Sleepwalking

[sleeping giant]

My son has always wandered down the stairs during the night while still asleep. We usually just turn him around and lead him back upstairs.

Last night however , the wife and i had just gone to bed when we heard the patter of tiny feet going down the stairs.
We were discussing who's turn it was to go down after him when we heard the back door opening. We both shot down the stairs to find him standing in the back garden in his jammy bottoms.

He was still asleep and as we lead him back to the house he walked into the bathroom and washed his hands , still sleeping.

He cannot remember anything about it this morning and thinks its really funny.

I keeked my breeks TBH and its still worrying me now.

Is it something people grow out of or do you think we should seek advice from a doctor ?

It has happened for years but it would noramlly go as far as finding him in the hall or standing at the bottom of our bed (scary)

[Jay]

My son has always wandered down the stairs during the night while still asleep. We usually just turn him around and lead him back upstairs.

Last night however , the wife and i had just gone to bed when we heard the patter of tiny feet going down the stairs.
We were discussing who's turn it was to go down after him when we heard the back door opening. We both shot down the stairs to find him standing in the back garden in his jammy bottoms.

He was still asleep and as we lead him back to the house he walked into the bathroom and washed his hands , still sleeping.

He cannot remember anything about it this morning and thinks its really funny.

I keeked my breeks TBH and its still worrying me now.

Is it something people grow out of or do you think we should seek advice from a doctor ?

It has happened for years but it would noramlly go as far as finding him in the hall or standing at the bottom of our bed (scary)

It would be worth a chat with your doctor SG but they usually grow out of it. My brother used to sleepwalk a lot and my mum was worried sick. My Scott does it but only if he needs the toilet, if I find him wandering about the house I point him towards the bog and he makes his own way back to bed.

[sleeping giant]

It would be worth a chat with your doctor SG but they usually grow out of it. My brother used to sleepwalk a lot and my mum was worried sick. My Scott does it but only if he needs the toilet, if I find him wandering about the house I point him towards the bog and he makes his own way back to bed.

Kinda thinking that myself Jill. Dont want medication thrown at him as an answer though.

I was thinking door chains at the top of the Back and Front door but i dont like the idea of them not being able to get out in an emergency.

[CropleyWasGod]

My oldest once got out of bed, still asleep. He wandered over to his chest of drawers, opened up the bottom drawer...... and peed in it.

Good lad, though, he closed it again after he'd finished.....

[Chez]

Kinda thinking that myself Jill. Dont want medication thrown at him as an answer though.

I was thinking door chains at the top of the Back and Front door but i dont like the idea of them not being able to get out in an emergency.

A wise idea for safety reasons :thumbsup:, did that myself when my two were very young to prevent them going into rooms that were risky ie the kitchen. As in the case of emergency, everyone would be getting out so an adult would be able to open them :agree:

[steakbake]

Kinda thinking that myself Jill. Dont want medication thrown at him as an answer though.

I was thinking door chains at the top of the Back and Front door but i dont like the idea of them not being able to get out in an emergency.

I think folks tend to grow out of it though it does have certain triggers and it can affect anyone of any age.

I would imagine your GP would be able to keep you right and there are a couple of places in Edinburgh which take referrals for NHS treatment - one at ERI (which is where I went) and another semi-private sort of research place which is in town called the sleep clinic.

Used to have really bad insomnia myself but you can rest assured (hoho) that there are things that can be done which don't involve mind-bending drugs (unfortunately!) :wink:

[Riz]

Dont think medication is the answer at all mate, really wouldnt go that way. I used to sleepwalk alot when I was younger ... what is he eating before he went to sleep? How tired has he been during the day etc? My mum found me in the garden shed when I was 7, I also wandered away up the road and my neighbour got me half way up the street fast asleep.

Hope all gets sorted with the wee one.

[sleeping giant]

Dont think medication is the answer at all mate, really wouldnt go that way. I used to sleepwalk alot when I was younger ... what is he eating before he went to sleep? How tired has he been during the day etc? My mum found me in the garden shed when I was 7, I also wandered away up the road and my neighbour got me half way up the street fast asleep.

Hope all gets sorted with the wee one.

This is what worries me. It is horrible to think where he could have ended up if we had been sleeping.

He gets a bowl of fruit for supper every night and has done all his life so i cant see it being his diet.

He has always came through to our bed ever since he he could get out of his own.

The wife bought chains today so that will make me feel a little better.
I was never really worried about it before as we would find him in ours or his sisters bed or even the hall floor sometimes.

My bedroom windows was open last night and i could hear the ease with which he opened the locked door.

The brain is a strange thing indeed.


I would also like to say sorry for calling you an idiot on a thread last week.
You are obviously not an idiot but i was fuming with one of your posts :greengrin

[Riz]

This is what worries me. It is horrible to think where he could have ended up if we had been sleeping.

He gets a bowl of fruit for supper every night and has done all his life so i cant see it being his diet.

He has always came through to our bed ever since he he could get out of his own.

The wife bought chains today so that will make me feel a little better.
I was never really worried about it before as we would find him in ours or his sisters bed or even the hall floor sometimes.

My bedroom windows was open last night and i could hear the ease with which he opened the locked door.

The brain is a strange thing indeed.


I would also like to say sorry for calling you an idiot on a thread last week.
You are obviously not an idiot but i was fuming with one of your posts :greengrin

If its any conselation, in my experience, as much as the sleepwalker cant remember anything the next day, they are however aware of what they are doing when they are doing it, even tho it makes no sense. (For example at 8 year old I was found scrubbing the wall in the hall with my tootbrush ....why? Well I told my mum I was "cleaning a giraffes neck" ???? Weird huh? But yeh altho the sleepwalker looks and acts fast asleep, the brain is obviously still on and will often make more correct descisions that wrong ones. Id suggest locking the front doors tho and putting the key near by in a place where you and the wife know ... altho in the event of a fire (God forbid) that could be bad idea.

As for the "idiot" comment, its cool mate, Ive been called worse and no doubt will again on this forum ... sometimes I can be anyway lol, Im only human. :wink:

[Jay]

Put a stair gate up at night - you can get ones that dont need fixed to the wall and are easy to put up and down. It would let you all sleep better at night until he grows out of it and wont stop you all getting out in an emergency. This is assuming you have stairs!

[sleeping giant]

Put a stair gate up at night - you can get ones that dont need fixed to the wall and are easy to put up and down. It would let you all sleep better at night until he grows out of it and wont stop you all getting out in an emergency. This is assuming you have stairs!

I have stairs :greengrin

He is 8 though. I'm thinking if he can open the locked back door , he could open a stair gate.

[Jay]

I have stairs :greengrin

He is 8 though. I'm thinking if he can open the locked back door , he could open a stair gate.

You can get ones that dont open as such, its more like a wee wall but if he can open a locked back door its a lot of money to spend for what could be nothing.

How about a trip wire with alarms and buzzers (and even maybe zappers)- that would stop the wee begger in his tracks :greengrin

[Hibbychick]

This is what worries me. It is horrible to think where he could have ended up if we had been sleeping.

He gets a bowl of fruit for supper every night and has done all his life so i cant see it being his diet.

He has always came through to our bed ever since he he could get out of his own.

The wife bought chains today so that will make me feel a little better.
I was never really worried about it before as we would find him in ours or his sisters bed or even the hall floor sometimes.

My bedroom windows was open last night and i could hear the ease with which he opened the locked door.

The brain is a strange thing indeed.


I would also like to say sorry for calling you an idiot on a thread last week.
You are obviously not an idiot but i was fuming with one of your posts :greengrin

SG,
I think the key is to get him as relaxed as poss before going to bed.
Hot milky drinks, lavender smellls and avoid playing games consoles / watching movies before bed may help.
It might be an idea to give him the fruit during the day and not before bed as the natural sugars may be stimulating his brain.

[ArabHibee]

My brother used to do this when he was younger. Mum and Dad found him once at the front door trying to unlock the door. They got the shock of their lives too!! They hid the key where only they knew it was and this didn't cause any problems - it was only hidden about 4 foot from the front door but because my brother didn't know where it was, he would still try the door but as he couldn't get out, would end up going back to his bed.

He did grow out of it but he has been known to still do it on occasion when he has had too much drinky-poos!! Even found him sleeping on my bedroom floor!

[joe_hfc]

My brother used to do this when he was younger. Mum and Dad found him once at the front door trying to unlock the door. They got the shock of their lives too!! They hid the key where only they knew it was and this didn't cause any problems - it was only hidden about 4 foot from the front door but because my brother didn't know where it was, he would still try the door but as he couldn't get out, would end up going back to his bed.

He did grow out of it but he has been known to still do it on occasion when he has had too much drinky-poos!! Even found him sleeping on my bedroom floor!

I was about to ask, does drinking a lot increase the liklihood of sleep walking? the other week i slept walked for the first time in my life (i think) and i would have been plastered. It was the most embaressing thing of my life so won't g into detail lol. Have been put of drinking since though... :drunk:

[fordie2]

My brother used to do this when he was younger. Mum and Dad found him once at the front door trying to unlock the door. They got the shock of their lives too!! They hid the key where only they knew it was and this didn't cause any problems - it was only hidden about 4 foot from the front door but because my brother didn't know where it was, he would still try the door but as he couldn't get out, would end up going back to his bed.

He did grow out of it but he has been known to still do it on occasion when he has had too much drinky-poos!! Even found him sleeping on my bedroom floor!

I still sleepwalk at 24, usually after a couple of drinks now but sometimes stonecold sober? Once I set up a step ladder in my parents bedroom and climbed up to the top then ... woke up with a thud and a 2 inch gash in my back from the corner of a chest of drawers!!

Hopefully he will grow out of it though as most people do!

[sleeping giant]

I still sleepwalk at 24, usually after a couple of drinks now but sometimes stonecold sober? Once I set up a step ladder in my parents bedroom and climbed up to the top then ... woke up with a thud and a 2 inch gash in my back from the corner of a chest of drawers!!

Hopefully he will grow out of it though as most people do!

Sorry mate but that is funny :greengrin

What did your parents say ?

[fordie2]

Sorry mate but that is funny :greengrin

What did your parents say ?

Yeh it wasn't funny at the time though:grr:

I was completely confused as to where I was and what had happened!

Funny now though:agree:

As for the parents they just laughed, my mum had to clean the cut and cover it up while I was fighting her off saying theres nothing wrong! Boy, was it sore in the morning though:brickwall

[Steve-O]

This is what worries me. It is horrible to think where he could have ended up if we had been sleeping.

He gets a bowl of fruit for supper every night and has done all his life so i cant see it being his diet.

He has always came through to our bed ever since he he could get out of his own.

The wife bought chains today so that will make me feel a little better.
I was never really worried about it before as we would find him in ours or his sisters bed or even the hall floor sometimes.

My bedroom windows was open last night and i could hear the ease with which he opened the locked door.

The brain is a strange thing indeed.


I would also like to say sorry for calling you an idiot on a thread last week.
You are obviously not an idiot but i was fuming with one of your posts :greengrin

You said he has been sleepwalking for ages so why not the diet? Can only try!

I have only sleptwalked a couple of times as far as I am aware - once when I was younger and I went downstairs and insisted my dad change the TV channel, the other when I was rather intoxicated when staying in a hotel (wandering round the hotel - when I woke up I wasn't even in my room and I was standing up!). Pretty scary to think about what could happen though.

I remember hearing of a case where a guy fell off a hotel balcony and died through sleepwalking, and another where someone sleepwalking had raped a woman! :dizzy:

[Riz]

It is true that there was a woman in America (there was a documentory on her) she went to the gym every day and pushed herself really hard to lose weight but it just wasent happening! She had no idea why!! She set up cameras about the house when she went to bed at night ... it turned out she had been sleepwalking , going to her kitchen and stuffing her face every night! Lol hilarious!!! :thumbsup:

[sleeping giant]

You said he has been sleepwalking for ages so why not the diet? Can only try!

I have only sleptwalked a couple of times as far as I am aware - once when I was younger and I went downstairs and insisted my dad change the TV channel, the other when I was rather intoxicated when staying in a hotel (wandering round the hotel - when I woke up I wasn't even in my room and I was standing up!). Pretty scary to think about what could happen though.

I remember hearing of a case where a guy fell off a hotel balcony and died through sleepwalking, and another where someone sleepwalking had raped a woman! :dizzy:

Aken :agree:
I suppose i always thought i was doing the right thing with fruit for supper.
They both like their supper before going to bed. Might try something else though.......like a kebab :greengrin

[Austinho]

I posted this on a thread on the Bounce called 'Undignified moments' once apon a time, but no better time than this to re-post it! :thumbsup:

My mate, who up until recently had managed to keep this a secret, drank a bit much the other night and foolishly told a room full of people his story.

One night coming home from a few drinks with his girlfriend, they went to bed in his old room in his parents house. He was pretty drunk, but everything seemed perfectly normal from when he fell asleep in bed with his girlfriend, right up until getting up in the morning for breakfast.

While sitting around the breakfast table, with girlfriend and parents, there seemed to be a bit of awkwardness at the table, but my mate thought nothing of it.

Finally his dad broke the silence, and stern faced said 'you must have been pretty drunk last night then?'. My mate shook his head and said he hadn't been too bad, before his dad asked 'so you remember what you did then?' Mate didn't have a clue what he was on about.

Turned out he had got up in the middle of the night (sleepwalking), climbed over his girlfriend and walked through the house into his parents room. He then stood at the edge of the bed while they were sleeping, pulled down his boxers and proceeded to pish all over the the duvet. Once finished, he then climbed into the bed with them and asked them to budge over. :hilarious

They must have had to put him to bed, and sleep on the floor, as all the bed covers and mattress were ruined. :hahaha::embarrass

[AllyF]

I posted this on a thread on the Bounce called 'Undignified moments' once apon a time, but no better time than this to re-post it! :thumbsup:

My mate, who up until recently had managed to keep this a secret, drank a bit much the other night and foolishly told a room full of people his story.

One night coming home from a few drinks with his girlfriend, they went to bed in his old room in his parents house. He was pretty drunk, but everything seemed perfectly normal from when he fell asleep in bed with his girlfriend, right up until getting up in the morning for breakfast.

While sitting around the breakfast table, with girlfriend and parents, there seemed to be a bit of awkwardness at the table, but my mate thought nothing of it.

Finally his dad broke the silence, and stern faced said 'you must have been pretty drunk last night then?'. My mate shook his head and said he hadn't been too bad, before his dad asked 'so you remember what you did then?' Mate didn't have a clue what he was on about.

Turned out he had got up in the middle of the night (sleepwalking), climbed over his girlfriend and walked through the house into his parents room. He then stood at the edge of the bed while they were sleeping, pulled down his boxers and proceeded to pish all over the the duvet. Once finished, he then climbed into the bed with them and asked them to budge over. :hilarious

They must have had to put him to bed, and sleep on the floor, as all the bed covers and mattress were ruined. :hahaha::embarrass

Haha :thumbsup:

My only experience was last August when I was in hospital for the second night after having my appendix out. I got out of my bed and the nurse came running through asking what was wrong and I told her I had an "appointment" and had to get to it. She kept saying I didn't have an appointment and that I was to go back to bed but I kept persisting. She ended up having to undo my drip and I proceeded to walk into the toilet, take a piss and then get back into bed and fall asleep. She started laughing at me in the morning and then told me what had happened and I had no recollection until I remembered the dream I had the night before where I had to get to an appointment with the doctor.

[David@EasterRoad]

I used to sleep walk a lot when I was younger but my mum just sat outside my room, read a book and everytime I got up she just put me back to bed. I was a lot younger than 8 though so probably more practical to do this as I went to bed early. After 10 days or so I stopped doing it for years, until I discovered alcohol:embarrass