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Originally posted by Mayson
I don't know if this is close enough to sleep "walking" to be mentioned, but I'll add it anyway.
My wife occasionally takes a night shift in order to get a little extra cash. She'll come to bed at 5 in the morning or so and have whole conversations with me that I almost never remember.
It's not as funny as peeing on the garbage cans
Actually, I remember one real-ish episode. It was when our first born was still waking us up a million times a night for feedings and such. I remember "waking" up with my wife asking me what I was doing and mumbling something about the baby crying and needing to be changed. She told me, the baby has been dead for 10 years. Where did I get the diaper from, then?
I'm just kidding. The first part is real, but she just told me that the baby didn't cry and I must have been dreaming. Talk about stress and irregular sleep schedules; Yikes!
Originally posted by SystemResistor
Basically you are on one of two sides:
A) Your subconscious mind extrudes into you conscious mind - symptoms are visions or voices and ambient objects and sounds being translated into apparitions and voices.
B) Your conscious mind extrudes into your sub-conscious, with your waking self attempting to enact various behaviours and patterns from your regular experience.
To lucid dream at this stage is dangerous, as you open doorways into the subconscious that you might not be ready to explore, the mirror is a metaphor for your hidden self, that you might or might not be grappling to come to terms with.
Although, I do not actually discourage you to lucid-dream, I recommend that you control the dream, and not the dreamer.edit on 19-10-2012 by SystemResistor because: (no reason given)edit on 19-10-2012 by SystemResistor because: (no reason given)
Rapid eye movement sleep behaviour disorder (RBD) is a sleep disorder (more specifically a parasomnia) that involves abnormal behaviour during the sleep phase with rapid eye movement (REM sleep). It was first described in 1986.
The major and arguably only abnormal feature of RBD is loss of muscle atonia (paralysis) during otherwise intact REM sleep. This is the stage of sleep in which most vivid dreaming occurs. The loss of motor inhibition leads to a wide spectrum of behavioural release during sleep. This extends from simple limb twitches to more complex integrated movement, in which sufferers appear to be unconsciously acting out their dreams. These behaviours can be violent in nature and in some cases will result in injury to either the patient or their bed partner.
Originally posted by defcon5
You're not having sleep walking (Somnambulism) from the sound of it, instead it sounds more like REM Behavior Disorder...
Rapid eye movement sleep behaviour disorder (RBD) is a sleep disorder (more specifically a parasomnia) that involves abnormal behaviour during the sleep phase with rapid eye movement (REM sleep). It was first described in 1986.
The major and arguably only abnormal feature of RBD is loss of muscle atonia (paralysis) during otherwise intact REM sleep. This is the stage of sleep in which most vivid dreaming occurs. The loss of motor inhibition leads to a wide spectrum of behavioural release during sleep. This extends from simple limb twitches to more complex integrated movement, in which sufferers appear to be unconsciously acting out their dreams. These behaviours can be violent in nature and in some cases will result in injury to either the patient or their bed partner.
Sleep walking and REM Behavior disorder happen in different stages of sleep, and can be determined by a sleep study.