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142 replies

Difranco123 · 06/08/2018 23:54

I’ll kick things off. My dw is a chef and frequently wakes me up by ordering me to “take this to table three now!”. Recently she shook me awake to urgently tell me my cousin was on the bookshelf and needed talking down?!

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labyrinth · 07/08/2018 22:19

DP once shook me awake to tell me he wasn't wearing any pants. When I told him that he never wore pants to bed he eyed me suspiciously and asked if I was sure whilst making me feel his naked thighs. I reassured him and he fell back asleep with no recollection.
He frequently wakes me by throwing back the covers or pulling my pillows away and starting at me or shouting "who the fuck are you!?!" But never ever remembers in the morning.
He also sleep walks when stressed and I'll often find empty yoghurt pots or biscuit rappers in the kitchen where he's had a sleep feast Grin

ShadyLady53 · 07/08/2018 22:26

An ex used to sleep walk and talk and, freakily could sleep with his eyes open standing up. One day, in the “falling in love” stage, he had been quite poorly and we were stood in a busy place surrounded by people. I was chatting away happily when he turned to me, stared incredulously right into my eyes for a few seconds and then looked disgusted at me. I said “What? Are you alright?” and he said “Bit harsh, wasn’t it?”. Then stared ahead into space. I asked him what I’d done or what he thought I’d said and he just kept staring ahead. I said his name really loud and he turned and looked at me, again staring into my eyes and turned back again without saying a word. He ignored me for the rest of the day.

I was in such a state thinking he’d misheard what I said but the next day he came up behind me, wrapped his arms round me and kissed my neck like nothing had happened. I asked him about the day before and he had NO recollection. He said he couldn’t even remember most of the day before but he’d taken flu relief and that must have knocked him out and he was sleeping on his feet. God knows how he had got home.

We also went camping with mates and on several occasions he would go missing in the night. We’d find him hopping round the woods in his sleeping bag like a giant kangaroo, eyes wide open. He’d occasionally stop and glance around, a bit like a meerkat. At these times he wouldn’t show any signs of considering himself to be a human so we’d have to sort of round him up and coax him back into the tent/cabin. It sounds funny but it was quite unnerving and also dangerous if we were up in the hills or near water.

I apparently sleep talk frequently. As a teenager sharing a bed on holiday with my Mum I had a prolonged, very loud orgasm. Interesting feat seeing as I’d never had one in real life. As a small child my Mum also found me sat upright patting the duvet. She asked what I was doing and in a very adult, responsible voice said, “Why sorting the post, of course! There’s so much of it.” I once did a whole routine that I don’t remember;

Me “Shhhhhhhhh!”

Them (waking from a deep sleep) “What!”

Me (whispering frantically): Oh my God! Don’t you hear it? Oh my God! WHAT IS IT?”

Them “What? What is it?”

Me “Shhhhh. Oh my God I’m so scared! Just be quiet. Don’t make a sound.”

Them: “But what do you hear?”

Me (desperately): “Shhhhh. Please.”

Seconds later. Partner terrified lying there...Me: snores

They never got back to sleep.

A couple of weeks ago I apparently said, in teacher mode, “ERRRRRRRM! Just WHAT do you think you’re doing?! I don’t find that particularly funny, DO YOU?”

enough pause for him to think I’d finished

Me; “Don’t do it again...” rolls over in disgust like I’ve just dropped the mic.

The other posts on here have made me lmao, thanks really needed this!

jazzyfizzles · 07/08/2018 22:32

My dad is a retired police sergeant and he came in my room one night and arrested me GrinGrin

jazzyfizzles · 07/08/2018 22:33

When I lived at home, was about 13!

leanne9312 · 07/08/2018 22:35

One night I woke up actually feeling like I was suffocated, looked next to me and my two year old was standing next to me with her bed pillow trying to get in bless her. She must of put it on my face accidentally while I was sleeping hahaha

DilianaDilemma · 07/08/2018 22:48

The more embarrassing one was a couple of years ago at a hotel in Turkey. I woke up in my skimpy pjs in the corridor and had to go to reception to ask for a new key card.

Having spent my impoverished student days trying to make ends meet as a hotel night manager: They were very grateful indeed to you for wearing anything at all, believe me! [vividly remembers literally hundreds of unattractive naked confused people; re-applies brain bleach] Confused

Hope you feel marginally better now.

ScotchEggs · 07/08/2018 23:03

When I was about 7, I was sharing a bed with my Mum one night. Apparently I rolled over to face her, said 'scotch eggs' and then rolled back over, fast asleep. No recollection but it's very believable, I'm often thinking about scotch eggs.

LyndorCake · 07/08/2018 23:14

DH was recently woken under a pile of all our clothes. I had been taking them out of the wardrobe one by one and laying them carefully on the bed (on DH) muttering about moths. Not a clue.

81Byerley · 08/08/2018 05:55

When I was seven, I was sleeping with my mum because my dad was away. I woke up with my mum trying to strangle me. I managed to wake her up, and she said "Oh , I'm sorry pet, I thought you were your dad"!!

Longdistance · 08/08/2018 06:07

Dh declared ‘ it’s 45p, it’s written in the book, don’t be stupid’ Confused
Also, ‘mumble, mumble, it’s over there’ whilst lifting his arm and pointing.
Dd1 also talks in her sleep. Mainly mumbles stuff, but she also doesn’t stop talking all day when she’s awake.

stillawakeat4amagain · 08/08/2018 06:45

when i was younger my friend once told her mother that we was smoking we were about 13 at the time. Not only did she tell her that but also where we stashed them.

DunnoWhy · 08/08/2018 10:34

Dh talks in his sleep but it's usually some short one-two words mumbles that I can't understand. Sometimes he giggles and I try to giggle with him trying to prolong it. It's really funny.
Once he said to me in his sleep allright mate? and I replied yes allright mate . No idea what it was about. He never remembers his dreams.

AsherDsNeverFading · 08/08/2018 11:02

I have REM sleep disorder so I gabber away in my sleep most nights.

I also get up, turn on lights, get dressed, jump in the shower, open the windows, manhandle DH.

It's so normal now that DH doesn't even comment on it any more. Apparently last night, I shook DH awake and told him to "hurry the fuck up" reading The Bible as I needed to take it back to the library. When he told me I was asleep, I replied "Fuck you, the fine's already £400". Rude Blush

Novasglow · 08/08/2018 15:06

Exp was a chef and constantly talked in his sleep.

My personal favourite (read in a heavy scouse accent):
"I keep a banjo in me left arse cheek. His name's Tinny Jim"

I used to note down his outbursts and read them out to him the next day. Think I've still got a list somewhere Grin

sashh · 08/08/2018 15:07

I'd been out with a friend, he was staying over at mine but I went back early and went to bed.

I then remember him waking me up and me telling him I was a sleep and to leave me alone.

I had a cat called Charlie and no cat flap so he needed to be in at night.

My friend's recollection is different. Friend was trying to ask me if Charlie was inside or if he needed to call him.

I apparently told him several times that, "I AM awake", when he asked about the cat I said, "Charlie? Charlie doesn't make sense with cartoon mice" and then tried to go back to sleep with the matter all settled.

I also once walked into the living room miming pressing a remote control, when asked what I was doing I said, "trying not to disclose human stories"

On being told I was asleep I said, "I know" and then went back to bed.

The friend asking about Charlie used to sleep walk as a child, he once tried to get into his brother's bed, he couldn't go into his own bed because of the 'force field round it'.

Another time he took one of his brother's contact lenses back to his own room.

MollysMummy2010 · 08/08/2018 18:02

When we had just moved into a new flat I woke up in the car park in my bra and pants. I assume I had been sleepwalking to where my old bathroom had been. Luckily we were on the ground floor but my husband is a very deep sleeper and it took me a while banging on the window and ringing the bell to get back in. Bright side is I usually sleep naked....

Pansy0926 · 08/08/2018 20:25

I was studying Latin at uni. I also worked at Burger King.

DH never knew, when he was woken by me during the night, whether he would find me reciting laying verb endings (‘demonic chanting’ he said) or making odd hand movements (scooping and putting fries in boxes) or both, while standing at the foot of the bed. He was a bit scared the first time...

AviatorShades · 08/08/2018 20:34

{grin]GrinGrin at all of these - the thread that just keeps giving!

mindutopia · 08/08/2018 20:35

Once my dh said, “we need to get to the market. We need to get the vegetables.” in his sleep. Otherwise, he mostly just laughs and says thing like “dirty bastard.” Hmm I assume that isn’t directed at me.

mindutopia · 08/08/2018 20:38

My friends mum once took too many sleeping tablets and ended up sleep walking to the off licence, bought loads of cheesy puffs, came home and shaved the dog. She said she came in the next morning to find her mum passed out in bed surrounded by cheesy crumbs and dog hair and the poor dog was bald.

Sophisticatedsarcasm · 08/08/2018 21:43

Haha OP my DP is a chef too.... all of his sleeptalking centres around that topic but usually including animals.
Like
You’ve got to stop the cow from turning the oven off as he always forgets.
The giraffe is too hairy to work in my kitchen.
It’s always stuff like that, I think it’s hilarious and try to keep it going as long as possible without proper laughing 🤣🤣

MulberryPeony · 08/08/2018 22:38

I regularly pat the duvet looking for stuff. Managed to convince DH our guinea pigs were on the loose once! Now he knows to just tell me the lay down if I say anything unusual shall we say and I’ll go back to sleep. I also sleep-roared like a lion early on in our relationships so it’s not like he didn’t know what he was getting in to!

DS regularly sleep-shouts random things at night.

Helloisitteaurlookingfor · 08/08/2018 22:47

When i lived at my parents my mum would wake me up by shouting my name and I would respond by calling back 'yes'. This became embarrassing when my boyfriend, now DH, stayed over one night and I woke him up in the middle of the night by shouting 'yes' as I had dreamt my mum was waking me up. Oops

Jamiefraserskilt · 08/08/2018 22:55

Last night he woke me up kicking me really hard,
Me: WTF?!
Him: that fucking bastard, Phil Mitchell, he deserves a good kicking!
Rolls over and snores
We don't even watch Eastenders!

plominoagain · 08/08/2018 22:59

Both DS2 and 3 are the sleep chatters in this house . DS2 combines it with sleepwalking , which was bad enough when it meant having a 3 year old looming moon face at you at 2am , saying “the elephants peanuts have been stolen and he’s not very happy” . Even worse when you wake at 3am to find the same now 19 year old DS looming over you in the dark telling you solemnly “ We’re in touch with France “

DS3 once announced to me , aged 4 in a mid sleeper “I’m a strawberry “

Then stood straight up and pissed on me . Triffic .