sleepwalking

TAZ · 02-10-2003, 19:11

sleepwalking and sleeptalking what's all that about is it in your genes it gets me in so much trouble and i never win a fight?

littlemo · 02-10-2003, 21:07

dop you really want to know about this? don't forget, I work in this field and could rabbit on for hours about it!

HarryX · 02-10-2003, 21:16

littlemo how are you on nightmares?

littlemo · 03-10-2003, 23:35

I married one, is that what you mean?!!!! ;D

Mik Dickinson · 05-10-2003, 10:18

I reckon its all to do with the subconscious but am willing to be educated on this subject

littlemo · 05-10-2003, 11:11

I don't really get into analising dreams but can tell you that we dream in all sleep stages. our most vivid is REM, this is when the body goes into a state of paralysis, other wise we would be acting them out! most sleep walking, talking ect occurs in slow wave sleep, which is the deepest stage.

Caz · 05-10-2003, 11:32

Any information on sleep paralysis littlemo?
Why does it seem to happen to some people (me included) on a fairly regular basis?

littlemo · 05-10-2003, 20:46

umm cazzer, is it when you wake up in the morning and how long does it last for?

Caz · 05-10-2003, 21:10

No, it's usually in the middle of the night, when I've been asleep quite a while.
Can't move at all, can't talk, but can see. Plus get this scary feeling that something is not quite right, like someone in the house or something like that.
Try to get out of it, but more often than not, cos I'm so tired I fall back asleep.
when I first told my family this they said I dreamt it, until they heard of others with the same thing.

Usually seems to be 5 mins or so.

Jo · 06-10-2003, 07:38

A similar thing happens to me regularly Cazzer. I half open my eyes and the shadows and shapes in the room seem like people. Then I realise what's happening and I bolt upright and scream usually. Frighten my hubby to death. After years of this, I began telling myself, after seeing the things or people, "come on Jo, you know they're not really there", then I open my eyes and see they were really there and then I think "God this time it's really true". The dreams have now advanced and I don't see people but I open my my eyes and think I'm dead.
Same process "come on Jo, you're not dead" then I think "Oh, God, this ime I really am".
The other night I got out of bed and went into the living room where my hubby was watching a game of footy (I'd gone to bed early) to ask him (seriously) if I was alive!!!!!
Weird eh?

HarryX · 06-10-2003, 08:54

Jo Cazzer.. Anyone.....Try www.sleepnet.com I ahve had sleep problems all my life and have been diagnosed with everyhting from epilepsy to sleep terrors.

Seems my body and my brain go to sleep at different times

Try the forums on the above site. explain your problems and believe me you will have loads of people from around the world replying wiht exactly the same problems

I last used this site..hmm must be a few years ago now.. so its well established..

Jo · 06-10-2003, 09:47

Great thanks Harry!  

littlemo · 06-10-2003, 12:26

and do any of you suffer from cataplexy, thats when you can be laughing say and then you just pass out? sleepnet.com is a good one harry, I use that often, but at the end of the day, you should really talk to your doctor. Sleep paralysis can be part of something bigger such as narcolopsy. This would be confirmed by a particular test that would be completed in a sleep lab, well It would over here, I don't know about over there. I think there is a lab at withenshaw hospital I do believe

littlemo · 06-10-2003, 12:31

Cazzer, it usually happens at the end of a REM period which occurs at the end of every sleep cycle which last around 90 mins. so it can happen during the night but is most common first thing in the morning as that is your longest rem period. When in REM, you body is in a state of paralysis, what happens is almost like your mind being awake before your body, and your eyes being open before you finished dreaming. Would that fit the description?

Tealeaf · 06-10-2003, 12:37

How do you know you sleepwalk?