Sleep

When I was that age I would wake in different rooms of the house, sometimes in awkward and uncomfortable positions. Once I woke up on the front porch and that was pretty scary. The worst was waking up under my bed, it was a waterbed so there is no real "under" to it. What it did have was a tight little crawl space where the heating element wires were and I could only fit if I tucked my arms up tight into my chest and slithered in like a snake. The crawl space went from one side to the other so in theory I could have just crawled forward and gotten out, however my bed was in the corner of the room so the only way out was to slowly and calmly back up. Waking up in a closed tight space like that with not a whole lot of light to clearly see where I was; one of the most terrifying experiences I have ever had. It's what I imagine it would be like to wake up in a coffin after being buried alive.
Omg I had a water bed and that is a very narrow space. That had to be awful.
 
Yikes!! I'm glad you were able to get through that safely. I'm pretty familiar with the I-5 corridor, we lived in Santa Fe Springs for a little bit right were the 5 and the 605 meet. I would want to walk around that area while wide awake!

Do you still sleep walk? I've definitely been doing it less and less as I get older but it's not something that's really gone away.

I don’t sleepwalk now. My (15 year) live-in GF just confirmed it for me.
 
I just read that so wrong. I thought you wrote your live in “15 year old”. I was like, Huh!??? Lol :hearnoevil::joycat::joycat:
I'll be making your eye appt. for sometime next week!
 
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I used to get night terrors as a child. I’d wake my poor mom up screaming at the top of my lungs. I would always dream that I was getting smashed by something falling on me. I was sick one time and my Dr prescribed me codeine for a nasty cough. My mom heard me screaming and came into my room only to find me standing up on my top bunk bed about to leap off towards the closed window. She ran in a caught me as I leapt off. I woke up in her arms not knowing what had just happened.
 
I used to get night terrors as a child. I’d wake my poor mom up screaming at the top of my lungs. I would always dream that I was getting smashed by something falling on me. I was sick one time and my Dr prescribed me codeine for a nasty cough. My mom heard me screaming and came into my room only to find me standing up on my top bunk bed about to leap off towards the closed window. She ran in a caught me as I leapt off. I woke up in her arms not knowing what had just happened.

Children can trip on codeine. I used to edge it along by mixing it with alcohol - age 14 was a bad time for me.
 
I used to get night terrors as a child. I’d wake my poor mom up screaming at the top of my lungs. I would always dream that I was getting smashed by something falling on me. I was sick one time and my Dr prescribed me codeine for a nasty cough. My mom heard me screaming and came into my room only to find me standing up on my top bunk bed about to leap off towards the closed window. She ran in a caught me as I leapt off. I woke up in her arms not knowing what had just happened.
I used to get night terrors too - there was no one there to stop me, so once I fell from a top bunk bed and bruised my right side badly. Another time, I tried to run, got tangled in my blankets, and fell right on my face, knocking my front teeth out of alignment. I am so glad they they don't happen anymore!
 
I used to get night terrors too - there was no one there to stop me, so once I fell from a top bunk bed and bruised my right side badly. Another time, I tried to run, got tangled in my blankets, and fell right on my face, knocking my front teeth out of alignment. I am so glad they they don't happen anymore!

Ouch!!! That is seriously brutal! I’m glad you don’t get them anymore either.
 
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Ouch!!! That is seriously brutal! I’m glad you don’t get them anymore either.
An occasional screaming episode is all that happens now, thank goodness. Once, I had a doctor ask if my husband had beat me (this was an episode that happened when I was a young, unmarried adult) I laughed and said I didn't even have a husband at the time. I guess saying I fell out of bed sounded pretty lame, LOL.