I've mentioned before that I do not cut with knives or anything... my form of self mutilation is actually very common but hard to diagnose unless it is admitted because it is so unnoticable. When my hands are dry I rip open the cracks - looks like they just cracked on their own. I rip at my scalp till it bleeds, but my hair is thick and nobody sees the scabs. Most of all I rip at the skin on my lips... this is my favorite because unless I rip to close to the skin in front or behind my lip the good feeling is maximum and the pain is minimum. Everyone just thinks I have chronic chapped lips.

Now that you have a background on my SI issues, here is my question. Anyone ever woken up with more cuts than you went to bed with? I've been good about leaving my lips and hands alone lately (still not behaving with my scalp but hey, its a start). Then, this morning I wake up with scabs all over my lips and new cuts on my hands. Its so weird. Its not like I've never done anything weird in my sleep before... I talk, curse, flail around, and when I was a teen I used to sleep-eat. Its weird... if I cut in my sleep, is this a SI issue or a sleep disorder? I'm really weirded out by this mornings findings.