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I sleep walked with our first baby. I don't sleep walk normally and as far as I know this was the first only time period when I did. Apparently my wife would te
by zaphar 11y ago
I sleep walked with our first baby. I don't sleep walk normally and as far as I know this was the first only time period when I did. Apparently my wife would tell me to get the baby and I would do it in my sleep with absolutely no recollection after of having done so.
- hola_hola 11y agoYou were not sleep walking. You were fully awake. At the time you were fully conscious but as soon as you went to sleep you forgot about it. It has happened to me many times. Usually when I'm not getting enough sleep.
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- jacobolus 11y agoThis is a semantic quibble as much as a substantive one. “Asleep” vs. “awake” isn’t really a binary distinction. Both sleepwalking (which isn’t a single well-defined thing) and the kind of awake-but-then-suffer-amnesia states you are talking about (can be caused by extreme tiredness, too much alcohol, dementia, etc.) fall somewhere in between full alertness and deep sleep.
- civilian 11y agoI think sleepwalking _is_ a defined thing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleepwalking https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleepwalking What Zaphar is describing is not true sleepwalking, it's just that he was awake such a short time that he didn't form memories about it. In much the same way that I can't remember how I walked to work this morning.
- tamana 11y agoThe difference between sleepwalking and not remembering your wakeup is in how alert and responsive you are during the up time.