Sleepwalking and stuff...

[.Killswitch.]

Ok so this happened to me a few weeks ago. It's pretty wierd, and it kinda freaks me out.

I called my girlfriend while I was on break at work, and she starts yelling at me. (This really happened btw.) She was saying stuff like "What the hell was wrong with you this morning? You scared the sh*t out of me!" Stuff like that. She was really pissed at me for some reason, but I had no idea why. After a day and a half I finally convinced her that I honestly had no idea what she was talking about.

According to her I called her up around 4 in the morning and told her to come down because it was an emergency, then I hung up. She kept calling me back but I didn't answer. So she drives down to my apt. which is about a half hour away. She finds me asleep at my kitchen table fully dressed with my poker table folded out. Then apparently she woke me up and I didn't say anything, I just went straight to my couch and fell back to sleep. She tried to wake me up again and I said "I'll do it tommorow, I'm trying to sleep." So she thought I was joking, and stormed out. When I woke up, I was in my bed and had no reccolection as to what happened. I got up, took a shower, and went to work. A few hours later is when I called her.

When she told me what happened I got really freaked out. Because the night of 'the incident' I had a dream where I was having a party and I invited a bunch of people. I set up my poker stuff and put out all the liquor on the bar. I knew it was a dream, because my apartment was awesome looking and had all this wierd crap in it. Well...my apartment does have wierd crap in it, but it was even wierder in the dream. Plus I don't have a bar. In the dream, the path from my bedroom to the kitchen is exactly the same as in reality.I'm assuming while I was having the dream, I actually did what I did while I was dreaming it.

The really really wierd part is that while I was in the shower that morning, I remembered having a completely different dream. For the record I have never sleepwalked (that I can remember). I would know because I lived with my parents up until a few months ago and they would have told me. Anyone else have similar experiences?

[SegaDragon]

Anything you can do awake, you can do asleep.

I used to sleep walk, and every time I did, it involved a fan. Once (many, many years ago), I woke up, walked over to the fan and tried turning it off from underneath, when the off-switch is on top. My dad asked what I was doing, and I gave some weird answer, so he ignored me. The next time, I woke up, he asked what I was doing just sitting in bed staring at the fan, and I said that I needed goggles; so he told me to go back to sleep, and I did. I remember needing goggles, 'cause in my dream, the fan was hurting my eyes (I just woke up and was staring at a fan...).

And another time I slept-walked, I woke up, got dressed, went into my dad's room, laid on his bed, and went to sleep. I woke up fully clothed in his bed, and didn't even wonder why until my dad told me. I actually thought I fell asleep on his bed fully clothed, forgetting I actually fell asleep in my bed in my pajamas. And I remember being in third person when I was changing from my pajamas to my clothes. This was a long time ago, and I'm pretty sure I haven't slept-walked since then, but seeing as how waking up in another person's bed fully clothed wouldn't trigger the thought that I might have been sleep walking, I probably have.

[Indiana]

Ok so this happened to me a few weeks ago. It's pretty wierd, and it kinda freaks me out.

I called my girlfriend while I was on break at work, and she starts yelling at me. (This really happened btw.) She was saying stuff like "What the hell was wrong with you this morning? You scared the sh*t out of me!" Stuff like that. She was really pissed at me for some reason, but I had no idea why. After a day and a half I finally convinced her that I honestly had no idea what she was talking about.

According to her I called her up around 4 in the morning and told her to come down because it was an emergency, then I hung up. She kept calling me back but I didn't answer. So she drives down to my apt. which is about a half hour away. She finds me asleep at my kitchen table fully dressed with my poker table folded out. Then apparently she woke me up and I didn't say anything, I just went straight to my couch and fell back to sleep. She tried to wake me up again and I said "I'll do it tommorow, I'm trying to sleep." So she thought I was joking, and stormed out. When I woke up, I was in my bed and had no reccolection as to what happened. I got up, took a shower, and went to work. A few hours later is when I called her.

When she told me what happened I got really freaked out. Because the night of 'the incident' I had a dream where I was having a party and I invited a bunch of people. I set up my poker stuff and put out all the liquor on the bar. I knew it was a dream, because my apartment was awesome looking and had all this wierd crap in it. Well...my apartment does have wierd crap in it, but it was even wierder in the dream. Plus I don't have a bar. In the dream, the path from my bedroom to the kitchen is exactly the same as in reality.I'm assuming while I was having the dream, I actually did what I did while I was dreaming it.

The really really wierd part is that while I was in the shower that morning, I remembered having a completely different dream. For the record I have never sleepwalked (that I can remember). I would know because I lived with my parents up until a few months ago and they would have told me. Anyone else have similar experiences?


Are you on any sleep-aids right now? I've been hearing how Ambien, and Lunesta and another drug have been making people do some wierd stuff when they're sleeping like they go out and drive there cars and get into wrecks and stuff. If you're not on one of these you may have just not gone into the further stages of REM sleep that night or something because isn't it true when you go through all the stages your body kind of enters a paralysis mode....or something of the sort.

[Schteve]

Ew, sleep-driving your car. That's a scary thought.

Tommy Boy once sleep-stole his laptop from under his dad's bed. :paranoid:

[Slingshot]

Ahahaha.

I have a fear of sleep walking. If I have a strange and realistic dream I start freaking out thinking I might of done that in my sleep.

[.Killswitch.]

Are you on any sleep-aids right now?

No, but at the time I was taking Tylenol severe cold and allergy pills. I was taking about 8 a day. I'm not sure if that would case me to do that, but you never know. I have never taken any sleep-related medication.

BTW, the Tylenols were the daytime pills, if that makes a difference.

[Indiana]

No, but at the time I was taking Tylenol severe cold and allergy pills. I was taking about 8 a day. I'm not sure if that would case me to do that, but you never know. I have never taken any sleep-related medication.

BTW, the Tylenols were the daytime pills, if that makes a difference.

holy **** 8 a day is that even in the vicinity of the recommended dosage per 24 hours or am I just stupid for thinking 8 per day is a lot. Maybe that particular night your brain just decided it was time for a big info process or something. Who knows the mind is a strange strange mystery.

[XD_Man]

That's really weird. Something weird also happened to me a few years ago.

I was being moved to another room (I had to share one) and I was really happy. So I got to sleep on a bed in that room before we moved everything in. But the next morning, my mom told me that she woke up to see me carrying and unloading boxes with my stuff, eyes fully shut at 1:30 am!

[Cody.]

No, but at the time I was taking Tylenol severe cold and allergy pills. I was taking about 8 a day. I'm not sure if that would case me to do that, but you never know. I have never taken any sleep-related medication.

BTW, the Tylenols were the daytime pills, if that makes a difference.
Im sure that the Tylenols had something to do with this, if something this big isn't common for you, then I would imagine it being the pills.

Do have previous experiences of sleepwalking? if so, I would probably ask a doctor if something like this happens again, if would probably be a safe thing to do too.

[Indiana]

If they were daytime I'm not sure how they would do that....although were the allergy pills something like Benedryl? Because Benedryl is the same exact thing as Simply Sleep by Tylenol the active ingredient is the same anyway. That might be why....

[Tiki]

Tylenol goes into your blood stream, which means the brain too, i think that they are a big part of the sleep walking, but i don't think that they are the only factor, do you take any other "blood stream" meds?

[.Killswitch.]

holy **** 8 a day is that even in the vicinity of the recommended dosage per 24 hours or am I just stupid for thinking 8 per day is a lot. Maybe that particular night your brain just decided it was time for a big info process or something. Who knows the mind is a strange strange mystery.

Directly from the box:
- Take 2 caplets every 4 to 6 hours as needed
- Do not exceed more than 8 caplets in 24 hours.

It was probably the worst cold I've ever had. I could barely breathe.

Do have previous experiences of sleepwalking? if so, I would probably ask a doctor if something like this happens again, if would probably be a safe thing to do too.

No, I have never sleepwalked in my life. Nothing has happened since I stopped taking them, no I'm not really concerned about it anymore.

[Tiki]

No, I have never sleepwalked in my life. Nothing has happened since I stopped taking them, no I'm not really concerned about it anymore.
Well, if nothing happens anymore, then they were probably A cause

[Schteve]

holy **** 8 a day is that even in the vicinity of the recommended dosage per 24 hours or am I just stupid for thinking 8 per day is a lot.Usual doses are two pills, and they will recommend doing it like every six hours, so that's fine.

Although if you rarely have medication, that's probably more than you should be doing.

[Indiana]

Tylenols just generally not a medication that's going to have a side effect like if any side effect were to happen from you taking that many it'd be you burning out your liver. Have you sleep walked anymore after that one night?

[.Killswitch.]

Tylenols just generally not a medication that's going to have a side effect like if any side effect were to happen from you taking that many it'd be you burning out your liver. Have you sleep walked anymore after that one night?

No, not singe that night. I'm not too worried about liver damage, since I very rarely take any kind of medication.

Not *since* that night.

[Cody.]

Then it was most likely the pills then, because your body wouldn't go from never sleepwalking to basically acting out a problem asleep, something that serious had to be caused by something so if you don't have any more experiences before or after, you should be fine, just watch the daytime pills.

[Indiana]

No, not singe that night. I'm not too worried about liver damage, since I very rarely take any kind of medication.

Not *since* that night.

Doesn't really matter if you take pills often or not it's just a hard drug for your liver to prcess they bond that stuff with hydrocodone so people cant take more than the recommended does because their liver will fail. Go easy on the Tylenol....if you're not in pain very much take Sudafed instead.

[Tiki]

judging from what you have told us, i don't think that you need to worry anymore, and it is most DEFINATLY the pills