Thread: Sleepwalked andd sleepsmoked last night? How do I know?

Hey, last night I had a wierd dream. Nothing unusual about that. And it's often boring listening to people's dream-descriptions (or in this case: reading them). So I'll keep it very brief. I dreamt I opened a jar of popcorn and emptied it on the floor. Then I stepped on a bag of oil pellets (fishing bait).

I live on my own. When I woke up this morning and went to the living room (lounge) I found that someone had got my dirty old fishing sleeping bag out of the spare room (which of course has a spare bed with clean duvet) and had slept on the sofa. My fishing tackle bait-bag had been taken out and emptied on the floor. My jar of white pop-up boilies had been emptied onto the floor (popcorn in the dream)and the lid had been used as an ashtray (right next to an unused proper ashtray) but the fagash is all over the floor. My own cigarrettes and lighter there. My bag of oil pellets have been trod on and ruined.


Now, my wonderful old Dad died last week and I've been away for the weekend after meeting up with sisters. I got home last night. This morning I thought - has some **** been here? My neighbour has my spare keys and her son has been sleeping on her sofa (post-divorce). I thought - has he been out on the razzle and, knowing I was away, used them and stayed saturday night? It's not possible for someone to have been here and left last night because the internal lock is on. But I'm sure I would have noticed last night these things when I got home.


I think it must have been me! I hope so - hate the thought of someone using my place.


It looks like I've sleepwalked and sleepsmoked. It's a bit worrying. I used to sleepwalk when I was a kid.

Wow, that is way more surreal than my making tea with a cup of coffee the other morning and not realizing until I got half way through the cup and decided I was drinking coffee instead of tea, that I'd really gone completely out in space.

Deepest condolences regarding your father. Losing a parent is terrible, especially when you're close.

Tell you what, employ a trip wire at your bedroom door frame. If you're sleep walking around, you'll find out... or have an incident in the morning, either or... jk jk

Oh, spider, I didn't even see this until now. Please accept my condolences on the loss of your father.

What a story..very intriguing I must say.
Sorry to hear about your dad.
Ever thought of setting a up a camera in places to check that it was you?
At least you can confirm it was you then may be move on to do something about it.

Thanks both.

It looks like it was just a one-off. I googled sleepwalking to find I ticked all the boxes. Insomnia - two days previously I'd gone 38 hrs without sleep (not really insomnia, just situations) travelling to Scotland etc. Also, anxiety for obvious reasons.


My neighbour's son was up at 3am and said he heard me 'clattering about' and thought it unusual because normally I'm very quiet. Normally with sleepwalking you do one of two things - you move to a different place to sleep (which is what I did) or you rearrange furniture.

Strangely enough, 3 weeks previously, a man got off with a rape charge because he had been sleepwalking.

A while back, another man got done for rape because his victim sleepwalked into his bed and seemed to willingly have sex with him. Apparantly he got 8 years, was on suicide watch.

I've read that people can even drive cars while sleepwalking. Jeez!

When my sister was ten, she went for a midnight walk outside in just her nightgown (no shoes) in the middle of winter. My dad broke his toe on the coffee table, kicking at a dream robber. Moving to a new place, walking, smoking, it sure can happen. I read somewhere about a woman who put on fifty pounds because of sleep eating.

Holy cow, I used to think it was amazing that I could hold a conversation in my sleep (my mom tried to come in and pester me with things to do for the day, I gave her whatever answers she wanted, eyes open but still dead asleep...didn't remember a thing) but this has that beat by a mile.

I'm sorry to hear about your dad passing, that's a lot of stress right there.

I've heard of all this, but .... If what Spider said is true "Normally with sleepwalking you do one of two things - you move to a different place to sleep or you rearrange furniture." why would you rearrange furniture? I mean, if you normally do one of those two things, why move the furniture around?

Originally Posted by Argentum

I've heard of all this, but .... If what Spider said is true "Normally with sleepwalking you do one of two things - you move to a different place to sleep or you rearrange furniture." why would you rearrange furniture? I mean, if you normally do one of those two things, why move the furniture around?

I read Robbie Fowler's autobiography (footballer) and he said Liverpool player Steve Nicol was known to sleepwalk and they had funnily arranged for some newbie to share a room with him on some european jaunt. The newbie woke up one night with Nicol trying to turn his bed over while the newbie was in it. Nicol was obviously just trying to move the bed to another place.

I don't think anyone knows why they want to move the furniture about.