Mama Kat Thursday: Sleepwalking

Have you ever walked in your sleep?

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Actually, I have. More then once. In this particular experience I'm going to share today, I do remember the details of my actions, but I remember them like an observer. It was like my conscious mind was just a passenger, watching what I was doing in a vehicle being driven by my unconscious.

Perhaps it's because I'm a lucid dreamer by nature. Lucid dreamers are aware they are dreaming.

When we were kids, my two younger sisters and I shared a bedroom. It was a large, spacious room. I slept in a full-size double bed and my sisters had the bunk-bed. Now this bunk bed was not your average store-bought type. This bunk bed was a huge, heavy wood one constructed by our Dad. The mattresses for it seemed a bit wider then your average single-size mattress, so they were plenty roomy.

I had a penchant for wanting to sleepwalk myself into the lower bunk bed. In this particular instance, it was younger sister sleeping in it. Perhaps I was cold and that was my motivation. I don't recall.

What I do recall is becoming mentally aware of what I was doing as I was walking around the end of the bunk bed. I clearly remember looking through the wood ladder on the end of the bed as I passed it, on my way around to the far side, putting me in in what was technically my younger sisters "corner" of the room.
 (We each had a portion of the room to call our own.)  

Lifting the covers, I started getting into her bed with her. 

She suddenly sat up beside me and asked, "What are you doing?"

I remember answering, "I don't know."

She replied, Okay," then we both lay down and fell asleep.

Sometime later, feeling incredibly warm, I woke up and realized with a start that I wasn't alone: I was in bed with my sister. Looking to my side of the room, I saw my own bed, quite empty.
Hastily, I hopped out of her bed and back to my own.

It's a funny memory that often gets retold at family get together's with much laughter.

Luckily, my sleepwalking as a kid was pretty limited to just a couple episodes of getting in bed with a sister.

Later in life, however, long after I was married, I did wake up to find myself standing in our clothes closet a couple times, but that's a story for another time.

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So, have you ever done any sleepwalking?

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