Crazy Experience With Sleep Walking And Talking

[ggsparky]

Was not diagnosed with ptsd but have crazy experiences at night. I'm fascinated really but it's scary too sometimes and funny. Ever since I started dreaming as a kid I've had really visual nightmares I might just have a crazy imagination but it's sad that I have multiple nightmares and never good dreams ever.

I'm 23 now and I've had boyfriend cheet and have really visual nightmares of that for years now so annoying. It's bad cuz it effects me and I cant tell what's reality I feel like I never face what I'm feeling and it always comes out in a nightmare. Also this if the crazy part but idk I use to sleep walk to my kitchen as a kid and remember doing it but not knowing why but I now sleep talk and sometimes hit and throw things and get up walk and lay back down and I remember it all! Doesn't a sleep walker not remember stuff?

Last night for example I grabbed my husbands blankets and started pushing him yelling for him not to push the button. He woke up saying what the heck? I stopped and said crap I'm dreaming and went to bed feeling bad that I freaked him out and took all his blankets.

So does anyone else sleep talk and sleep walk and actually remember everything? This happeds every night almost

 

[Deleted member 1860]

Hi,
Have you been traumatized and just aren't diagnosed yet?

 

[EvenStrongerNow]

Have you seen a sleep specialist?

 

[nomedic1]

Have had one or two incidences

 

[ggsparky]

Yes, I have not been diagnosed. No StrongerNow no I have not. I don't have money to do that and nomdic1, you have? What were they like if you don't mind me asking?

 

[ggsparky]

@nomedic1 do you remember everything you do as if you were awake? But what you're saying or doing is outta your control like a dream?

I'm trying to determine if this is stress related or I just have some sleep disorder. I might have to get checked out but I'm really not bothered by this just wondering if anyone else can relate.

 

[Bedbug]

I can relate, @ggsparky. I do this a lot and have done all my life.

Most recently I woke my husband up to look at a bird's nest on our headboard. I chatted away for a couple of minutes about how cute the baby birds were before thinking, "Hang on, that's not very likely. And it's pitch black in here. How can I see the birds? I'm dreaming, aren't I?" I'll often pull all the covers off the bed because I can see spiders on the sheets, again in pitch darkness. I'll argue with my husband while he tries to convince me I'm dreaming. Sometimes I'll realise that he's right but other times I'll stay in my dream but agree to shut up and lie down (in the bed with spiders in it - eek!).

I'll also get up and walk around doing things in my sleep. Sometimes I am fully aware that I'm dreaming, or at least I think it's likely that I'm dreaming because what I'm doing is a bit strange, in the dark, in the middle of the night, but I carry on regardless. After a while I take myself back to bed, remembering everything as if I had been fully awake the whole time.

I've also done lots of things and had lots of conversations which I don't remember but which my husband tells me about the next day. However, usually I do remember and have to apologise for waking him up. Again.

I must be awful to sleep with.

 

[Abstract]

Sometimes adult sleep walking has nothing to do with psychological stress and hereditary and other factors can be the reason someone sleep walks. If you are that way inclined then being stressed can make the incidents much worse! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somnambulism

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasomnia

I feel like I never face what I'm feeling and it always comes out in a nightmare.

I think this is very important to look at this and a good therapist would help you a lot with something such as this. Having nightmares all the time is a sign of emotional distress.

On a personal note I don't tend to remember when I sleep walk or talk most of the time but do mix up dream and reality a lot.

 

[EvenStrongerNow]

@ggsparky are you in the US? I ask because the new health exchanges get everyone covered with subsidies.

My sister was a sleep walker. Abstract is correct. Sometimes it can be hereditary. I was also a sleep walker, but not like my sister. Me, when I was little, I thought the kitchen drawers were the *cough* potty :D but I woke up during it.

My sister though had the night terrors/nightmares and her sleep walking was bad. My mom had to get more than one dead bolt on the door so she couldn't reach because one night she went outside. My mom freaked when she found her on the front porch asleep.

 

[Abstract]

I thought the kitchen drawers were the *cough* potty but

Oh dear! :wideeyed: :laugh:

 

[Bedbug]

I mix up dream and reality a lot too. I have quite a few memories which I can't say for sure actually happened or were just dreams. Since I recovered my memories of childhood abuse, this has caused me a lot of distress.

Sometimes I will have nightmares about the abuse. These nightmares start like flashbacks in my sleep, the details are exactly the same each time, but then the memories often become distorted and changed in the nightmare. For example, my abuser will start to refer to things that didn't happen until later in my life, or I will react in different ways to the same initial events. Usually in my dream I react more aggressively than I did at the time. I will punch, kick, bite and shout at my abuser, sometimes acting out in my sleep and waking up my husband beside me, sometimes deliberately waking him up to look at what my abuser is doing. (I have made a point of not telling my husband too much detail about what happened to me because I don't think it's fair for him to have these images in his head too, so I really hate that I unwittingly reveal so much to him in my sleep.)

I am already struggling with self-doubt about the abuse. I have no evidence or witnesses, just my own memories. I worry that all my memories of being abused may only be dreams after all. This feeds right into my insecurities that I am a fraud, a faker, an attention-seeker. My dreamed reactions to remembered situations also feed into all the self-blame and self-hatred I am battling with. If only I had reacted like that in real life, perhaps the abuse would have stopped.

I cant tell what's reality I feel like I never face what I'm feeling and it always comes out in a nightmare.

Addressing what I experience in these nightmares has been really important. I still struggle with the idea that I've dreamt up a whole abusive childhood story, but in my heart I know that's not true and that it really happened. The ways that my sleeping mind relives the memories and transforms them has actually been helpful. It has forced me to think about the abuse and is forcing me to face what I feel. I am far more forgiving and accepting of myself now.

I am glad that I remember so much of my dreams and nightmares, although I wouldn't say that when I wake up screaming in the middle of the night! And neither would my husband!

 

[DharmaGirl]

I have been told I talk a lot and scream in my sleep. I also walk. Last week I woke up as I was falling to the floor. Ouch. It"s not the first time. My dear Nugget will wake me up by barking if I get too loud or cry, I wish I could train her to bark when I'm sleepwalking. Or sleep eating.