Went to sleep upstairs, woke up downstairs on my couch

[The 24th Letter]

WTF?

This is so creepy feeling. Last night I go to bed like usual in my bed. I wake up, and im downstairs laying on my couch.

The obvious answer is sleepwalking, but I've never done that my entire life. I would assume one wouldn't just start this in their late 20's, lol

Anyone sleep walk, or hear of it developing out of the blue?

[Kevin26385]

Re: Went to sleep upstairs, woke up downstairs on my couch

When I was younger, I used to take my comforter off my bed and fall asleep on the kitchen floor.

I also have been known to throw out my retainers and or pee in the garbage can once or twice.

[Caveman24]

Re: Went to sleep upstairs, woke up downstairs on my couch

paranormal activity?

[duke776]

Re: Went to sleep upstairs, woke up downstairs on my couch

I sleepwalk pretty regularly. When I lived at Ohio University in the dorms I sleepwalked and I slept on the top bunk I am unsure of how I didn't die getting down but I did it. My roommates thought it was hilarious, I usually would curse like a sailor in my sleep as well. They told me so many stories of my sleep "activities."

[Feared]

Re: Went to sleep upstairs, woke up downstairs on my couch

Were you drunk, physically impaired, or taking any medication before you went to bed last night?

Only possible explanation I have. Unless a Room-mate, Spouse, Girlfriend, Random Home intruder.. physically picked you up, carried you downstairs and placed you on the Couch while in your sleep.

[stlpimpmonsta]

Re: Went to sleep upstairs, woke up downstairs on my couch

Happens to me apparently. My brother and cousin always tell me about how i would walk around aimlessly talking incoherently. The **** i apparently say.........lol.

[BurghFan]

Re: Went to sleep upstairs, woke up downstairs on my couch

It's happened to me a few times. One time I woke up sitting on the toilet in the bathroom. There was also one time when I was younger and my mom had come to wake me up for school and noticed that my sisters pillow was on my floor. They both just assumed I'd sleepwalked downstairs to her room, stolen her pillow, brought it back up to my room, thrown it on the floor, and gone back to bed. Of course it could just as easily have been her sleepwalking and bringing it up to my room then going back down to her room without it.

Who was the guy with the benadryl story in OT?

[Feared]

Re: Went to sleep upstairs, woke up downstairs on my couch

You see I never understood the premise of sleep walking. I know it's an actual condition but never really researched the specifics.

What really keeps you from crashing into a wall, or tripping over a coffee table, chair while sleep walking? Seems like that should occur quite frequently. Are you like walking around with your eyes open, but your mind and body are still physically in a state of sleep, while your sense of vision is the only part that's in tact?

Just don't understand.

[BurghFan]

Re: Went to sleep upstairs, woke up downstairs on my couch

You see I never understood the premise of sleep walking. I know it's an actual condition but never really researched the specifics.

What really keeps you from crashing into a wall, or tripping over a coffee table, chair while sleep walking? Seems like that should occur quite frequently. Are you like walking around with your eyes open, but your mind and body are still physically in a state of sleep, while your sense of vision is the only part that's in tact?

Just don't understand.

I think basically what happens is that the evolutionarily more primitive parts of your brain (thalamus, limbic system) enter a waking state while the more advance cortex remains in a sleeping state. While the cortex is needed for self-awareness and other higher functions, the thalamus and limbic system are able to perform basic (instinct and impulse driven) motor and sensory functions allowed you to move about, carry out some tasks, and avoid getting hurt while sleepwalking.

[Gotmadskillzson]

Re: Went to sleep upstairs, woke up downstairs on my couch

You see I never understood the premise of sleep walking. I know it's an actual condition but never really researched the specifics.

What really keeps you from crashing into a wall, or tripping over a coffee table, chair while sleep walking? Seems like that should occur quite frequently. Are you like walking around with your eyes open, but your mind and body are still physically in a state of sleep, while your sense of vision is the only part that's in tact?

Just don't understand.

If you lived some where for a while, you can remember where everything is at without even opening your eyes. My wife does this all the time. If she has to pee, she will get up, walk around the bed, the dressers, down the hallways, around the bathroom furniture and sit on the toilet all in complete darkness.

We sleep with all the lights off, so it be completely dark in the house. She don't trip or walk into anything.

There have been tons of study on this. Doctors say the human brain itself has a photo graphic memory. It remembers everything that you see and where everything is, the distance and all that.

When you are wide awake, majority of people can't access that photo graphic memory. But it is stored in the brain on a subconscious level. That is why when people get hypnotized, they can recall events in detail that happened to them over 30 years ago. It is all stored in the brain.

[Feared]

Re: Went to sleep upstairs, woke up downstairs on my couch

So basically the brain is providing you with Photographic information of an area you've memorized while asleep, allowing you to walk.

Now the question is what happens when you attempt to leave your comfort zone of what you know, for instance patio door open try to walk outside? Is that the point where you suddenly wake up because you no longer have that information stored... I'm guessing that's the point where you trip and fall over something.

[SuperBowlNachos]

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My and my brother both slept walk. All I did was end up waking up somewhere else. My brother on the other hand would pee in random places and one time got all of the silverware and dumped it in his closet.

[Gotmadskillzson]

Re: Went to sleep upstairs, woke up downstairs on my couch

So basically the brain is providing you with Photographic information of an area you've memorized while asleep, allowing you to walk.

Now the question is what happens when you attempt to leave your comfort zone of what you know, for instance patio door open try to walk outside? Is that the point where you suddenly wake up because you no longer have that information stored... I'm guessing that's the point where you trip and fall over something.

Well considering you walked outside your house before, that info would be stored, unless something fell on the ground some where in your path. Humans are much like animals, we generally take the same path to things everyday. That path is stored and becomes instinct.

I walk down the same stretch of drive way every time I go out to the mail box. Never go to the left or to the right of it, just a straight line down the same path. By nature, we are just creatures of habit.

[RockinDaMike]

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I slept walked when I was a kid and my parents told me that I once I went up to them with a knife and they were so freaked out. They thought I was possessed and they kept asking me questions when I woke up. They even got a priest later that week to see me.

I would do weird stuff like take all the towels and started folding them putting them in the bathtub or get a pot and look like I was cooking.

[The 24th Letter]

Yeah, that's what I don't get, and what scares me...getting down the stairs...it's crazy that you can do that while sleeping....I just envision jacking up my bad knee even worse...on that note, I wonder of pain snaps you out of it...

It's just all very, very weird