From the article: Unexplained Nighttime Binges May Be Due to Sleep Eating Disorder
There are many potential causes to abnormal sleep behaviors, ranging from common parasomnias such as sleepwalking or sleep talking to strange behaviors such as sleep eating or sleep sex. The enactment of dreams in REM behavior disorder and the childhood episodes of sleep terrors may also lead to activities while asleep. Describe some of the strangest sleep behaviors that have been part of your life, either experienced by you or witnessed in someone you know. Describe Sleep Behaviors
scared toddler
- 18 month old wakens every night at the same time; crying, rapid heart rate; and terrified
- —Guest tina
LH
- Sometimes when I wake up in the night my husband is stroking the underside of his left arm w/his right hand...like a strumming/soothe yourself sort of motion. He holds his arms up over his head while he's doing it. Sometimes I'll catch him stroking his face real lightly that way (like across the temples to down the bridge of nose). When it wakes me, I'll look over at him trying to figure out what he's doing (I'm quite nearsighted so I have to really strain to see what in the heck is all this movement going on around me?, then suddenly he willl sense me watching or something, and throw his arms back down by his side or rollover, the like. He seems pretty unconscious when it's happening, but it is a real fascination trip to watch! What does it mean? Does he need therapy? Or, is it really okay, he's just self-soothing or something?
- —Guest Lisa
Nightmares and Insomnia
- My husband takes a long time to fall asleep every night, he usually nods off in the wee hours of the morning. Around 3 am and on he jerks around his whole body, and mutters, sometimes I get a good thump on the head, which will wake him up with appologies. He does take an anti-anxiety medication, an antidepressant, as well as asthma inhaler
- —Guest LEANNEI76
talking in sleep
- I talk in my sleep and am always telling my boyfriend that i don't want him to touch me and that i am gonna leave him
- —tayoung73
