What is the strangest thing your child has ever done or said while sleepwalking?
I'm still laughing about last night. My 5 year old used to have night terrors, now she occassionally sleepwalks. Last night she came out, mumbled something and did her 'grounding' (tapping her thumb and middle finger together), and I told her to go back to bed. Usually she sleepwalks back to bed and everything's fine. Last night, she went to her room but I heard her start crying. I ran back there and said 'Madi! Are you okay?'... she came out of the CLOSET, LOL!! I was like 'baby, why are you in the closet?!' and she mumbled and did her grounding... I guided her back to bed and the rest of the night was fine, but I'm still laughing that she went into the closet instead of back to bed ;)
So what's the strangest thing your little sleepwalker has done?
Not WHILE he was sleepwalking, but the next morning, my son asked us (with all sincerity) who had picked him up and moved him to his sister's floor while he was asleep.
LOL
My daughter came downstairs, walked into the hallway, began to pull her pants down and sit on the 'potty'... My husband walked her into the bathroom and sat her down on the actual potty. He of course made sure she got into back into bed ok.
Another time, she came downstairs, opened the fridge and just stood in front of it. She mumbled when I asked her what she was doing or wanting so I walked her back to bed.
ANOTHER time... She came downstairs with her top sheet in tow. THAT scared the daylights out of me. I can't believe she didn't trip over it and fall down the stairs, but with top sheet in tow, she sat down at the dinner table. Mumbled, got up, mumbled, and went back to bed. I carried the sheet and got her back in bed, bed remade with her in it and she never woke up!
Just a bit of info though... I've been dealing with these things for a long time. My ex (her dad) has nightterrors and did sleepwalk as a kid. Our daughter sleepwalks. And I have hypersomnia. I spoke with my sleep specialist to see if my hunch was appropriate as for a possible reason for the nightterrors and sleepwalking. He said it's the most likely reason... Being overtired. I noticed the pattern with my ex pretty quickly and our daughter shortly thereafter. If they were overtired when they went to bed, they either had a nightterror or had a sleepwalking episode. Both can be potentially dangerous.
A few months ago I found my 3 year-old son wondering the hall outside his room holding a huge tub of Aquaphor and mumbling to himself. He was totally asleep, but apparently concerned about dry skin.
Usually he just does laps around his room or around the coffee table in the living room when he sleepwalks, but once I found him standing on the Wii balance board in front of the TV. Just standing there. Still makes me laugh to picture it. :)
My older son used to sleepwalk and talk all the time. Thankfully he has outgrown it. One night he woke up and was insisting that his brother go in "time out", lol! Another time he got up and got his clothes out and was about to go out the front door to school at about 3 am. The worst was when he was still pretty little and had walked into the dining room where we have a ledge that makes kind of a half wall in the dining room with the stairs to the basement on the other side. He was perched up there on all fours and I just about died because he could have easily fallen over the ledge and to the bottom of the stairs. After that incident, we put a motion sensor at the bottom of his door frame so if he walked out of the room at night, an alarm would go off.
