How many of you do stupid things during the night or very early in the morning while you are still half asleep? Come on now, raise your hands if you have ever done something stupid or funny?
Well, at 11pm last night I took some heavy duty pain killers and some sleep medications. I have been fighting another round of migraine headaches and have been sleep deprived for about 3 weeks. I have had enough!!!
Anyway, I finally pass out and got to sleep around midnight. At 3am I wake up thinking I am going into the bathroom to piddle. Well, hubby awakes and finds me sleep walking in the kitchen making coffee! LOL When he asks me what I am doing…I tell him to get out, I am trying to pee!
Obviously, I wasn’t trying to go to the bathroom but instead was making us coffee at 3am. Sigh! I get back into bed once he fully has me awake and about 30 minutes later I go back to sleep.
At 5:30am I get up again and head down the hallway to grab fresh linens out of the linen closet. He hears me making all kinds of noise and gets up again to find me stuffing our folded, clean bed linens into the refrigerator & our juice pitcher topples out onto the kitchen floor.
Lesson Learned, Perhaps I should be strapped down in bed if I am going to take heavy duty meds!!!
So, have you ever done anything stupid or funny while sleepwalking or half asleep? I would love to know if I am the only idiot in the world or not!
I( haven’t had any incidents of sleepwalking, but my husband has been on some strong medications that can cause him to be half asleep and do strange things. He would think that we had had a conversation when we hadn’t been talking.
Sounds like you may have been taking Ambien, a sleeping medication that is widely known to make people sleepwalk, do strange things like the coffee making. I have migraines also, since I was a teenager, so I know that when dealing with a migraine some meds have those weird side effects, and if you haven’t gotten any relief from meds, attempts to try to sleep through it often end up with me standing in the kitchen with no memory of walking there. People who don’t suffer migraines cannot begin to understand; I get so tired of hearing “it’s just a headache.” Good luck with yours, and maybe put a bell on a ring around the bedroom door. I have mine on both doors leading outside; I don’t want to end up walking around the yard at 3 in the morning in my nightgown.
After a concert, I dropped off my sister and her husband and started to drive home, but it was very late and I was very tired. Knowing it wasn’t safe to drive that way. I pulled over into a park, locked the car doors, and fell asleep. I woke up when a policeman shone his flashlight in my face! I don’t know who was more scared, me or him–he said he thought I was a murder victim.
I don’t remember anything specific, but I don’t track well after I wake up – takes me about an hour to be able to think straight.
I have a terrible time with insomnia but fortunately I have never wandered around the house in my sleep. But some mornings I am so tired I am clumsy. Last week prior to my first cup of coffee I took food to my cats and dropped both bowls on the floor right in front of them with that nasty fishy food all over the floor. Cleaned it up, made my coffee and put a teaspoon of salt in it instead of sugar. I didn’t realize it until I had settled down in my chair and started to drink it.
My husband doesn’t get enough sleep so he will often start to doze off. He can have conversations, hold a coffee cup….He will even answer yes without knowing to what. I can’t really think of anything for me, but I know eating sweets and carbs sounds like a good idea when you are half awake. After surgeries in that out of it but still half there state, my daughter has made phone and texted. Luckily it’s been more humorous things/spelling that things to get her in trouble. She has made me promise to take the phone away from her next time.
I have been sleep deprived and done stupid stuff, like making coffee but forgetting to put the pot under the drip machine. I can not remember a lot of the stories, but there are some that are not safe. I am too embarrassed to share. I hope you get sleep soon!
I hope your migraines are better for the time being. No I don’t sleep walk thankfully. I have to stretch my legs a bit before getting up or they don’t work well, lol. Once I get the blood circulating to get up, I’m pretty much with it, a safety mechanism for sleep walking I guess!
I really don’t recommend taking pain killers and sleep aides. I am an ICU nurse and see all kinds of overdoses and mishaps after taking medications. Please be careful mixing drugs like this. While it is funny, serious consequences can happen.
Hi Heather,
They are prescribed medications, not over the counter and prescribed by my doctor to be taken together. No worries my dear.
I haven’t, unless you count the time that I actually fell asleep standing up only to wake up when I hit the floor. I had taken meds as well and gone into the kitchen for some reason. But my hubby…before he got his CPAP machine he was totally sleep deprived and started sleep walking. He would do all kinds of crazy things, once he must have tried to eat his deodorant because we found teeth scrape marks across the top. Yuck!