While you were sleeping

SCSIgirl · January 6th, 2006 07:38 AM

I'd like to start a new tread where, instead of voicing opinions, we can all tell tales. This is about watching our loved ones sleep.

My most memorable is something Becky did to me once. Beck was several girlfriends ago, but she is still one of my best friends. We still joke about this incident.

I was out cold. Sleeping deeply in lala land, when I was forceably awakened by Becky sitting on my chest. She had grabbed my shoulders and was shakeing them violently. Her eyes were wide open and she was yelling at me:

"I said the grey house!! The grey house!!!"

With that she rolled off me and lay motionless by my side, facing away from me. It took me about 30 seconds to collect my marbles and try and comprehend what had just happened. Since she was facing away from me, I could't tell if she was asleep, or smiling, or smirking, or what. I finally called to her gently: "Becky?" "Hey, Beck?" "Are you just screwing with my brain, Honey?" There was no response, not even a flinch.

It took me about an hour to get back to sleep, mostly because it took that long for the adrenaline to wear off. I knew how I'd question her in the morning.

The next morning, I queried her: "So, Beck, what's in the grey house?"
She gave me blank look. "What grey house?"
"You know, the grey house..."
"Our house is grey, is that what you are talking about?"
"No, no. The grey house fom last night."
She gave me another blank look.
I know Beck well enough to know that she was clueless. She was never good a pulling off pranks anyway. I told her of the incident. She denied any knowledge of the affair. She also pointed out that she was not prone to sleepwalking or other nighttime activities, which was true.

To this day she maintains her innocence and I believe her. She believes she might have done it or I might be making it up. Yet it is always a fun memory for both of us.

What have your lovers done whilst they slumber? Or what have you been accused of doing while in lala land?

jdudley76 · January 6th, 2006 07:58 AM

Nothing so entertaining. The most I've done is kick my girlfriend rather hard a few times because I dreamt I was fighting off ninjas. I did sleepwalk once when I was a kid and while standing in the bathroom, yelled out loud enough to wake up the entire house (this being while I was spending the night at a friend's.)

dmbhead · January 6th, 2006 08:32 AM

My ex Karen from high school and college woke me one night to inform me my fingers were still inserted down there. Of course I wanted to continue what I started before falling asleep, she wouldn't let me though. Luckily for me she thought it was 'cute.' Why she didn't just remove my hand I'll never know. Her roomie in the bunk below was always so clueless as to our activities above. I would also wake up with bruises on occasion the 6 years we were together, she claimed innocence.

catt · January 6th, 2006 09:15 AM

My ex was Welsh, but claimed to not be able to speak, nor understand, a single word of the ancient dialect (his parents only knew the bare minimum, themselves). Once, in the wee hours of the morn', he sat bolt upright in bed - fist in air - and started gibbering loudly in what I could only determine to be a flood of 'Welsh'. If you've ever heard Welsh (in particular, of the old Celt-sounding dialects), it's a very thick and 'wet'-sounding language.

He didn't believe me in the morning, but I was dually freaked-out and amused by the experience.

xxCattxx

dmbhead · January 6th, 2006 09:29 AM

catt wrote:

My ex was Welsh, but claimed to not be able to speak, nor understand, a single word of the ancient dialect (his parents only knew the bare minimum, themselves). Once, in the wee hours of the morn', he sat bolt upright in bed - fist in air - and started gibbering loudly in what I could only determine to be a flood of 'Welsh'. If you've ever heard Welsh (in particular, of the old Celt-sounding dialects), it's a very thick and 'wet'-sounding language.
He didn't believe me in the morning, but I was dually freaked-out and amused by the experience.
xxCattxx

I know what you mean catt, I've heard David Gray in a few interviews and lost something in translation.

overslacked · January 6th, 2006 08:56 PM

catt wrote:

My ex was Welsh, but claimed to not be able to speak, nor understand, a single word of the ancient dialect (his parents only knew the bare minimum, themselves). Once, in the wee hours of the morn', he sat bolt upright in bed - fist in air - and started gibbering loudly in what I could only determine to be a flood of 'Welsh'. If you've ever heard Welsh (in particular, of the old Celt-sounding dialects), it's a very thick and 'wet'-sounding language.
He didn't believe me in the morning, but I was dually freaked-out and amused by the experience.
xxCattxx

I don't want to divert the thread too far, but has anyone noticed that it's easier to speak a foreign language early in the morning? I had taken French in college, and a girlfriend had lived in Paris for 6 months. The only time I could speak French well was in the morning; I always said it felt like my thoughts were much easier to transpose when I'd only been awake a few minutes; like my brain wasn't using English yet, but something more abstract.

To contribute: I talk a lot in my sleep, and it appears to be a family trait. My parents say that when my sister and I were sleeping in the same room, we'd have conversations - it really creeped my parents out. Of course, none of it made any sense. Sleep-talking really drove my most recent ex nuts - she never got used to it and would try to make sense of what I was saying. When she'd wake me to ask, I'd have no idea. In the mornings, when she'd be getting ready for work, I would try to talk to her while she was putting on makeup (that's when she was in earshot, anyway, I was probably talking the whole time). Usually, she'd wake me up so I'd stop distracting her.

Oh, and I used to sleepwalk a lot as well. My mom loves the story of me at 7 or 8 marching around the house in my PJs, asleep, until I decided I was in the bathroom and shat myself.

THAT'S not a story I share very often.

SCSIgirl · January 7th, 2006 03:44 AM

overslacked wrote:

I don't want to divert the thread too far, but has anyone noticed that it's easier to speak a foreign language early in the morning? I had taken French in college, and a girlfriend had lived in Paris for 6 months. The only time I could speak French well was in the morning; I always said it felt like my thoughts were much easier to transpose when I'd only been awake a few minutes; like my brain wasn't using English yet, but something more abstract.
To contribute: I talk a lot in my sleep, and it appears to be a family trait. My parents say that when my sister and I were sleeping in the same room, we'd have conversations - it really creeped my parents out. Of course, none of it made any sense. Sleep-talking really drove my most recent ex nuts - she never got used to it and would try to make sense of what I was saying. When she'd wake me to ask, I'd have no idea. In the mornings, when she'd be getting ready for work, I would try to talk to her while she was putting on makeup (that's when she was in earshot, anyway, I was probably talking the whole time). Usually, she'd wake me up so I'd stop distracting her.
Oh, and I used to sleepwalk a lot as well. My mom loves the story of me at 7 or 8 marching around the house in my PJs, asleep, until I decided I was in the bathroom and shat myself.
THAT'S not a story I share very often.

One of my former GFs had a young son (@10) who would sleepwalk to what he thought was the bathroom and take a leak. It was always a dash to try and pinch it off at the pipe.

As for language.... heck no. I can't even speak my native language first thing in the morning. About all it can do is suck........ which explains why I wake up with body parts in my face each morning.

roxxie · January 9th, 2006 12:57 PM

LOL! I'm a notorious sleep talker myself. One of my college roommates told me that one night I told her to bury some bodies and then I talked her about having sex with Jesus. In an all girls dorm I was in one year, one woman had her boyfriend spend the night, and during the night he had to use the bathroom. I was told that I was in there at the sink and freaked out and screamed when he came in. No memory of that! but the boyfriend insisted that I was the one in the bathrom. Oh and the stories I've been told about things I did while I was drunk but I don't remember...

SCSIgirl · January 9th, 2006 01:09 PM

roxxie wrote:

LOL! I'm a notorious sleep talker myself. One of my college roommates told me that one night I told her to bury some bodies and then I talked her about having sex with Jesus. In an all girls dorm I was in one year, one woman had her boyfriend spend the night, and during the night he had to use the bathroom. I was told that I was in there at the sink and freaked out and screamed when he came in. No memory of that! but the boyfriend insisted that I was the one in the bathrom. Oh and the stories I've been told about things I did while I was drunk but I don't remember...

Oh, please. Oh, please.... tell me tell me. Rat out on Zille, too!! You must have some great Zille stories!!!!!

roxxie · January 13th, 2006 02:09 PM

SCSIgirl wrote:

Oh, please. Oh, please.... tell me tell me. Rat out on Zille, too!! You must have some great Zille stories!!!!!

I'm far more of a lush than Zille! Her parties usually involves lots of grrlies kissing. So far I've not seen any Zille naughtiness that you probably couldn't imagine yourself.

Back a few years ago I went to a party and wore a red dress. I've heard several unbelievable stories about things that I did at that party. I haven't been able to wear that red dress in public again because random people on the street remember the girl in the red dress from that party!

alisha_x · January 15th, 2006 03:03 AM

Hope you dont mind a stranger joining in but I have a few sleep stories...

One of my lovely ex's always had intense dreams, she once sat bolt upright asleep and stated loudly 'war is impossible' then punched my clock (which was cheap and shattered) then lay back down still asleep!
i thought war being impssible was a nice idea but was late for work due to having no alarm....

I aparently during a drunken sleep re-ordered a friends dvd collection of 50 dvds into genre but im not sure how if my eyes were closed.... :s

Alisha
Xxx

SCSIgirl · January 15th, 2006 04:54 AM

alisha_x wrote:

Hope you dont mind a stranger joining in but I have a few sleep stories...
One of my lovely ex's always had intense dreams, she once sat bolt upright asleep and stated loudly 'war is impossible' then punched my clock (which was cheap and shattered) then lay back down still asleep!
i thought war being impssible was a nice idea but was late for work due to having no alarm....
I aparently during a drunken sleep re-ordered a friends dvd collection of 50 dvds into genre but im not sure how if my eyes were closed.... :s
Alisha
Xxx

Just don't get on the 'net and start ordering........ You may wake to find the boys delivering your new LearJet.....

;-}

alisha_x · January 17th, 2006 08:32 AM

Luckily thats one of the only incidents of me doing anything but kick people out of bed in my sleep!

I aparently have an amazing ability to sleep horisontally across the middle with my feet sticking out when left alone for less than a minute :s luckily Im quite light and can be picked up and moved back! lol

Ive known some crazy sleep people, one girl could walk talk, eat, tidy and have sex, and her other half was never sure if she was really awake, hed ask her and she could say 'yes' then five minutes later demand to know what he was doing under the covers... quite confusing :s

Speaking of sleep, Im off to catch some Zzzzzz myself, night!

blissed · January 17th, 2006 09:56 AM

I saw on the news a girl who'd climbed up to the top of a crane in her sleep
I googled it and found it
http://www.theadvertiser.news.com.au/co … 02,00.html

I'd have someone tie me to the bed (platonically) if I sleepwalked. Otherwise you might wake up and find your standing on the roof or driving down the motorway : O
The fact that we can perform quite complicated tasks while unconscious, I find that fascinating. because I've got a pet theory that consciousness is a very small part of the mind, and I think this goes someway I think to support that.

liandra_dahl · January 17th, 2006 09:59 AM

My ex-husband had awful sleep trouble, he would shout and scream and flail around like he was being murdered, if you spoke to him he would only get worse...it was highly unpleasant. I watched a programme once where a woman had the similar but much worse problem, her husband, who was normally a quiet reserved kind of guy, would turn into a violent wife bashing maniac once he was asleep, so some experts studied him...but then I stopped watching and I never discovered if they cured him...they had just finished creating a padded cell in his house for him to sleep in.

I myself once got shaken awake once by a boyfriend for repeatedly saying a mans name and sounding like I was...happy...well he interogated me for weeks about this guy but I didn't know anyone by that name, neither could I remember what I was dreaming about.

My daughter sleep talks, sometimes she cries in her sleep, which I find very upsetting, but if I rub her back and sh in her ear she snuggles down again.

dmbhead · January 17th, 2006 01:10 PM

liandra_dahl wrote:

My ex-husband had awful sleep trouble, he would shout and scream and flail around like he was being murdered, if you spoke to him he would only get worse...it was highly unpleasant. I watched a programme once where a woman had the similar but much worse problem, her husband, who was normally a quiet reserved kind of guy, would turn into a violent wife bashing maniac once he was asleep, so some experts studied him...but then I stopped watching and I never discovered if they cured him...they had just finished creating a padded cell in his house for him to sleep in.

Maybe a shock collar would have been a good way to treat him. When he got out of line during the night, BUZZZZZZZZZ his ass!

ilana · January 17th, 2006 02:49 PM

Ever since I've been living with my boyfriend, I do this weird thing I call 'lucid dreaming'. We'll be lying in bed having a conversation and I'll start drifting in and out of sleep; I can finish saying something to him that's related to our conversation, and then, two seconds later I'll start rambling about things that are completley unrelated - like asking him if my brothers can go snorkelling with us on the weekend, or that the fridge is on fire. Sometimes I wake myself up and get annoyed that I'm doing it, other times my boyfriend has a conversation with until I wake up enough to pick up where we left off in the conversation we were originally having.

It happens often, about once a fortnight or so. I've asked him to record me doing it because I think it'd be interesting to hear myself talking normally one second, and then going off on a crazy rant the next. It's strange that it's only ever happened with him though, I've never done it with anyone else or they've never said anything.

voyeur2 · January 17th, 2006 09:21 PM

blissed wrote:

The fact that we can perform quite complicated tasks while unconscious, I find that fascinating. because I've got a pet theory that consciousness is a very small part of the mind, and I think this goes someway I think to support that.

Here you hit the nail on the head Blissed. There are some people who spend their entire life unconscious. They often find jobs working in government burocracies.

Belgareth · January 18th, 2006 06:27 AM

voyeur2 wrote:

Here you hit the nail on the head Blissed. There are some people who spend their entire life unconscious. They often find jobs working in government burocracies.

Do I detect a small degree of cynicism in your comment V2? ;-)

Picking up on Blissed's (hell, how do you pronounce that!) comment about the consciousness being a small part of the mind, I do believe that there is some feasibility in the philosophical concept that what we consider to be our awake and conscious state is, in fact, our sleep state and vice versa.

fi · January 18th, 2006 10:01 AM

I have no doubts that while we're sleeping part of us is still awake. Once I asked a very asleep someone to marry me. There was nothing asleep about them 0.1 milliseconds later. In fact, I've never seen someone make it so fast from zed-land to the crash position.

alisha_x · January 19th, 2006 09:01 AM

Here you hit the nail on the head Blissed. There are some people who spend their entire life unconscious. They often find jobs working in government burocracies.

So often the truth is spoken in jest...

cynicism · January 19th, 2006 10:10 AM

Belgareth wrote:

Do I detect a small degree of cynicism in your comment V2? ;-)
Picking up on Blissed's (hell, how do you pronounce that!) comment about the consciousness being a small part of the mind, I do believe that there is some feasibility in the philosophical concept that what we consider to be our awake and conscious state is, in fact, our sleep state and vice versa.

No, that's me, not him!

I wonder if someone's intelligence might be related to what proportion of their mind is conscious? Might that mean that dumb people have better dreams?

jdudley76 · January 19th, 2006 04:08 PM

Last week I was having a dream that a wolf was running towards me to attack. When it jumped to attack me, I kicked out hard with my right foot to kick him in the jaw. I remember being momentarily confused that the wolf's jaw was so hard, and thought I kicked a rock somehow instead. Then I realized I was in bed and I had just kicked the side of my desk really hard. My toe is still bruised.

I resently heard (though I don't remember where) that when you go to sleep, it's not so much parts of your brain shutting down, as it is different parts loosing their connections to one another.

alisha_x · January 21st, 2006 05:16 AM

Hi jdudley76,

Ive never heard that before,
might that be why logic has no bearing on most dreams? (ie something like being able to breath underwater not seeming odd in the dream)

Maybe if the logic part stays connected you get Lucid dreaming where you know your asleep because you can rationalise it cant be a waking experience?

Or am i going off on a pointless thought experiment here?

Belgareth · January 21st, 2006 07:40 AM

cynicism wrote:

No, that's me, not him!
I wonder if someone's intelligence might be related to what proportion of their mind is conscious? Might that mean that dumb people have better dreams?

Sorry Cynicism, I must have been asleep and missed this post of yours. You obviously appreciated my slightly blunt wit (or maybe it was a double-edge sword ;-) )

I have a problem with the measurement of intelligence. The only thing intelligence tests prove is whether or not you can do intelligence tests. However, I am always drawn into debate when it comes to any comparision of intellects. I find that degrees of stupidity are measured by subjective social yardstick, rather than objective one and, consequently, mistakes are often made.

It is frequently conjectured that people who are born with Down's Syndrome or Autism are afflicted with "mental retardation" (I really dislike the expression but that's what the dictionaries use) and appear stupid. Yes, there is indication that those people have vivid dreams, that they are often self-absorbed and have little regard for others but that description could also be said to fit other social misfits - lager louts and football hooligans spring to mind

In my own experience these disorders cause people to behave differently but they frequently exhibit levels of intellect far superior to the norm and once you find the right subject , the conversations, at times, can be more exhilarating than the ones I have with supposedly "normal" people.

Shifting back to the more mundane, a number of years ago I was dealing with someone who had absorbed neither the ability to read and write nor carry out any mathematical calculation whilst at school. He was considered, by his peers, to be stupid. This could not have been further from the truth as he could calculate betting odds at lightning speed (although he didn't know how). He became a very successful and affluent turf accountant.

I will now appologise to SCSIgirl for high-jacking his thread to have my rant.

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