Comments on: There’s a reason it contains “ambulance”

By: Emily

Emily — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 17:57:07 +0000

How has nobody mentioned Snakes on a Mother F***ing Plane yet? That made me laugh SO hard, thank you!
My boyfriend has ‘jumpy legs’ and kicks in the night. Often he turns around 180 degrees in his sleep and on a few occasions when he’s really wiggly I have crawled to the foot of the bed and stroked his calf saying ‘Ryan? Ryan can you turn around and lie normally please? I can’t sleep.’ and he wakes up thinking I’m the crazy one…

By: Shalee

Shalee — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 15:02:55 +0000

Mir, when I discussed this with Mr. Right he said I forgot to include the bit about avoiding milk products at night. For some reason, milk seems to acerbate this condition too. There. I’ve done my wifely duty and won’t bother you about it again.

By: carrien

carrien — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 02:08:29 +0000

My mom’s husband fights people in his sleep. She often slips out of bed and goes to the spare room on nights when she’s been smacked in the face to many times by a thrashing sleeping man.

My BIL when he was very young dreamed that the house was on fire and that he needed to rescue everyone, The kid was a sleep walker and so his brothers watched horrified as he PUT HIS FOOT THROUGH THE BEDROOM WINDOW in order to create an escape route. They worried all the time that he would find his father’s guns in his sleep and shoot them to defend against whatever he was dreaming was attacking his family.

Maybe you could tie him to the bed?

By: Taylor

Taylor — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 17:59:47 +0000

Holy crap. I would have just up and died right there the moment that he said, “Mir, I am awake. There is a snake in the bed.” I mean DIED. That would be the scariest thing I can imagine.

Though, I once woke up convinced I was being electrocuted because my fan was making an odd buzzing sound. I literally THRE myself on the floor, convinced that I had to get out of the electrical current that was somehow gluing me to my bed.

Crazy things happen in the sleep/awake state.

By: Jenifer

Jenifer — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 17:31:01 +0000

I really shouldn’t laugh….

but, come on, it’s too damn funny not to!

By: Shari

Shari — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 17:02:14 +0000

Oh dear. SNAKES!!!

ROFLOL.

I have to say that I know that story all too well, except I have spider dreams. I have only walked in my sleep or had other night terrors a few times, but for YEARS it was huge 2′ across spiders looming over the bed and dropping down. Somewhere in the air between the bed and the light switch I would wake up. Then I would stand there for a few minutes trying to convince myself it wasn’t real, or rifling delicately through the covers trying to unearth the demonic creature. At some point I learned to use the vision test to help me determine if they were real. If I was standing at the light switch without my glasses on, and could remember every hairy leg, then I knew it was a dream. Then, all I had to do was wait for the adrenaline to work its way out of my system. My Mom and sister had different night terrors.

Best wishes to you for getting a good night’s sleep. It may be startling to you, but it is conforting to know that I am not alone!

By: Shalee

Shalee — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 14:52:13 +0000

Hey, I think I might have the answer to this one because my husband used to do this night activity too. (Note the “used to” bit.) We discovered, after much trial and error, that his allergies were causing him to have all sorts of weird walking dreams/sleep talking activities. So now he takes a decongestant and he’s on the WalMart version of Claritin and life is good again. Otto’s forrays may be solved with the same simple OTC meds and you can have a great night sleep again.

*I’d post about some of the highly comical situations that I’ve found my husband or the sitcom scenarios, but Mr. Right said he would kill me if I did. Although I don’t think he really means it, I’m erring on the side of caution in this case… Too bad because they really would make great blog fodder.

By: Angel

Angel — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 13:02:52 +0000

My sisters and I used to sleepwalk (usually during/after illness). Then I outgrew it…my one sister didn’t. She called her boyfriend in the middle of the night when she was in college. We figured it was stress.

There are natural remedies for sleep/restless leg–maybe give it a try? My husband kicks in his sleep. Ayiyiyi.

By: mama speak

mama speak — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 18:15:37 +0000

My BFF growning up used to sleep walk (I haven’t asked if she still does it). When she was about 5 she got up one night, opened the hall closet door, closed herself in the hall closet and puked all over the vacuum. Her folks heard a door opening & closing and knew she was sleep walking, but it took them a while to find her. (Apparently she was dreaming that she’d gone in the bathroom to hurl in the toilet.) They found her in the closet “washing her hands”. The vacuum was never the same after that.

By: Flea

Flea — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 17:50:40 +0000

What fun! My husband walked and peed in his sleep as a kid – his mom says she had to replace the dresser drawers because of it. Now he talks occasionally, and several people have have commented with what works for us. After having a fun conversation and drawing as much nonsense information out of him as I can (I like the sleep conversations), I gently tell him to go back to sleep and he does. Kinda like poking him when he snores and telling him to lie on his side. He just does it.