[Mountaindewed]

I have very bad dry skin. I scratch myself so hard to the point where I’m bleeding. I do it in my sleep.

Today I woke up and saw that I had a bandaid on. I took it off and their was a sort of deep gash from where I had been scratching.

I’m freaked out. I do not remember at all going downstairs and getting a bandaid. I looked in the drawer this morning, and nothing looked out of place or anything.

I believe in ghosts, but honestly, I’m more worried about severe sleep walking then I am of ghosts. I have heard on the news of people who were sleep walking so badly that they left their houses and took the bus places.

Also some lady was sleep walking and walked off a cliff.

Does anyone know how this could happen?

I was a sleep walker. I've had full conversations with people in my sleep. I would go down to the kitchen and eat in my sleep. I only knew about this stuff because other people would tell me. I had zero recollection. I also have taken a sleeping pill that had the same effect. I would do things without remembering them at all. I don't have advice, but it's totally possible you did it in your sleep.

I wouldn’t know if people hadn’t told me, but yeah, I do talk or walk in my sleep.

My daughter thinks this is why one of our cats mews in my face in the night, waking me up, because the cat never does this to her.

I can’t say it’s my meds because I’ve always done this.

I’ve heard ambien is the drug that makes people do weird things like drive a car in their sleep.

[Mountaindewed]

Wow I didn’t even think of driving a car in my sleep. I’m going to start driving in a couple weeks.

But yeah I just worry about doing something really dangerous in my sleep. I seriously had no recollection of last night. It’s unnerving because I always remember at least a small part of my sleep walking incidents.

There was one time where my mom says I came downstairs and ate some hamburger helper. I told her she was sleeping or something because that did not happen. I don’t know. Maybe it did.

I guess just have her hide the car keys?

I’d like to eventually get a sleep study done. I’m on lamictal. Which I have read can cause sleep behaviors.

[Mountaindewed]

I am also worried I’ll have to get evaluated if something big happens.

I don’t know if that means a sleep study, or a stay in a psych hospital. I am worried about the latter.

Is that true?

I wouldn't worry too much about it...sure, you could have sleepwalked. But since it's not a recurring thing that you or anyone else knows of, don't jump the gun. If you were a problematic sleepwalker, I don't see going to the psych hospital as the first place one would turn. Anyway I'm sorry this is disturbing you.

I do weird things in my sleep, like talk. Boyfriends have told me, lol.

[Mountaindewed]

I took 6 milligrams of melatonin instead of my usual 3 milligrams. I didn’t sleep walk but I had a pretty bad reaction to the higher dose of melatonin. I had really bad sleep paralysis, vivid nightmares, auditory hallucinations, and I woke up confused because I thought I had wet the bed. Luckily I didn’t. I was trying so hard to scream for help and run out of bed. But I couldn’t.

I didn’t have any other choice accept for another melatonin. It was very late.

But my sleep walking and especially my reactions to melatonin i don’t think are normal.

I probably should ask for a referral for a sleep study.

Especially if this stuff happens almost every night.

[LabRat27]

Originally Posted by Bozdickens

I took 6 milligrams of melatonin instead of my usual 3 milligrams. I didn’t sleep walk but I had a pretty bad reaction to the higher dose of melatonin. I had really bad sleep paralysis, vivid nightmares, auditory hallucinations, and I woke up confused because I thought I had wet the bed. Luckily I didn’t. I was trying so hard to scream for help and run out of bed. But I couldn’t.


I didn’t have any other choice accept for another melatonin. It was very late.


But my sleep walking and especially my reactions to melatonin i don’t think are normal.


I probably should ask for a referral for a sleep study.


Especially if this stuff happens almost every night.

Have you tried a much lower dose of melatonin? Too much can actually make insomnia worse and cause you to wake up in the middle of the night.
0.25mg is a lot more helpful for me than 3mg.

[Mountaindewed]

I’ve never seen that low of a dose. Where do you get it from?

[LabRat27]

Originally Posted by Bozdickens

I’ve never seen that low of a dose. Where do you get it from?

I cut a 1mg tablet into fourths. They also make gummies which might be easier to cut than a tablet.