5 Of The Weirdest Sleepwalking Stories You’ve Ever Heard

When the mind is away, the body can play. 

Over 8.4 million Americans sleepwalk on a semi-regular basis. While most sleepwalkers don’t do much besides walk around the house, some sleepwalking stories are so ridiculous that they have to be shared. 

Read on, and we’ll detail five of the weirdest sleepwalking stories you’ve ever heard. 

1. Jumping Out Of A Window

Comedian Mike Birbiglia managed to take his crazy sleepwalking story and turn it into a career. His stand up album, Sleepwalk With Me, details a series of sleepwalking stories that ends with him leaping out of the second story window of a hotel. 

Birbiglia explains that he wasn’t attempting to hurt himself. But the nightmare he was having was so vivid that his body catapulted itself from his room in order to avoid this imaginary threat.

Many other sleepwalkers have similar stories of accidentally harming themselves. Falling down stairs, off the bad, or into heavy objects can be common for sleepwalkers, and a danger to their physical health. 

Sleep apnea and sleepwalking can even affect a person’s life insurance rates. If you know someone suffering from sleep apnea, you should try to learn more about how this risk affects insurance rates. 

2. Organized A Party

One 44-year old women took it upon herself while asleep to be a good host. 

The women logged onto her computer and began e-mailing party invitations out to family, friends, and co-workers. As you might imagine, these e-mails were fairly incoherent. Most failed to mention an occasion for the party, and just told recipients to show up at a specific time. One said to bring caviar. 

The woman, upon waking, had no recollection of sending such invites.

3. Cleaning Out The Fridge 

One Reddit user shared one of our favorite sleepwalking stories of all time. While crashing at a friend’s place, they awoke and headed to the kitchen. 

Instead of making a sandwich or snack as many sleepwalkers do, this individual rearranged and emptied their friend’s entire fridge. With with goal in mind? Being able to fit an entire 25-pound bag of dog food inside. 

Their friend awoke the next morning to quite a surprise when they went to make breakfast. 

4. Getting A Divorce

What’s the worst thing you’ve ever done in your sleep? It probably wasn’t as bad as ending your marriage. 

One Muslim couple were ordered to separate after a particular sleepwalking incident. The couple had been having a number of arguments before bed. The husband in the relationship then continued the argument in his sleep! 

During this sleep-argument, the man repeatedly called for divorce, which religious leaders argued was grounds enough for their separation. 

5. A Midnight Drive 

Sleepwalking is generally harmless, but it can get dangerous depending on what activities the mind unconsciously decides to do. One of the most dangerous acts sleepwalkers can do is getting behind the wheel of a car.

And yet, it’s fairly common, with sleepwalkers causing potentially harmful car accidents.

One nurse in her twenties got behind the wheel in the middle of the night and began driving to work. Halfway there, she got into a fender bender and still didn’t wake up. When cops arrived, she was peeing in the intersection.

The next morning she had no recollection of anything that had happened. 

Crazy Sleepwalking Stories 

The brain can do wild things when we’re not fully conscious, and the above sleepwalking stories are just a few examples of such absurdity. 

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