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Posted by David Pescovitz, February 18, 2009 10:31 AM | permalink
According to a case described in the medical journal Sleep Medicine, a 44-year-old sleepwalker logged onto her computer and emailed out party invitations to friends. Fortean Times magazine looks at this case and several other bizarre episodes of somnambulism. From Fortean Times:
The mails themselves were perhaps not up to the woman’s waking standard; each was in a random mix of upper and lower case characters, badly formatted and containing odd expressions. One read: “Come tomorrow and sort this hell hole out. Dinner and drinks, 4.pm. Bring wine and caviar only.” Another said simply: “What the…”

The writers of the report have dubbed this new variation of sleepwalking ‘zzz-mailing’. They say: “We believe writing an email after turning the computer on, connecting to the Internet and remembering the password displayed by our patient is novel. To our knowledge this type of complex behaviour requiring coordinated movements has not been reported before in sleepwalking. She was shocked when she saw these emails, as she did not recall writing them. She did not have any history of night terr­ors or sleepwalking as a child.”

Unlike simple sleepwalking, they argue, the activities the woman engaged in required complex behaviour and coordinated movement, as well being able to remember her login details. She had no memory of the events next day. It’s thought that the somnambulistic episode may have been triggered by prescript­ion medication.

my kid has night terrors, he can answer questions, and remember nothing from it the next day, or even if he wakes up a minute later, won't realise he was just having a conversation with you

ZombieKitten said:

My sister used to have those. I would have to wake up my Mom cause my sister would be staring out the window in her bedroom,talking about somebody out there trying to get her,but after you told her everything was fine,she would lay back down,and go back to sleep,and not remember anything in the morning. It was kind of scary.

EmeraldSkies said:

when my sister was little she did it too, but she used to stare right through me, and I was convinced she could see ghosts. She'd play the piano in her sleep and wake everyone up including herself, and she would get such a fright she'd be screaming!

ZombieKitten said:

It's wweird how the mind works,even while asleep some people can do normal activities.

My dad would prepare food and eat it and when he woke up, he would wonder why his mouth tasted like tuna and onions.
I always thought this phenomenon was quite funny and intriguing that people do things while sleep walking and don't remember doing them.

EmeraldSkies said:

On a related note, I'm suddenly starting to understand all the other posts I've written on this site.

Ace said: