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Sleep walking

EV0LUTION

EV0LUTION

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Jul 21, 2008
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I have only done this once before in a french hotel, I walked down a flight of stares and fell asleep next to the elevator woke up at 2 in the morning. I researched what causes sleep walking and the main cause was an unfamiliar sleeping environment, so I shrugged it off assuming the hotel was unfamiliar and the cause of my walking. I locked myself in my room so I couldn't leave for the rest of trip.

Well I randomly started sleepwalking again. Today I woke up on the living room floor at 4 o'clock in the morning, which is on the other side of my house and a floor bellow my bedroom. I was in my house so it's completely familiar to me.

I don't know what I did last night or where I went, and worried I'll do it again tomorrow night. Has anyone had trouble with this? or know how to stop it?
 
I sleepwalk occasionally, but it's never caused me any problems so I haven't really looked into it. I guess I'm lucky that I haven't ever had a sleepwalking episode in a hotel, but then again I always use the chain lock when I go to bed.

I just looked it up on wikipedia and it claims that sleepwalking is more common when stressed, but that hasn't been the case for me. My sleepwalking episodes have seemingly been random.

The article also says that sleepwalking decreases with age, so there's a little bit of light at the end of the tunnel.
 
I've never done this but both my brother and sister do. Even to the point that my sister has to sleep in a locked room if shes in a tall building, years back she was caught sleepwalking and stood right on the edge of a balcony.
My bro's done some really crazy things. One time whilst sleepwalking he put his entire duvet, sheets and pillows in the bath!

The buggers also talk in their sleep which can be quite creepy at times.
 
This has happened to me too, but only happened once. When i was little say about 8 or 9 i woke up to find my self in the shower fully clothed standing up right and my dad trying to figure out what was going on.

But i have no memory on how i got in the shower, managed to get the water going without burning my self and how i got back to my room.
 
well I've set the webcams in my house up to detect motion so If I do sleep walk I'll at least now where I went.
 
Oh, Interesting. Though I've never done this, atleast not to my knowledge.. Has anyone researched into it, as to what may cause sleepwalking??

I remember watching something on Tv a few years ago. About some dude who murdered someone, while he was sleep walking....
 
I used to sleep walk when I was about 5-7 years old. Actually I did it quite regularly. But I never remembered anything in the morning. My Dad told me about it. I don't know why I did it, probably just randomly but now it's gone.
 
UltraNEO* said:
Oh, Interesting. Though I've never done this, atleast not to my knowledge.. Has anyone researched into it, as to what may cause sleepwalking??

I remember watching something on Tv a few years ago. About some dude who murdered someone, while he was sleep walking....
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that's not good...

I did it again last night and it looks really funny. I walked into walls for about half an hour then went back to sleep (if that's what you call it) on the floor of my bedroom. I didn't leave my room this time.
 
EV0LUTION said:
I did it again last night and it looks really funny. I walked into walls for about half an hour then went back to sleep (if that's what you call it) on the floor of my bedroom. I didn't leave my room this time.
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Hmm.. Madchester!! :eek:

A man who beat his father to death while sleepwalking hopes to be freed under human rights legislation.

 Jules Lowe was cleared of murdering his 83-year-old father Eddie on the grounds that he was temporarily insane.

But the 32-year-old, of Walkden, Greater Manchester, was sectioned indefinitely under mental health laws by the judge at Manchester Crown Court.
Simon Blakebrough, his lawyer, said Mr Lowe was not insane and should therefore be released.

He said the trial judge had no choice but to impose a hospital order on him as Mr Lowe had been charged with murder.



He is currently in custody at Manchester Prison until a place in a secure psychiatric unit becomes available.

But his lawyers argue he would not be a threat to society, if released.
"He's not been judged by both the prosecution and defence experts in the case to be a dangerous person," said Mr Blakebrough.

"[They] certainly seem to conclude that, if he abstained from alcohol, which was the major trigger for his sleepwalking, then the likelihood of even a sleepwalking episode at all would be reduced down to a minimum.

"The difficulty we have is that the judge didn't have any discretion to impose another order."

'Detailed tests'
His legal team were investigating whether the judge's order was compatible with Mr Lowe's right to liberty under the Human Rights Act, he added.
Mr Lowe's father was found dead on the drive of his house in Windmill Lane, Walkden, in October 2003. He had 90 separate injuries to his body.
Prosecution lawyers alleged he killed him in a drunken brawl and then blanked the incident out.
He underwent "the most detailed scientific tests in British legal history" in an effort to recreate the conditions of the night in question.
Mr Lowe told police his only memory of events was drinking into the night with his father at their home.
He denied murder on the grounds of "automatism".

source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/manchester/4389883.stm
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