Gibberish, urine, and utter chaos: What happens when you sleepwalk - Emmanuel During

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Mumbling fantastical gibberish; devouring blocks of cheese in the nude; peeing in places that aren’t toilets; and jumping out of windows. These are all things people have reportedly done while sleepwalking, a behavior that can be dangerous in some cases. It’s estimated that around 18% of people sleepwalk at least once in their lives. So, what exactly is sleepwalking? Emmanuel During investigates.

Lesson by Emmanuel During, directed by Laura Jayne Hodkin.

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[HellOnWheel]

As a kid, I apparently would sleepwalk downstairs and turn on the TV just watching static like in poltergeist. Freaked my parents out.

[astral_alicia]

When I was a kid, if I was the one to lock the front door before bed, then I'd sleep walk to it, unlock it, and walk out of it. I did this once at a hotel on a family vacation, and I woke up standing infront of the hotels pool. That was probably the most dangerous situation I've ever put myself in while sleep walking.

[NaazyD]

I've suffered both sleepwalking & night terrors my whole life. It went away for a while during my 20's, but resumed in my 30's. Just the other day I woke my family & neighbors up at 2am screaming at the top of lungs out of my bedroom window that there is a thief in our yard. I also have a tendency to rearrange furniture while sleepwalking.

[terrafirma]

My ex-girlfriend had pretty consistent sleep walking if she did not take her sleeping pills. She got up, went to the living room, and curled up like a cat on the table next to her cat. The cat was very confused, he usually hung out on the table to look out the front window. I carried her back to the bed, but it took a lot to convince her of what she did.

[ilikethefedorahat]

The art in this one is on another level. It's incredible that we can watch such a quality video without tossing a dollar

[OmnipresentPotato]

3:17, the background music here is beautiful and genius. It's a very discordant, disharmonious chord when talking about sleep terrors, and then resolves to a more harmonic chord when talking about the resolution of sleep terrors. Brilliant!

[veroniquedelafere]

i've sleepwalked multiple times in my life, especially as a kid. my parents told me that one night a couple hours after going to bed i came out of my room and was very determined to go to the bathroom on the other floor: i said that there was a huge party there that had started without me!

[kallygambell]

Sleepwalking was huge for me and my older brother, it was trauma related. Mine has stopped now I’m in a happy stable relationship and my brothers, who was always worse than me, has calmed down a lot. One time when we were kids we’d been kidnapped and the trauma really amped up my brothers sleepwalking, when we were home I remember him waking me up shouting that we had to get out because they were coming for us and we’re walking down the street. He pushed me to my bedroom door then quickly spun me around and pushed me to the window saying it was too late they were coming up the stairs, I’m so glad my window was locked because he was actively trying to open it to push me out and jump out after me.

[spycrab]

A few months ago, my family was in a hotel. One night, my cousin started sleepwalking and he started walking around his room while everyone just looked at him weird 😂

[ShadowYaz]

Sleep talking is apparently more common among people wit sleep issues, on that note…. My partner and I apparently had a full conversation in our sleep which neither of us remember.

They apparently spouted random facts and I muttered back with my teeth clenched, they’d ask if I was ok and I’d say “mhm” then they’d give another random fact and I’d respond again with my teeth clenched and they’d ask if i was ok and repeat until we woke up.

[poland-lithuania]

This has 42 views in 32 seconds. That shows how good Ted Ed is.

[AJSan]

I once sleepwalked out of our house and reached as far as 3 streets away. I was only stopped when our neighbor asked me where I was going then later realized that I was sleepwalking. Didn't remember anything how I got there tho...

[alexanderdeclercq]

As a kid I would sleepwalk a lot. Most of the times, I would just walk around the house and turn the lights on everywhere, including other people’s rooms (while they were sleeping). Sometimes, I would go back to sleep on the sofa or in someone else’s bed. Waking up somewhere different than where you went to sleep is a weird feeling. One time though, I fell out of bed (I slept in a bunk bed, on top) and instantly woke up. That was so confusing, I couldn’t process how that happened.

[thanhtrungnguyenhuu]

Once, i go to school after no sleeps. I feel so sleepy, i got hallucinations while walking, and got confuse between dream and reality.

[journey]

I literally slept walk to the shower and went back to bed. And I remember everything I saw

[therealeikichionizuka]

Sleepwalking creeps me out. I once went to bed, then woke up in my parents bed between my mom and dad.

[elenafriderich]

My sister says the craziest stuff in her sleep. My family keeps a list of her funniest sayings.

[oliviadavis]

Never sleep-walked but there was this one time when I was little, we were visiting my grandparents at their house. My grandma would sleep with me at night usually, but one night she had woken up for some reason, so she heard me say something in my sleep. It was this:
"Hey, that's Millie Johnson's!"
That night, I had had a short dream where I was in school, in the middle of the day and in the hallways getting something out of my locker. The hallways are empty except for me until one boy runs up to a locker and takes something out of it. The locker was Millie Johnson's, and he stole something of hers. In the dream, as he is running away, I exclaim, "Hey, that's Millie Johnson's!" I do remember saying that and, while I was not aware that I was in a dream and not real life, (as in most dreams) saying that still felt more 'real' than whatever else we say in dreams, because I actually said it out loud. That morning I asked my grandma if I said anything in my sleep, and she said, "yeah, you said something about Millie Johnson?"
The cool part was that Millie Johnson was a real person. She actually went to my school, was in my grade, and was on my soccer team, so even though we weren't exactly friends we did interact with each other and were acquaintances. I never told her about the dream, though. (I changed the name for her privacy, so Millie Johnson isn't her real name)

[apfel_taartje]

I once woke on my bare feet in the middle of a forest, about 2 kilometers away from my campervan

I must have gotten up, opened the door and marched all the way over sharp rocks and branches in the cold, alongside a loud festival concert and never woke up

[lilyoaks]

I was a sleepwalker well into my thirties. During childhood, my siblings used to make fun of my pushing the wall as I sleepwalked. That was funny until I became a mother. One night I woke up to my 1-year-old cry. I'd laid her on the bed which didn't actually exist. In fact, I'd thrown her to the floor!
That night was horrible! I feared I might hurt her badly.

Some time later, that disappeared. I don't know how or why, but I'm thankful it did.