I recently heard a story from a friend that really cracked me up. At the same time it fascinates the hell out of me. Her husband sleepwalks. Now, generally when we are thinking sleepwalking, we are assuming that someone is wandering about in a trance like state, possibly with one’s arms stretched out in front of them like a zombie. NOT SO MUCH!
So, here is what her husband did. He got up sometime during the night, went to her bathroom, showered, brushed his teeth with her toothbrush, for some strange reason created a trail with her underwear from the bathtub to the sink and then “attacked” her tampons. Yes, he took out the entire box of tampons from her medicine cabinet, apparently crushed the box and threw them in the trashcan. There were still tampons in the sink, on the floor and next to the trashcan. WOW!
But wait, there is more. On another night he “talked” to her the entire night. Apparently he had hugged her tightly and when she touched his leg he said in a clear voice “You need to get permission for that.” She answered “huh? From whom?” Answer from him “From the frame guy.” She said “Who is the frame guy?” To which he pointed with his finger to the right and said “He sits over there.” I honestly think this is the coolest thing EVER! I am aware that there are three stages of “being,” namely Beta, Theta and Alpha. But this is something different altogether, since he has absolutely no recollection of any of this the next morning. He has entire conversations, he showers!! and still doesn’t wake up? How can the water not wake you up?
Of course, I also wonder what the hidden hatred for tampons is. I mean, geez! He literally obliterated her entire box of tampons, crushed the box up and threw them away. What does it mean???? Ah, good times for me. As always, human behavior fascinates the hell out of me!
Tags: sleepwalking
The tampons must represent some form of competition in his subconscious
You know, if it wasn’t for my best friend I’d have difficulties believing that story. But she suffers from pretty bad sleepwalking too… I’ve even witnessed a few of the incidents–though by far not any of the worst ones (those she’s only told me about, and I’ve seen the evidence of a few of them). Once I was having a conversation with her (she was a little out of it but I thought she was just tired) and she went and ate some jello… only to have her come to a few minutes later. not remembering the conversation or any of the things she’d done since I got there, and with the last bit of the jello in front of her wondering why she’d been eating it since she can’t stand jello.
I am telling you, I am not making this stuff up! Haha
I’ve got a good one for you- my first husband had sex in his sleep. I would wake up in the middle of the night to find my underwear removed and him on top of me- but he never finished! he’d just roll over and go back to sleep and then I was wide awake laying there thinking wtf? He never remembered it the next day.
Also- if anyone above is taking a sleep med such as Ambien, there have been reports of sleep-walking, sleep-eating, sleep-sex and even sleep-driving! (scary!) -my ex was not on any meds, he was just weird!
You know, I HAVE taken Ambien before and experienced the weirdness first hand. I had a 2-hour phone conversation and no recollection of it the next day. As a matter of fact ,I sat there wondering how I could be missing 2 hours of “conscious” and coherent conversation.
And yes, I once dated a guy who would do that. It was the same scenario and kind of creepy.