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to think dd has a future in horror?

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Buzzardbird · 19/03/2013 23:13

Oh my ticker! Just went in to check on dd (6) on way to bed to find her standing in the dark looking down with her waist length hair hanging down completely asleep. Managed not to scream and whispered for her to get back into bed and lie down.
seems to be fast asleep, changed my pants, now could do with some fast advice on sleep walking please.
have put a heavy piece of furniture at top of stairs but realise this is not ideal.

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MrsRajeshKoothrappali · 19/03/2013 23:38

No advice for sleepwalking.

My Ds used to do it too - scary at first.

You're not supposed to wake sleepwalker up, I've been told. But that could be a myth.

You get used to it!!

nokidshere · 19/03/2013 23:42

my son used to sleepwalk - its a bit disconcerting lol! We would find him all over the place doing normal everyday stuff - building lego, turning lights on etc

A gentle hand on the back and guide back to bed is all that was needed - although eerily I could have a conversation with him!!!

OkayHazel · 20/03/2013 01:30

Your dd sounds like the grudge! I'd have screamed! Well done for keeping your cool OP.

zippey · 20/03/2013 02:21

Did you record it on videotape? Do you have any wells nearby?
Scary!

MrsTerryPratchett · 20/03/2013 02:26

My 2 yo DD once hid in a corner and made scary, deep voice noises. I actually peered around at her, I was freaked out.

Good luck with the sleep walking!

TanteRose · 20/03/2013 02:45

My DS got chicken pox when he was 2, and was covered in spots - really bad on his face especially. They give you a white cream to put on the spots, so his face was half covered in pasty white blobs of cream, with the pox showing through in raised bumps. He was really into his toy kitchen and so would toddle around with a big (plastic) cutting knife in his hand, either grinning and cackling manically or blowing raspberries Hmm

He looked like a cross between Linda Blair in the Exorcist and Chuckie from Childsplay Shock

Terrifying Grin

haggisandneeps · 20/03/2013 06:32

My DD is the same its bloody terrifying! Wake up in the middle of the night to see her standing there like the wee lassie from The Grudge, head down, hair over face, arms at side. Sometimes she growls too Shock

maddening · 20/03/2013 09:03

Sounds like japanese horror films!

I used to sleep walk. Leave the landing light on so if she gets out of her room the light might wake her up before she wanders elsewhere.

AngelWreakinHavoc · 20/03/2013 09:07

My ds was the worst sleep walker EVER. Luckily he has grown out of it now, But he used to terrify me!

At one point a neighbour (from 6 doors up the road) brought him back to me at 1.30am as he was in her house screaming he had had a nightmare. He was 6/7 years old!

He would often 'escape' down the street in his sleep!

mrsjay · 20/03/2013 09:10

DD used to do it she once ended up myside of the bed just staring at me , I screamed Blush just guide them back to bed they grow out of it, you will have a few more ' Ring moments' but she will grow out of it Grin

HappyAsASandboy · 20/03/2013 09:12

I use to do this Grin My mum would come in my room on her way to bed and I'd it bolt upright, eyes open, and state at her. She said it was pretty scary the first few times.

I progressed to sleep walking. Would get up in the night and turn all the lights on. Once ran a bath and woke up when I got in. Once went in to my sisters room and demanded to borrow her glasses. Strange things.

I don't sleep walk any more, but I do sometimes talk complete nonsense to my DH in the middle of the night. I get very frustrated that he doesn't understand me.

Still18atheart · 20/03/2013 09:19

I used to sleepwalk.
Once I turned on the bath taps and put the plug in. Luckily mum hadn't gone to bed
Grin

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Buzzardbird · 20/03/2013 10:00

Dear God Haggis I pray she doesn't start with the noises. The Grudge is exactly the way she looked. She scared the crap out of me!
I am a bit worried as she keeps telling me that she leaves the house at night and I know I did this as a child as I woke up with muddy feet once.
Time for a high lock on the front door I think and may have to dig the stair gate out again.
Please god don't let her start to growl Shock

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WilsonFrickett · 20/03/2013 11:35

DS did this aged 6 too, but he has stopped it now. Scares the shit out of you!

Definitely do something to the front door. I wouldn't rush to put a stair gate on though, they seem to be able to get down stairs safely (well, DS did) and struggling with a stair gate might be more dangerous IYSWIM - she might try to climb over?

Coffeenowplease · 20/03/2013 12:08

Angel How did you DS get into your neighbours house ? He might have a career as Houdini ahead of him !

AngelWreakinHavoc · 20/03/2013 16:47

Coffee he just wandered in, her door wasnt locked and he was stood at the bottom of her stairs, Woke her up in fact, she thought it was one of her kids crying.

Can you imagine the horror when I was woken at 1.30 with a neighbour in her nighty holding my child!

There has been so many incidents, another one which sticks out was when he wandered out the front door and I caught him, it was chucking down with rain and he got to the bottom of the garden and the rain woke him up, He wanted to know why I had put him outside! Hmm

He slept walked for years till he was about 13 then it just stopped, He still does it now very rarely and he is 15, There was an incident a few weeks back he was sleeping at his mates and started screaming 'Help' in the middle of the night while walking round their house. Luckily they were not too traumatised.

zukiecat · 20/03/2013 18:02

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MrsBucketxx · 20/03/2013 18:09

I sleep walk, and ended up on the road, and trying to get out of hotel windows...naked.... Blush

I have also had a go at dh

please try and keep her contained if you can ensuring external doors and windows locked.

I never grew out of it, it does pop up while I'm stressed or in strange places.

I never

Wheresmycaffeinedrip · 20/03/2013 18:13

Dd has done this twice!!! Stood in my bedroom doorway and said nothing just stared. Looked like something out of the shining

Coffeenowplease · 20/03/2013 21:55

angel she did well I would have peed myself with fright !

LaurieFairyCake · 20/03/2013 21:57
Shock

These stories are shitting me up

Who wants children like that?!?

TheChaoGoesMu · 20/03/2013 22:16

Make sure the house is safe and that she cant get outside. Maybe a stairgate to stop her falling down the stairs, although probably the landing light on would be ok, depending on her age, to reduce the risk of accidents.

notnowImreading · 20/03/2013 22:22

I sleepwalk and talk. My DH wakes me up with no ill effects. Beware - when I was a sleepwalking child I used to think my mum's wardrobe was the toilet.

Kagey · 20/03/2013 22:28

Dd1 does this sometimes, but usually we can hear her walking on the landing, so we wake up before she appears at the side of the bed.

Dd2 is still in her cot, and hopefully she will not do the same!

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Buzzardbird · 20/03/2013 23:59

Thanks for the advice. Have sorted front door etc. All quiet tonight so far. Thank god some of you have had similar experiences, I thought I had given birth to some sort of grinch. My date of birth is all 6's and I get a few comments about being the devil Grin

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