Sleepwalking & Other Activity While Asleep

[catseye]

An honest man.

Although, to be fair, the 'talking in the sleep' bit is fairly incidental. He was concerned that she was spending money and he found the credit card in her purse. That's bang to rights, never mind talking in her sleep.

 

[Yithian]

A new article on 'sleep eating'.

The most devastating sleep disorder of all, according to an expert​

By Sandee LaMotte, CNN
Updated 11:38 AM EDT,
Mon July 8, 2024

Jill was in middle school when she began eating in her sleep. Despite carrying the food back to her bed to devour night after night, she didn’t have a clue about what she had done until the next morning.

“I would wake up with these containers or wrappers from an entire box of crackers or cookies on my bed or by the side of my bed,” said Jill, now 62, who lives an hour away from Minneapolis.

Due to stigma and misunderstanding about sleep eating, CNN agreed not to use her last name.

“A lot of people think this condition is, ‘Oh, you get up and you have a snack and then you go back to bed.’ Well, that’s not what this is. This is a whole other animal,” Jill said of her unconscious nocturnal behaviors.

“I don’t just get up once and take a bite of this or that,” she said. “I can eat a whole package of cookies, then get up again and have four bowls of cereal, then get up again and have an entire box of graham crackers. And it is always junky junk food, never, ‘Oh, I’m going to have an apple.’”

Over time, nights of poor nutrition and dysfunctional sleep can take a toll, Jill said.

“I can’t even tell you how sick you feel,” she said. “You’ve gotten up countless times during the night, so you’re not rested, and you’ve consumed enormous amounts of garbage food. Then you wake up and boom, you have to function the rest of the day. And that’s what I did for years and years and years.”

Continues with explanations:
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/07/08/health/sleep-eating-disorder-wellness/index.html

 

[catseye]

A new article on 'sleep eating'.

The most devastating sleep disorder of all, according to an expert​

By Sandee LaMotte, CNN
Updated 11:38 AM EDT,
Mon July 8, 2024

Jill was in middle school when she began eating in her sleep. Despite carrying the food back to her bed to devour night after night, she didn’t have a clue about what she had done until the next morning.

“I would wake up with these containers or wrappers from an entire box of crackers or cookies on my bed or by the side of my bed,” said Jill, now 62, who lives an hour away from Minneapolis.

Due to stigma and misunderstanding about sleep eating, CNN agreed not to use her last name.

“A lot of people think this condition is, ‘Oh, you get up and you have a snack and then you go back to bed.’ Well, that’s not what this is. This is a whole other animal,” Jill said of her unconscious nocturnal behaviors.

“I don’t just get up once and take a bite of this or that,” she said. “I can eat a whole package of cookies, then get up again and have four bowls of cereal, then get up again and have an entire box of graham crackers. And it is always junky junk food, never, ‘Oh, I’m going to have an apple.’”

Over time, nights of poor nutrition and dysfunctional sleep can take a toll, Jill said.

“I can’t even tell you how sick you feel,” she said. “You’ve gotten up countless times during the night, so you’re not rested, and you’ve consumed enormous amounts of garbage food. Then you wake up and boom, you have to function the rest of the day. And that’s what I did for years and years and years.”

Continues with explanations:
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/07/08/health/sleep-eating-disorder-wellness/index.html

Then surely the answer to this is never to have excess food in the house? I've suffered with a binge eating disorder and the only solution was not to keep anything that could be eaten without excessive preparation in the cupboard. So food was in the freezer or tinned and I simply didn't buy anything like biscuits or crackers or cereal at all.

 

[Yithian]

Then surely the answer to this is never to have excess food in the house? I've suffered with a binge eating disorder and the only solution was not to keep anything that could be eaten without excessive preparation in the cupboard. So food was in the freezer or tinned and I simply didn't buy anything like biscuits or crackers or cereal at all.

I thought the very same thing, and then I wondered whether she might choose to leave the house and go sleep-shopping to buy more.

 

[catseye]

I thought the very same thing, and then I wondered whether she might then leave the house and go sleep-shopping to buy more.

I also wondered about this, but surely sleep-shopping would also be easy to stop (give cards/wallet to someone else to hold overnight, double lock doors and put keys somewhere inaccessible or to someone else)? The same steps as would be taken to stop a sleepwalker from leaving the house...

 

[Eyespy]

earlier this week my friend told me she had hurt her leg in her sleep. Apparently she dreamed she had slipped and fallen, woke up with a stiff knee.put it down to cramp and a restless night.

Then it gets a bit weird, when she went bathroom it was in some disarray, bath mats scattered and shower curtain pulled off rail.

I think she was sleep walking,and its surprisingly common. She she says she never has done anything like this and is worried that she may have had a knock on the head.

 

[catseye]

earlier this week my friend told me she had hurt her leg in her sleep. Apparently she dreamed she had slipped and fallen, woke up with a stiff knee.put it down to cramp and a restless night.

Then it gets a bit weird, when she went bathroom it was in some disarray, bath mats scattered and shower curtain pulled off rail.

I think she was sleep walking,and its surprisingly common. She she says she never has done anything like this and is worried that she may have had a knock on the head.

She doesn't have cats, does she? The destruction that can be perpetrated by a cat spotting a fly is nobody's business.

 

[Eyespy]

No, no pets. She is surprisingly resistant to the idea that she was sleep walking- not sure why. Shes worried that she may have concussion an forgotten falling over.

 

[Yithian]

For one fleeting moment there Escargot, my heart was in my mouth.

I used to sleepwalk when I was younger, and my brother sleep-talks.

No interesting anecdotes though.

I found Miss Yith in the kitchen at about 2 a.m. today, this being the first time I recall that she has gone anywhere apart from the lavatory on autopilot.

My wife and I were still sitting up in bed, discussing summer travel plans? when we heard a dull thump where she'd (fairly gently) bumped into the freezer.

She was leaning against it with one arm and staring down at a lower cupboard door (nothing beyond pots and pans within), so I guided her back to bed after she'd made vaguely negative sounds in response to my inquiry about whether she felt sick.

No recollection this morning and off to school as usual.

 

[AnonyJ]

Apparently my dreams are hilarious - Mr J reports that I regularly laugh during sleep! I tell him I'd been dreaming of him