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To ask for your best sleep talking/walking stories

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TiredAndaBitBored · 01/05/2019 07:07

I very rarely talk in my sleep however apparently last night I nudged DH awake and asked him to check the little man was still in the cupboard.

I've no idea what I was dreaming but DH confirmed there was in fact, no little man in our cupboard.

Anyone else?

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FannyFeatures · 01/05/2019 07:14

Apparently, I once woke DH up at 3am to get his national insurance number and tax code. It was urgent because the police were at the door demanding it.

He said I was sitting bolt upright and my eyes were open but I was snoring lightly instead of breathing whilst I was talking and freaked him right out 🤔😁

K456789 · 01/05/2019 07:20

On a regular basis I'll get up and change my clothes in the middle of the night. I'll go to bed in PJs and wake up in jeans and a jumper. I'm 36 and have been doing this since childhood.

CheeseIsEverything · 01/05/2019 08:49

Little man in the cupboard Grin

My mum told me that my auntie used to sleep walk a lot when they were younger. She'd wake up to find her just sitting at the bottom of her bed facing away Blush I watch too many scary films for that shit.

PipperPop · 01/05/2019 16:08

My mother told me that I was crying in my sleep once, she came to wake me up and see if I was okay and I apparently looked at her dead on and said she was going to get hurt if she touched me.

I was only about 10 and not a violent bone in my body!!! Blush

Samind · 01/05/2019 16:15

Hahaha this has given me a good giggle! Thank you and placemarking Wink

JellySlice · 01/05/2019 16:27

I used to sleep talk all the time, and occasionally sleep walk, too. And have night terrors. The frequency of all of these reduced massively when my dh moved in. But whenever we have a family room in a hotel, I say something weird.

I have told dh to "get off the frog" . (But 'the frog', whatever it was, was in the dc's bed, so why was I bothering dh when he was in our bed?)

I have complained about having my arms shaved.

I have told people to "put it on the roof. No! The table!"

I usually sleep-talk in English, but when we go to France I often sleep-talk in my mother tongue, which is not French.

Mind you, dh can't laugh. He sleep-eats. Usually just lip-smacking chewing motions, sometimes also hand movements, occasionally he gets a bowl of cereal and mimes pouring in the milk!

thelist · 01/05/2019 16:32

My brother slept walked while we were on holiday in France when he was about 14. He woke up three streets away wrapped in a sheet, luckily he found an English family to help him.

Karwomannghia · 01/05/2019 16:40

My flat mate slept walked out of our flat in a tower in the middle of the night and the door locked behind her. She went upstairs and knocked on the door of a neighbour and woke up when he answered and wasn’t impressed. Can’t remember what she was wearing. When she woke up she was knocking on our flat door for ages, I woke and went to the loo, must have heard her at some level and she saw me by looking through the letterbox and shouted to let her back in. She was often there on her own it’s lucky I was living with her at that time!

stitchwitch84 · 01/05/2019 16:59

These have given me a good laugh, especially the little man and the imaginary cereal!

The other night I woke both DH and myself up growling loudly. DH put a hand on me and said, "It's alright!" to which I responded, "I was trying to scare the bear…"

It was living in one of the cupboards of our bedroom, apparently.

My roommate at school used to tell me all about the long conversations I'd have in my sleep. I also used to scream quite frequently, apparently. I've mostly grown out of it!

GarthFunkel · 01/05/2019 17:11

I was carrying DS4 who was about 6 at the time from our bed into his - DS1 was still up. I said to DS4 "say goodnight to DS1" as I carried him past DS1's room and this beautiful, angelic sleeping child opened his eyes, looked right at DS1, raised his middle finger, then went back to sleep. It was perfect timing Grin

IntoValhalla · 01/05/2019 17:14

I’m notorious for talking in my sleep Blush
My personal favourite that DH recorded in his phone was the in depth conversation I had with Jon Bon Jovi about his food preferences as we were having a Chinese with Meatloaf and Barack Obama Blush

WeeDangerousSpike · 01/05/2019 17:19

My DF sleepwalks. As a mid teen living with his parents still he went downstairs, unlocked and went out the back door, unlocked the car and was sat in the drivers seat trying to start it when his DB found him Shock

I once disturbed my then BF and another couple by sleep swimming. Apparently its noisy and not very restful if someone's doing front crawl in bed. Grin

b0bb1n · 01/05/2019 17:29

I am not a regular sleep talker at all but apparently on our honeymoon I said to my husband in my sleep, 'I was going to ask you when you'd like your piece of the sliced duck bread', or something along those lines.

It was because earlier that day we had been looking at ducks by a lake and we said how the ones sat on the grass with their wings tucked in looked like little loaves of bread lol.

MotherOfTheNoise · 01/05/2019 17:32

My DH woke me up one night being very aggressive saying "could you just please hand it over? Now! I won't say it ask again" I asked what he wanted and he said the red cabbage and apple in the bowl as he needed it for the rabbits. He is the least aggressive person ever, and we don't have rabbits. We do like red cabbage and apple though. Asked him about it in the morning and he had not got the foggiest what I was on about 😂

Ginnotgym · 01/05/2019 17:35

My sister used to sleepwalk thinking her feet were where her knees are (so walking around on her knees) 🤣

All fun and games until stairs are involved.....

IntoValhalla · 01/05/2019 17:40

WeeDangerousSpike Shock Thank god he was found!!! Shock
I’ve heard of people unlocking doors and stuff before - my Dsis did it a few times as a teenager - but never getting in a car!! Shock

My dd sleep talks sometimes too but her outbursts are usually quite funny! When she was about 3 and a half (we still bedshared quite often up until recently), she rolled over and muttered “but there’s so much gravy” Confused

Myworstnightmare123 · 01/05/2019 17:41

My sister..... opened the window of her bedroom and out she went.

Mightywease · 01/05/2019 17:42

DS age 7 regularly talks in his sleep.

Recently highlights have been him shouting from his bedroom at 4am in the morning
"Daddy.... Daddy"
"What?"
"I need to ask Mummy something!"
Me: (in bed next to Daddy but getting up to go and see him): "What is it?"
"..... What did you like about today?"
By the time I got to his room (literally across the landing) he was fast asleep and had no knowledge of this exchange in the morning!

The other was after he'd fallen alseep next to me suddenly sitting up and saying "I'll stop you with a whistle!!"

pintsizedblondie · 01/05/2019 17:43

I once woke my DF up and asked him if he knew where little owls were made. In the little owl factory apparently... Hmm

naturistmum · 01/05/2019 17:48

When I was young (small enough to be carried), my mum sleep walked to my room and carried me downstairs saying she could smell gas. She only woke up when the cold air hit her from opening the back door. Apparently I slept through it all.

She still shouts random things in her sleep - often sounding terrified. She used to work night shifts and obviously slept during the day. My dad was convinced the police would show up one day as she'd sleep with the windows open in the summer and was convinced people would think she was being murdered!

NotSoThinLizzy · 01/05/2019 17:59

I woke myself up the other night slapping the shit out of my face and arms I was dreaming there was bugs under my skin urgh. There was the time I was screaming because the robot with 8 legs was pulling me off the bed. OH shat himself pulling me out of that one 😂

FannyCann · 01/05/2019 18:14

When DD1 was small I would whisper positive thoughts into her ear when checking on her before going to bed. One night I said "Mrs W (her preschool teacher) says you're a very clever girl". She sat bolt upright and said "I know that anyway Fanny" and carried on sleeping.
I didn't bother with the positive reinforcement so much after that. Hmm

Jebuschristchocolatebar · 01/05/2019 18:23

Dh has form for sleepwalking in unfamiliar places. We stayed in a hotel one night and he ended up walking down the corridor in his boxers. Luckily I noticed fairly quickly he had gone and retrieved him.

PinotAndPlaydough · 01/05/2019 18:28

I do stupid shit in my sleep all the time. Memorable ones included leaving the house chasing a dream child around the garden (was working in a special needs school at the time with a child that liked to bolt), pulling everything out the wardrobe because I thought a child was in there, pushing my husband out of bed so that the bugs didn’t get him and recently we had a noise complaint about people screaming in the middle of the night.... I strongly suspect this was me as I woke everyone in our house too because I was convinced there was a bird flying around the house.

username1724 · 01/05/2019 18:31

My dd sleepwalks and still has night terrors from about 18 months until now (8yo). She has peed in her drawer, tried to pee in the kitchen bin, on the kitchen floor, and often gets lost looking for the toilet. Night terrors are a bit more scary, it's like shes possessed! Shell cry, shout, wont recognise anyone, just roams round calling for me even though I'm right next to her. Last time she ran to me from her room to the sofa, stopped dead in front of me and just locked eyes in a creepy trance. Then started just slowly leaning towards me at which point I woke her up. She has huge blue eyes and was giving me a full on death stare 🤣

OH tries to have sex with me constantly when hes asleep. Like he will be snoring even sometimes. I've woken up with him mid swing of foreplay before, I trust him implicitly so it's more amusing than anything. As soon as hes woken up he just says sorry and goes back to sleep within a second. He will also wake me up from time to time to ask 'what is your problem?' He is 100% asleep though 🤣