My 16 year old DS just scared me to death - neurological

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My 16 year old DS has just finished his GCSEs and is due to play football with his friends. I just went to wake him up, he sat up and his eyes were open. I asked him what time he was going and he mumbled a word I couldn't make out whilst touching each of his fingers off his thumb. I asked him again and he repeated the same word and hand gesture. I then asked if he was ok and same again. For the next couple of minutes I got the same response to every question, to the point where I thought something was seriously wrong. Finally he seemed to snap out of it and started speaking normally. The thing that freaked me out the most was for question I asked he responded with the same word and hand gesture. My rational self tells me he had probably been in a really deep sleep and was only half awake, my anxious self is worried something else might be going on.

I'd get him checked out just to be safe then sorry

Glitch in the matrix!

What does he remember/think about it? He's 16, so it's really up to him if he feels he'd like medical advice or not.

Has he been stressed over his exams at all?

I used to have conversations in my sleep as a teen and still do as an adult. DH knows not to talk to me about anything important if I'm falling/have just been asleep!

What does your DS think about it?

At that age, I used to talk as though I was in a trance if I'd just 'woken' up. It was part of my sleepwalking. None of anything I said made sense according to my parents.

I used to do something similar as a teenager. It really freaked my family out. I would be up and walking about, talking as if I was awake but I would have a strange glassy stare and wide eyes, like I was in a trance. I once scared my brother half to death as he said it was like I was possessed! Someone just used to walk me back to bed and I'd go back to sleep. I never remembered it happening and would just get told about it the next day. I grew out of it once I got to my late teens.

Probably no harm in having him checked out. Could of been sleep related. Should rule out seziural especially with the finger thing.

Thanks for your replies, I've made light of it so he's finding it quite funny at the moment. He remembers me asking him what time football was and asking if his hand was ok. I did wonder whether it could be related to him being stressed about his exams, he does tend to internalise things. It was just so weird, the finger tapping and word repetition being in perfect unison.

If he remembers it I would get it checked out.

He's 16, so it's really up to him if he feels he'd like medical advice or not.

I just don't understand this response.

PhD, does the fact he remembers some of what I said an indicator that it wasn't just sleep related?

He's 16, so it's really up to him if he feels he'd like medical advice or not.

I just don't understand this response

There's a lot on MN that doesn't make sense, but that's what you get when talking to faceless people on the internet.

He's 16, so it's really up to him if he feels he'd like medical advice or not.

"I just don't understand this response."

Neither do I. In my experience not all 16 year olds know what is good for them or when they need medical attention.

He maybe 16 and able to make a decision himself legally about medical care but he may be worth a trip to the doctors tomorrow for a check up. It may very well be stress related. But this is the Internet , arm chair doctors and all that. Best get checked out.

Get him checked out, but I saw on child of our time that physiological stress indicators around exam times are very high: could explain lots of things! DH did stuff like this as a young adult (he was under lots of stress).

Made an appointment for next Friday, but need to call if anything else happens and they'll get him seen straight away.