I want to know, when we sleep walk, are our eyes open or closed?
I used to sleep walk when I was a teen and once I found myself sitting at the dining table eating a sandwich.. I had no recollection of when/how I made the sandwich ! that was a freak incident .. the sleep walking went away thankfully after a while ..
someone mentioned they sleepwalk and it brought back the memory of that one incident .. so now I am thinking may be I have skills of making a sandwich with my eyes closed
or is it that people’s eyes are open and they blink but their mind is sleeping?
My case..eyes open, mind asleep…have had 2 scary/potentially dangerous sleep walking episodes:
I was about 8-9 years old. My Khala was getting married, all the functions were being held in our house..a bunch of us were sleeping in the living room..I got up and went to the front door..unlocked it and walked outside. My Khala immediately woke up and followed after me and brought me back inside! This particular incident I don’t really remember, but I’ve heard it over and over and over again over the years
this next one I remember very well: I was pregnant with our oldest son..I woke up in the middle of the night..went straight to the alarm system pad on our bedroom wall, deactivated the alarm (that’s when my husband woke up!) and then started to walk to the front door..he followed me, didn’t want to wake me right away for fear of shocking me (!) so he nervously watched as I again opened the front door…I remember feeling a whoosh of cold air and that’s when I woke up! I looked at him and was like “what the heck am I doing here!”
my nephew used to sleep walk when he was little. he always had his eyes open. he used to talk as well but do things that an awake person would never do…one night he opened the fridge door and tried to sit in here. lol
we were worried while traveling by train. we always kept vigil during an overnight train ride…he could easily open the door and walk out of the moving train. such thoughts were enough to send chills down my sister’s spine.
Its dangerous as well coz you never know what you might end up doing .. Like is a person sleep walks out on to the road, would they actually look left and right first before crossing it? or would they just keep walking randomly?
I used to do sleepwalks when i was around 10 but fortunately it didnt last longer, every time i ended up going to my mother’s room and ask about different stuff like one incident when my sis was few days old and we were deciding her name, i went to her and asked whats the name we have finalized and one or 2 more talks related to her but mum took me to the bed and i didnt remember anything i did, glad it was over in few months and was not that frequent.
teenage years…only one incident that anyone ever figured out…
eyes open, talking and warning everyone that there was a fire and we should get out quickly (no fire at all), mind was definitely asleep cuz I have no recall of the incident.
apparently I was guided back to my bed by ammi and bhai after being assured that there was no fire.
the next day my Stephen King novel “Firestarter” was confiscated from my room.
hubby is a hoot.
sleep eats!!!
those who know him personally find this to be no surprise…
have found him sitting up in bed in the middle of the night, pretending to hold a plate of food, making niwalay, placing them in his mouth and even licking his fingers clean as if he were eating biryani.
