Weird sleep walking/sleep behaviour…anyone else?

[Sleepytot3]

I have always done ‘weird’ things in my sleep, from I was a little girl.
I don’t know if I would describe it as sleep walking but I guess that’s what it is.
I get up most nights at least twice panicking, not knowing where I am, where the kids are. I will check their rooms and that will call me down.
I am known to text in my sleep. Always the texts are spelt correctly and generally sent to the ‘right’ person e.g I would text my boyfriend something about seeing him next day, or next my mum something related to her.
i sometimes will get up and say “whose there” and worry someone is in my house. I will get up from bed and get to the top of the stairs and generally ‘snap’ out of it. But in that panicky time I may have started ringing someone for help.
i sometimes hide my phone or put it on silent and in the morning have to try to find it.
my friends and family all know this about me and I guess at times it is a running joke if we all go away for the weekend.
for me though I always have broken sleep.
It is worse when I am stressed but never really stops.
i spoke to the dr about it who wasn’t too concerned as I’ve never came to any harm. I’m not scared of anything happening to me, if anything I just be very panicked for a few minutes and then calm myself down and go back to sleep. I do know it’s strange though.

has anyone any experience of this or any advice of how I could combat it?

Anyone else?

I have this exact problem. I’ve done it all my adult life, panicked jumping up, looking at things, sometimes saying things, then realising and going back to bed. It became worse with sleep deprivation when DD was born and I eventually sought help when I ran into a piece of furniture and cut my head needing stitches. GP initially gave me sleeping tablets but they didn’t help so I went back and managed to get referred to a sleep specialist. Had to go in and be monitored while sleeping so they could see what was going on with my brain. The diagnosis was non-REM parasomnia, meaning that I do things in the early phase of sleep before dreaming kicks in. The specialist prescribed me melatonin to take on an ongoing basis, and also said I needed to go to bed earlier each night so I got more sleep in total. The combination of these two things has worked, I still do the occasional thing but nowhere near as much as in the past, and it tends to be when I forget to take the melatonin or am short of sleep overall.

Thank you. Sounds exactly like me