Sleeping Disorders?

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Sleeping Disorders?

Sat Dec 16, 2006 10:55:31 AM #30065 Perm Link

I don't toss and turn much and I don't snore but I frequently talk and occasionally sleep walk.

Anyone else?

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Re: Sleeping Disorders?

Sat Dec 16, 2006 11:13:35 AM #30067 Perm Link

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Wow, you sleep walk?

That's nuts!

Nope, I'm fine Smile

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Sat Dec 16, 2006 12:28:51 PM #30068 Perm Link

I sleep in a bunk bed so if I slept walk it'd be trouble. :/

As far as I know I'm fine.

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Sat Dec 16, 2006 2:40:20 PM #30070 Perm Link

My little brother seriously sleep walks and talks (but not in any real language). He sleep interacts - I once found him rustling through papers near my bed shouting "Where is it!? Where is it!?" so I asked him what he was looking for and he replied "Tots!" I asked him what Tots were and if I knew what they were, I could help him look for it. He yelled and cursed and than ran back to his room. Didn't remember it the next day. But he does that sort of thing alot. Sometimes waking up the whole house by screaming and running around in his sleep. Eerie.

As for me, no, I sleep fine. I'm a light sleeper though so I wake up easily

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Sun Dec 17, 2006 8:44:13 AM #30109 Perm Link

My dad talks in his sleep and has like sleeping hag syndrome... I don't know the techinical name for it. I've experienced it a few times, where you think you are awake but you can't get up and can't open your eyes. Since getting my sleep on a better schedule it doesn't bother me, but my dad still gets it all the time.

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Re[2]: Sleeping Disorders?

Mon Dec 18, 2006 2:55:43 PM #30188 Perm Link

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Wow, you sleep walk?

That's nuts!

Nope, I'm fine .

Thanks...

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My little brother--

Jaego???

Said By ArtemisPanthar
--seriously sleep walks and talks (but not in any real language). He sleep interacts - I once found him rustling through papers near my bed shouting "Where is it!? Where is it!?" so I asked him what he was looking for and he replied "Tots!" I asked him what Tots were and if I knew what they were, I could help him look for it. He yelled and cursed and than ran back to his room. Didn't remember it the next day. But he does that sort of thing alot. Sometimes waking up the whole house by screaming and running around in his sleep. Eerie.

That's pretty much the kind of stuff I do (only not as loud perhaps)... Once I walked onto the porch in winter in just a t-shirt and underwear and muttered at my dad who was out smoking. I did not remember it the next day.

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Re[3]: Sleeping Disorders?

Mon Dec 18, 2006 3:57:23 PM #30192 Perm Link

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Nono, Jaego's just my younger brother (he's only 11 months younger than I am, hardly little XD) my little brother is about 13. I'm always worried about that sort of mix-up, though.

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Re[4]: Sleeping Disorders?

Mon Dec 18, 2006 6:07:33 PM #30200 Perm Link

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Where is Jaego? He never comes on anymore... that bastard!

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Mon Dec 18, 2006 8:34:49 PM #30212 Perm Link

I don't know if this is considered a sleep disorder.. but at least 3 or 4 times a month, I can not fall asleep and end up either going to school or work with no sleep at all. It sucks just laying there and not being able to fall asleep.

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Mon Dec 18, 2006 9:32:46 PM #30220 Perm Link

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Jaego works a whole lot and doesn't have much free time these days

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I don't know if this is considered a sleep disorder.. but at least 3 or 4 times a month, I can not fall asleep and end up either going to school or work with no sleep at all. It sucks just laying there and not being able to fall asleep.

Of course that's a disorder. Commonly known as insomnia. Like, actual insomnia, not people who like to stay up all night claiming to be insomniacs.

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Mon Dec 18, 2006 9:41:08 PM #30222 Perm Link

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oh i'll talk in my sleep if you talk to me...haha but yah my dad has a sleeping disorder and i think it's genitic =/ b/c my sister got symptoms of it when she turned about 23ish and thats about the age my dad started getting symptoms so i'm hoping that my moms genes will cancel out my dads sleeping disorder ones!

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Mon Dec 18, 2006 9:41:50 PM #30223 Perm Link

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I think that's a jab at Dave Attell

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Mon Dec 18, 2006 9:46:26 PM #30224 Perm Link

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I think that's a jab at Dave Attell

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oh yah i forgot to mention what happens during the disorder soo yah you go to sleep and you can't wake up, and the dream is soo realistic that you don't know weather your sleeping or if your awake, and most of the time you see a dark figure that is suppoust to be a evil guy, and the only way my dad knows if hes in this state is if he can to a backflip b/c he knows for a fact that in real life he cant do one of thoose anymore (he used to be athletic but now he's got a fat milk belly)... soo yah

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Mon Dec 18, 2006 11:02:07 PM #30229 Perm Link

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He was referring to my post, darling. In anycase, it's not really a jab at Dave Attell (although, granted, I don't like his humor) but really the absurd amount of people who start that they're insomniacs when they're not. I find that sort of thing irritating XD

No disrespect, Meeez, but that doesn't sound like a disorder so much as a...dream... Possibly the 'can't wake up thing' but it's common for (particularly heavy sleepers) to not be able to wake up until they get a certain amount of sleep. And it's common for everyone to not be able to discern dream from reality (infact, I think it's uncommon to realize your dreams are dreams at the time you're dreaming them).

Psychologically, Jung mentions the concept of the 'Shadow' showing up in dreams. Kind of like your opposite which would be seen as 'evil' in a lot of cases, depending on your psychological state. Kind of depends on your opinion on what dreams mean (if anything).

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Mon Dec 18, 2006 11:26:23 PM #30230 Perm Link

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no, trust me it's a disorder, he has to take sleeping pills that the doctor prescribes every night b/c of it. theres lots of people that go through it, i'll tell you what it's called tomorrow i just have to ask my pops.

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Tue Dec 19, 2006 9:05:32 AM #30240 Perm Link

If you try to wake me up and I don't wake up I'll start talking to you and I'll yell at you for waking me up and stuff, but I don't remember doing any of that XD one time my friend wanted me to call my friend but I was asleep and she was all "COme on Morgan! DOn't you wanna talk to him" and I was all "No I gotta eat him..."

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Re[4]: Sleeping Disorders?

Wed Dec 20, 2006 9:25:37 PM #30359 Perm Link

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he's only 11 months younger than I am, hardly little XD

Sorry about the mix up. So you guys are Irish twins, huh? Wink

Back to sleeping disorders...

My mom snores pretty bad even though I don't. I think it might have something to do with her weight because one summer she lost fifty pounds and the snoring lessened a lot and when the weight came back so did the horrendous snoring. But her dad (who was a bean pole all his life) snored badly as well.

As far as I know, I'm the first one in the family to have this talking and walking problem. I still have a lot of my motor functions when I sleep walk. My eyes are open. I talk (though not in any easily discernable language). I've even gotten dressed (though I may have had a sock missing and two different shoes on) and made a sandwhich (so what if it was bologna on dry bread?) before.

My sister, who's come to live with us for a while, learned the hard way that if you wake me up to tell me something and let me go back to sleep you have to have me answer 'Yes, I'll do that.' and repeat the instructions before you can trust that I am actually awake.

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Re[5]: Sleeping Disorders?

Fri Dec 22, 2006 7:36:51 AM #30403 Perm Link

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More like Irish Triplets, I already have a twin XD Infact, if memory serves, my mother used to tell people we were triplets, because then people were more keen on letting her rent a house (evidently, it was OK to let three children go homeless unless they're triplets. No matter, though, I'm just bitter XD).

Oh! Let me get my book, it has something about snoring in it...

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To begin with, women have anatomically different airway circumference so if there is any obstruction, there's a chance the air passing through will not be as likely to hit the oropharyngeal structures as it would in a man. Additionally, a woman's airway is less prone to collapse as it would a man's airway, and that works in her favor as far as snoring is concerned.
When men put on weight they tend to put it on around the neck area, whereas women put on weight around the hips. The fatty tissue around the neck literally squeezes the airway closed so air can't pass through smoothly. Air then hits the structures within the throat and vibrates them, which causes the noise we know as snoring.

There's a bit more talking about drinking, smoking, and pregnancy being contributors but I don't think they apply here. Anyway, I imagine if you gain a lot of weight, even a female would gain some around their neck and thus block the passage as it often does for males.

I believe sleep walking/talking is a recessive gene, could've been latent in your family tree for years. I'm curious, though, is any part of your family from England? I watched a program a few months back (101 bizarre cases in sleepwalking or something similar) that talked about a high rate of sleepwalkers/talkers in the country, specifically in a certain area (I can't recall where, but I reckon somewhere near London). They also mentioned a prominent research facility for sleepwalkers there, which is probably why there are so many in that area (anyone who sleepwalks and wants treatment for it would then move to the area and likely breed, potentially with others afflicted and thus continue to pass on the gene). I found that very interesting since part of my family is from England (my father's mother's side), which I assume is why my brother is a sleepwalker (interestingly, since there are four children in my family it seems to follow the Mendell box chart thing exactly, with one in the four gaining both recessive genes and thus the trait)

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Wed Dec 27, 2006 9:27:02 AM #30632 Perm Link

Nope. No English here.

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Wed Dec 27, 2006 10:19:45 AM #30639 Perm Link

I have insomnia. That's about it for me.

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Thu Dec 28, 2006 2:34:47 PM #30796 Perm Link

I was told that last night I was humming in my sleep. My sister woke me up and told me to stop. If I'm interrupted that usually helps.

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Thu Dec 28, 2006 2:48:03 PM #30797 Perm Link

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That's like when people snore you hit them to make them stop.

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Thu Dec 28, 2006 4:44:13 PM #30810 Perm Link

To make someone stop snoring, you have to roll them on their side.

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Thu Dec 28, 2006 4:49:14 PM #30813 Perm Link

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To make someone stop snoring, you have to roll them on their side.

True, since that'd likely move the obstruction of the airway so they can breathe correctly.

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Thu Dec 28, 2006 4:51:20 PM #30814 Perm Link

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And when you tell them to roll over, they say EWHHHHHH.

And they continue to stay on their back.

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Thu Dec 28, 2006 4:52:57 PM #30815 Perm Link

Not if you hit them soon afterward.

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Thu Dec 28, 2006 5:28:21 PM #30832 Perm Link

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True.

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Thu Dec 28, 2006 11:41:54 PM #30890 Perm Link

I have laughed, cried, moaned and mumbled in my sleep...not all at once.

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Fri Dec 29, 2006 2:00:28 AM #30891 Perm Link

I have insomnia, but I have countered it by purposely not going to sleep.

I can at least do something with my time if I am not gonna sleep.

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Fri Dec 29, 2006 11:44:26 AM #30931 Perm Link

I basically stay on the computer all night. Nothing else for me to do, and I get a lot done.

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