Does anyone have children that sleepwalk

[Disneynutbsv]

and look awake??? My daughter has started to do this and she's scared of something and I can't get her to sleep. Right now, she's going up and down the hallway, shaking and I can't get her to stop or go lay down or anything. I don't know how to help her

 

[DisneyAddict_M]

They say it's best not to wake a sleepwalker. Several months ago, my dd (who was 4 at the time) woke up while I was watching TV. She walked into the living room and just stared at me with a blank look. I called her name and she completely ignored me. Then she turned and walked towards the door. She ended up running into the wall. She backed up from the wall and just stood there, swaying. I picked her up and brought her back to bed. She never woke up. It was very creepy.

 

[Disneynutbsv]

My daughter talks to me while she's sleepwalking, I'll ask her a question and she'll mumble an answer that I can't understand. She gets afraid of her own room

 

[eeyore kelly]

My DS used to do this when he was little. I always just guided him back to bed. A word of safety- it this happens fairly often, you might want to latch hook locks on all doors to outside where your DD can't reach them

 

[simba928]

My brother does that sometimes. A couple weeks ago when we were in Florida, he got out of bed and walked over to the foot of the bed where my dad was sitting. My dad asked him whats wrong and my bro mumbled an answer. My dad said "what?" and my bro said, fairly clearly, "nothing". Then he went back to bed. It was kind of strange.

Last year, at band camp, a friend of mine got up, went downstairs to the guys floor and into the guys bathroom. Our instructor went down to get her and the instructor said "what are you doing?". My friend said "I had to go to the bathroom." Our instructor sent her back up to her room. She was asleep the entire time. The next morning she got up and was like "I had the strangest dream. I went downstairs and was in the guys bathroom. It was green." And the bathroom IS green. Kinda creepy.

 

[Tigger&Belle]

My 12yo son used to sleepwalk. One time we were thankfully still awake and he tried to walk into the garage. Another time he went into the bathroom to go to the bathroom, but peed all over the floor. Another time he went to the bathroom in the toilet and then went to wash his hands, but he used toothpaste instead of soap.

I've never really woken him up, but would just put him back to bed.

I was at WDW a couple weeks ago with my 18yo DD. I woke up when my DD asked me what I was doing. I was at the window looking out--I'd had a dream that someone had knocked on our door and I was looking out the window to see who it was. Of course nobody was there. I hadn't walked in my sleep since I was a kid.

 

[Feralpeg]

My DD does it. Although, it seems to occur less often now that she is getting older. She would get up. Turn on lights. Talk to me. Move around. She wouldn't make much sense. She'd get very irritated with me when I'd tell her that she needed to go back to bed. She never appeared to be scared. It always freeked me out a little.

 

[makinorlando]

My DD (she was 6 at the time) did when we first moved to Orlando - made me very nervous, as we were are in a single story home with a pool not more than 6 feet from three doors that go out the back of the house. I was a wreck making sure all the doors were locked up tight every night.

It seems to have passed, although she does sit up in bed some times and hold conversations some nights.

My Dsis had told me to limit dairy in the evening before bedtime, her pediatrician when her kids were young (they are in their late 20s now) had suggested that for my nephew/

Her dad (my ex) used to sleepwalk that was aggravated by alcohol abuse , and one night I caught him peeing my my dryer. ewwww

 

[Sparx]

I sleep walk/sleep talk. If you ask me something I'll answer you. I wake up standing next to my bed sometimes. I'm used to it now. I would leave them alone, unless they might hurt themselves, then just direct tehm to their room. I find when I sleep walk it ties into my dream.

 

[MzDiz]

My son did this just last night! He walked into his sister's room, turned on the light and went to shut the door. Luckily, I was still up and asked what he was doing. He said he was "going to the bathroom". I told him he should do that in the bathroom. He said that someone was in there, and started getting a little irritated with me. I had to pull him out of the room and take him down the hall to the bathroom.
When he was about 7 (he's 13 now), I caught him peeing in the kitchen trash can. He *insisted* it was the toilet.
He talks in his sleep all the time too. Since our room is right across from his, we talk back. It's great to tell him things like "the hamster is stuck in the waffle node" and see what he comes up with as a response. I know, we're bad parents.

 

[ImarriedGrumpy]

I used to sleepwalk a lot. Most of the time I just got myself back into my room on my own. Sometimes, however, I'd be scared in my sleepwalking and my parents would gently lead me back to my room. Then they would hold my hand or rub my back and quietly talk to me or sing to me until I fell asleep again. In the morning I'd have no memory of the sleepwalking.

Once when I was in junior high, I walked into my parents bedroom, turned on the light, sat down on their bed and proceeded to tell them I'd had a nighmare about a scary snuffleupagus (you know, the big shaggy brown elephant-like critter on Sesame Street?). Needless to say, I didn't remember a moment of this the next morning, and I was horribly embarassed that as a young teenager I'd talked about a scary Snuffleupagus!

I also used to talk a lot in my sleep and even sing in my sleep. I did a lot of singing and was a voice major, and apparently whenever I was getting ready for a big performance I'd be rehearsing in my sleep!

 

[JennaTX]

A word of safety- it this happens fairly often, you might want to latch hook locks on all doors to outside where your DD can't reach them

I definately agree with this, I used to sleep walk when I was little, between the ages of 4-7. I once walked out of the house to check the mail, I looked down the street and "saw" something that scared me, and I ran back in the house. My parents had no idea until I slammed the door coming back inside. Until I was in 2nd grade, around 7 years old, I was only allowed to spend the night out with one of my girlfriends from church, our families were close to each other, and my parents knew they could trust them, so when I slept over, they would move their coffee table in front of the front door. I woke up quite a few times in front of it.

 

[Sleepy]

My family members used to call me Frosty when I was still living at home. My brother swears this happened, but I don't remember. he said I walked into his room late one night and woke him up because I was trying to take his blankets off his bed. He said I was asleep.

 

[pirateofthecarolinas]

My oldest DS was our sleep walking/talking child. One night he went into our mud room and peed all over a pair of shoes! EWWW! He'll never live that one down.

Lori

 

[Olaf]

When I was 13, I walked out of the house to catch the bus one morning and noticed that one of my blankets was on the roof of the car. After that, Mom and Dad put a chain on the door. I did it until I was well into my 20's. I used to wake up when I got stuck in a corner. DH you used to watch me and start laughing. Nice guy.

 

[Karel]

We had a scary thing happen at the Beach Club a few years ago. When we woke up in the morning, there was a phone message.

Apparently, our 11 year old was sleep walking and let himself out of the room. Some how, he ended up in the lobby and the nice overnight desk person brought him back. We think he woke up and found himself locked out and was able to tell the person his name.

My husband is a fairly light sleeper and we thought it was amazing that none of us (four) heard the door slam on his way out.

He's never done that before, that we know of, and the thought of what could have happen is frightening.

 

[agotta]

I used to sleep walk all the time as a kid. My grandparents lived downstairs in our raised ranch, and I would just stand at the foot of their bed. Best not to wake a sleepwalker. I grew out of it. I guess as long as they are not getting hurt... I mean I walked downstairs in my sleep and never got hurt.

 

[michelle9343]

My DS was a huge sleep walker when he was little 4-8 yrs old . Around age 18mths- 4 he had terrible night terrors, really scary. The Dr advise not to wake him just make sure he is safe. Now 8 yrs later he is a huge sleep talker. Really says some pretty funny things.

 

[Disneynutbsv]

Well, I let her just walk up and down the hallway and then she put herself to bed. Its just kind of scary to watch!

 

[POB14]

They say it's best not to wake a sleepwalker.

Just so we're clear, this is 100% malarkey:

One common misconception is that a sleep walker should not be awakened. It is not dangerous to awaken a sleep walker, although it is common for the person to be confused or disoriented for a short time on awakening.

My brother and I both used to sleepwalk quite a bit. During said sleepwalking bouts, each of us had an incident wherein we urinated in interesting places. Mine was the kitchen garbage can, located in a similar relative position as the bathroom in our old house. His was more dangerous, considering that it involved another guy's boots at Basic Training.