, suspended in mid air for a few seconds before tumbling to his doom.
 
I've had 2 cases of sleepwalking recently, and i don't remember ever sleep walking when i was younger. I can remember going to bed in my own room and waking up in the spare room. That was about 3 months ago. And last weekend i can remember going to bed with my lamp off and waking up with it on (noone else was in the house). Not as exciting as some stories i've read in this thread, but sleep walking nonetheless ^^
 
I'm not a sleepwalker, but I am a sleeptalker. It seems quite common in my family.
One night I was in bed with my boyfriend and said "I'm looking for a really attractive person," then hit him.
Another time, when I was ill, he had to wake me up because my continuous mumbling was disturbing. Another time when I was ill I woke the whole family up with my sleep-moaning. :oops:
 
Zzz-mail: What happens when sleepwalkers go online
Doctors have reported the first ever case of someone using the internet while asleep, after a sleeping woman sent emails to people asking them over for drinks and caviar.

By Roger Dobson
Last Updated: 10:43PM GMT 13 Dec 2008

It was only when a would-be guest phoned the next day to accept, that she found out what she had done.

The 44-year-old woman, whose case is reported by researchers from the University of Toledo in the latest edition of medical journal Sleep Medicine, had gone to bed at around 10pm, but got up two hours later and walked to the next room.

She then turned on the computer, connected to the internet, and logged on by typing her username and password to her email account. She then composed and sent three emails.

Each was in a random mix of upper and lower cases, not well formatted and written in strange language.

One read: "Come tomorrow and sort this hell hole out. Dinner and drinks, 4.pm,. Bring wine and caviar only."

Another said simply, "What the……."

The new variation of sleepwalking has been described as "zzz-mailing".

The report says: "We believe writing an email after turning the computer on, connecting to the internet and remembering the password displayed by our patient is novel.

"To our knowledge this type of complex behaviour requiring coordinated movements has not been reported before in sleepwalking.

"She was shocked when she saw these emails, as she did not recall writing them. She did not have any history of night terrors or sleepwalking as a child."

The neurologists say that unlike simple sleep walking, the activities their patient was involved in requires complex behaviour and coordinated movements including typing, composing and writing the messages.

She was also able to remember her password and turn the computer on and connect to the internet, although she has no memory of the event.


It is thought that the woman's sleep walking may have been triggered by prescription medication, although the causes of the phenomenon are not fully understood.

Sleepwalking, or somnambulism, has been linked to tiredness, stress, anxiety, alcohol, seizures, and a number of medications, including some sedatives. Some research also suggest it runs in families.

Sleepwalking behaviour, which usually lasts a few minutes although it can persist for more than half an hour, can involve a whole range of different behaviours. Mostly it ranges from simply sitting up in bed while still apparently asleep, or getting dressed, and walking around in a daze.

However, cases of sleepwalkers driving a car, cooking, playing a musical instrument, and painting have been reported.

In rare cases it can involve violence, including sexual assaults and even murder.

It can include repetitive and bizarre behaviour and can be annoying and irritating for the bed partner.

In a case reported by researchers at the University of Minnesota, a husband would, almost every night, suddenly grab his wife's buttocks during sleep for no apparent reason.

Other activities experienced by sleepwalkers:

Sleep sex

There have been a number of cases where sleepwalking has been used as a defence against accusations of inappropriate sexual behaviour and assault.

Earlier this year, Jason Jeal, a 37-year-old roofer admitted sex had taken place with a 33-year-old woman, but was cleared of rape after insisting he had been asleep and had no idea what he was doing. She was asleep at home when Jeal, who had been a house guest, started having sex with her.

Three years ago, 22-year-old James Bilton was found not guilty of rape on the basis of automatism. He claimed to have no recollection of any of the events for which he was charged.

Somniloquy or sleep-talking

Talking aloud during sleep is relatively common, especially in children. It can be loud and ranging from simple sounds to long speeches and may sound like gibberish.

Sleep dropping

There is a popular perception that sleepwalkers never injure themselves. In fact, falls are quite common. A 17-year-old sleepwalker who stepped out of a fourth-storey window of his apartment in Demmin, in Germany, fell 10 metres to the ground, where he continued to sleep, despite having a fractured limb.

Homicidal somnambulism

A number of sleepwalkers have been acquitted of murder charges. Sixteen years ago, the Canadian Supreme Court upheld the acquittal of a man who had said he was sleepwalking when he drove 14 miles, stabbed his mother-in-law to death and seriously injured his father-in-law. In Arizona, it was claimed that a man was sleepwalking when he stabbed his wife 26 times, and he was acquitted on the ground he was temporarily insane.

Sleep art

North Wales nurse Lee Hadwin is an artist who produces works of art during his sleep and has no recollection of his endeavours the next day. Inevitably dubbed "Kipasso", he has no interest or particular talent for art by day. :D

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstop ... nline.html
 
Blind adventurer survives 25ft sleepwalk fall from window
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/fro ... 03755.html
CHARLIE TAYLOR

Tue, Jul 06, 2010

WELL-KNOWN Irish adventurer, motivational speaker and author Mark Pollock, who became the first blind man to reach the South Pole on foot, is in a serious but stable condition after falling from an upper floor window while sleepwalking.

Belfast-born Mr Pollock (34) is in intensive care in the Royal Berkshire Hospital in England, having sustained multiple broken bones and internal injuries in the fall, which happened last Friday.

Mr Pollock fell 25ft from a bedroom window in a house in which he was staying after attending the Henley Royal Regatta as a spectator.

Mr Pollock, who lost his sight at the age of 22, was recovering after having recently completed the Round Ireland Yacht Race at the time of the accident. He became the first blind man to co-skipper a boat in the event.

His fiancee Simone George credited his friends’ quick reaction with saving his life.

They came to his aid immediately after his fall from the upper-floor window.

“We want to say thank you to his friends for saving his life. We cannot express what we feel for them. Mark is focusing on getting better,” she said.

“He would like to thank everyone for their love and their prayers and their thoughts,” Ms George added.

Mr Pollock has taken part in a series of extreme challenges since going blind, when his retina detached in 1998.

These include completing six marathons in one week in the Gobi Desert as part of The Race of No Return, and participation in a number of other extreme running events on Everest and at the North Pole.

Last year, he took part in the Amundsen Omega 3 race, becoming the first blind man to reach the South Pole on foot.

Mr Pollock and fellow competitors, Dubliner Simon O’Donnell and Norwegian Inge Solheim, came fifth overall of six teams in the race.

He has also won silver and bronze medals in rowing at the Commonwealth Games in 2002.

In addition to being a professional adventure athlete, Mr Pollock also works as a motivational speaker and has co-authored the book Making it Happen with documentary film maker Ross Whitaker, which chronicles how he overcame the odds to rebuild his life after going blind.

At the time he lost his sight, Mr Pollock was an international rower who was completing his studies at Trinity College Dublin after which he hoped to pursue a career in investment banking.
 
Sleepwalking 'linked to chromosome fault'
By Michelle Roberts, Health reporter, BBC News

Scientists believe they have discovered the genetic code that makes some people sleepwalk.
By studying four generations of a family of sleepwalkers they traced the fault to a section of chromosome 20.
Carrying even one copy of the defective DNA is enough to cause sleepwalking, the experts told the journal Neurology.

They hope to target the genes involved and find new treatments for the condition that affects up to 10% of children and one in 50 adults.

Most often, sleepwalking is a fairly benign problem and something that will be outgrown.
Many children will have episodes where they will arise from their sleep in a trance-like state and wander.

But more extreme cases of sleepwalking can be deeply disruptive and downright dangerous, particularly when the condition persists into adulthood.
Sleepwalkers may perform complex feats such as locating the car keys, unlocking the doors and then driving.
There have even been high-profile cases where sleepwalkers have killed during an episode.

Despite this relatively little is known about the phenomenon, called somnambulism by medics.

Experts do know that sleepwalking tends to run in families and that some people are particularly susceptible to it.

And factors like being over-tired or stressed can be the trigger.

Typically, episodes happen early in the night, soon after the individual has fallen asleep and is in the deep, dreamless "slow wave" or non-rapid eye movement (NREM) stage of sleep.
By morning, the person will usually have no recollection of the episode.

For the latest study, Dr Christina Gurnett and colleagues at the Washington University School of Medicine sought the help of a large family of sleepwalkers.
The family had been referred to them because one of the youngest members, a 12-year-old girl called Hannah, had been experiencing particularly troublesome sleepwalking, which regularly caused her to leave the house and roam during the night.
Among the four generations of the family, spanning from the great-grandparents downwards, nine members out of the 22 were sleepwalkers.

One family member - an uncle of Hannah's - frequently wakes to find he has put on eight pairs of socks during the night. Some of her other sleepwalking relatives have suffered injuries such as broken toes during their nocturnal wanderings.

Using saliva samples the researchers analysed the family's DNA to unpick the genetics of the condition.
A genome-wide search revealed the problem stemmed from genetic code housed on chromosome 20, and that this code had been passed down from generation to generation. Someone with the gene has a 50% chance of passing it on to their children.
And any individual who inherited a copy of the faulty DNA would be a sleepwalker, they found.

Although they have yet to identify the precise gene or genes involved - there are a potential 28 - their hunch is that it will be the adenosine deaminase gene that is the culprit.
This gene, which sits in the minute segment of chromosome 20 that the researchers identified, is already known to be linked to the slow wave sleep that sleepwalking occurs within.

Dr Gurnett said: "It is likely that several genes will be involved. What we have found is the first genetic locus for sleepwalking.
"We do not know yet which of the genes in this linkage region of chromosome 20 will be responsible. Until we find the gene we won't know whether this accounts for several families or a large number of families who have sleepwalking.
"But discovering these genes could help with identifying and treating the condition."

Dr Malcolm von Schantz, a sleep expert at the University of Surrey, said: "This provides the proof of concept. We are beyond the needle in the haystack stage. It's now become feasible to find out which mutation in which gene is responsible."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-12265572
 
rynner2 said:
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Sleep art

North Wales nurse Lee Hadwin is an artist who produces works of art during his sleep and has no recollection of his endeavours the next day. Inevitably dubbed "Kipasso", he has no interest or particular talent for art by day. :D

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstop ... nline.html
The man who produces art in his sleep
29 August 2011 Last updated at 10:37

[video]

Artist Lee Hadwin has a unique talent - he can only produce his artwork in his sleep.
Lee cannot remember doing anything while he is asleep, and cannot recreate his work while he is awake.

Speaking to the BBC, Lee says he has no real interest in art, but has been producing his own work since a small child.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-14706864


Sleep-artist Lee Hadwin creates amazing night while he’s snoozing

Being an artist is so easy, Lee Hadwin can do it in his sleep, but when he is awake, the 37-year-old, who got a D in art at school, cannot paint or draw to save his life.

He discovered his nocturnal talent aged four, when he began to sleepwalk and draw on his mother’s furniture.
‘I got up in the middle of the night and scribbled on the walls,’ he said.
‘Once, I carved into an old bureau, which was a family heirloom – my mother was not pleased.’

He draws in his sleep and has no memory of the creative session once he wakes up. His pictures have sold for six-figure sums

Since then, he has produced almost 200 sleep-pictures, selling them to collectors such as illusionist Derren Brown, with one piece fetching a six-figure sum. He does not know why he can draw only in his sleep but believes it may be spirits communicating from the other side.

However, sleep scientists say it could have been brought on by a trauma, when Mr Hadwin, from South Kensington in central London, lost five friends at an early age.

His creative episodes normally follow a night of heavy drinking and he wakes up with no memory of what he did.
‘Friends have recorded me and I find it really embarrassing – it’s like watching yourself when you’re drunk,’ said the former nurse.

‘Some people say, “You can’t be an artist because you have to be conscious to produce art”. But, at the end of the day, what is art?’

Read more: http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/873837-sle ... z1WUYt7ntX
 
Since I last posted in this thread - in 2005, my boyfriend found me, a month or so ago, fully dressed in my PJ's, just standing, in the dark, facing the open door in the spare room. It freaked him out!
 
My aunt used to sleepwalk, I can remember seeing her getting up to read a book and being told that she was asleep. She apparently often used to get up and walk about but they locked the door after they found her one night sitting on the edge of a nearby quarry.
 
If we already have a thread on sleeping walking/talking could someone please add this to it?
Last night my husband fell asleep in front of the TV and said "that's Jason, he's a Mandolorian, he can't go to lunch, he's disabled." He's talked in his sleep before (once amusingly crying out "mant!" several days after he'd seen the film), but this is the first time he's used a word he doesn't know. Or at least a word he didn't know he knew. I googled mandolorian and discovered it was a very obscure Star Wars reference. Husband has seen most of the films but didn't particularly like them.
Is there a word for this sort of thing?
 
Mandalorians are obscure for the movies, but there are a number of major characters that are Mandalorians in various Star Wars computer games. They're basically Dorsai (another science fiction people). A disabled Mandalorian would probably not have the best sense of self worth since they're inherently proud warriors.
 
My husband has never played a computer game in his life. Unless there's something he's not telling me. :?
 
Beakboo: "Is there a word for this sort of thing?"

Crypto-amnesia covers it, I think. Used to describe the creative powers which work away unconsciously, employing data of which we have no waking recollection.

Spirit Guides, Past Lives etc. etc. all seem more elaborate examples of the brief access that Beakboo's husband had to the Akashic Records. :shock:
 
I've just read that out to him. He's thrilled. :D Thanks James.
 
Search for missing 'sleepwalker' Joy Grigg

A search is being carried out for a woman who has not been seen since she left home, possibly while sleepwalking.
Devon and Cornwall Police said 50-year-old Joy Grigg disappeared in the early hours of Wednesday.

The force said her disappearance was "totally out of character". She disappeared after making an exit through a kitchen window.
Sgt Jo Williams said the rural location of Mrs Grigg's home at Tregeare near Launceston had "inherent dangers".

Cornwall Rescue Group is helping officers search the surrounding area.

Mrs Grigg is about 5ft 2in (1.57m) tall, of medium build with light brown hair and is believed to have been wearing a nightdress with possibly a light blue coat and black ankle boots.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-21786902
 
UPDATE: Concern for missing sleepwalker wearing nothing but nightdress - FOUND
4:43pm Thursday 14th March 2013 in News

UPDATE, March 15: Mrs Grigg was found last night in a hedge near Camelford - about 12 miles away from her home - by a member of the public.
She is recovering in hospital in Plymouth.

http://www.falmouthpacket.co.uk/news/10 ... ss/?ref=mr
 
What a coincidence - I'm considering wearing my Lady Macbeth outfit at work for Red Nose Day and sleepwalking around the place! :D
 
On the subject of Sleep Weirdness, there was an interesting programme on the radio yesterday afternoon which people might like
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08n2gj8
The Digital Human - Subconscious

which included a woman who'd got (mostly) dressed, put her makeup on, put a coat on the dog, got both of them in the car, and then driven some way (including onto a motorway) -all in her sleep. I don't think her driving was terribly good as she was stopped to be breathalyzed. She still didn't wake up at that, and woke up later in a police cell.

Also much on the programme about 'blind sight' where people who can't "see" can still subconsciously see what's round them (so they don't walk into things) and a chap who was in a coma but later recognised the face of one of his doctors.

The inference being - who knows what we're ordinarily doing and absorbing on a subconscious level. (Then this was shoehorned into the general theme of the series, i.e. who knows what we're subconsciously absorbing when we're footling about on the internet).
 
On the subject of Sleep Weirdness, there was an interesting programme on the radio yesterday afternoon which people might like
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08n2gj8
The Digital Human - Subconscious

which included a woman who'd got (mostly) dressed, put her makeup on, put a coat on the dog, got both of them in the car, and then driven some way (including onto a motorway) -all in her sleep. I don't think her driving was terribly good as she was stopped to be breathalyzed. She still didn't wake up at that, and woke up later in a police cell.

Also much on the programme about 'blind sight' where people who can't "see" can still subconsciously see what's round them (so they don't walk into things) and a chap who was in a coma but later recognised the face of one of his doctors.

The inference being - who knows what we're ordinarily doing and absorbing on a subconscious level. (Then this was shoehorned into the general theme of the series, i.e. who knows what we're subconsciously absorbing when we're footling about on the internet).
Interesting point. It could challenge the argument "they couldn't possibly know about this...". It's true that the way we are bombarded with information could lead strange "leaks" of unused data, on an unpredictable way.
 
... Also much on the programme about 'blind sight' where people who can't "see" can still subconsciously see what's round them (so they don't walk into things) and a chap who was in a coma but later recognised the face of one of his doctors. ...

These older FTMB threads may be interesting in relation to waking blindsight ...

Human Echolocation / Blindsight

forum.forteantimes.com/index.php?threads/human-echolocation-blindsight.28956/
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Seeing with Closed Eyes

forum.forteantimes.com/index.php?threads/seeing-with-closed-eyes.18301/
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