I went to sleep at around 7 am after locking my bedroom door from the inside with a key I was completely alone in the house
When I woke up around noon I felt extremely cold and noticed that my blanket was gone
At first I thought it had fallen off the bed I turned on the light and searched the entire room but it was nowhere to be found I was still very sleepy so I went back to sleep
When I woke up again in the afternoon I unlocked the door myself and went to the living room and that is when I found my blanket there
The strange part is that my bedroom door was locked the entire time with the key still in the lock on my side Even if someone had another key they would not have been able to open the door from outside
The weather was extremely cold so it makes no sense that I would take my blanket to the living room and then go back to sleep without it I was alone and I have no history of sleepwalking at all
I genuinely have no explanation for what happened
"I have never sleepwalked" bro you don't know that. I got a camera for my apartment (to spy on my cats when I'm gone) and only because of it, learned that I sleepwalk pretty often. It's scary as hell to see.
It really is so scary! My mom was so stressed when I moved away for college bc she thought I’d just walk out of my dorm one day. Thankfully never been an issue and no partner has said the have seen me sleep walk, so hopefully I outgrew whatever it was that made me do it as a kid/teen
It was Concerta for me lol
I used to sleepwalk when I was on Concerta too. Woke up in my dorm one morning to chicken wings wrapped in tinfoil inside the microwave, glad I apparently couldn’t/didn’t turn it on because that could have been a disaster!
That stuff made me sleep drive, 24 miles to my mom's house, couple times a week!!! I was so lucky nothing happened to me or my son!!! I stopped taking it as soon as we realized what caused the problem!!!
When I was a little kid I was on a medication that caused me to get up and do things I had not recollection of until my parents told me. One time I got up went downstairs walked up to the tv in the den where my parent were sitting and said “oh good it’s off”. Then turned around and went back upstairs to bed. Literally no idea whatsoever it happened. Did things like that until I had my medication changed.
I used to do this as a kid too (without any medication). Usually I sat with my parents who were watching tv, drained whatever drink my mom was having and went back to bed. Never remembered a thing.
I was the same hahaha my mom said I’d walk in smiling and very peppy and want to watch tv and eat a snack 😂
That's probably better than what I did around age three to five. I'd just sleepwalk into my parents room and then stand silently and very still next to their bed, staring at them.
Stooooop 😭😂😂
My two greatest hits from sleepwalking in childhood (same ages, about 3-5):
Parents fell asleep watching TV in their bedroom - probably they were watching a movie on Beta. Since this was the ‘80s, my mom woke up some time later to me sitting on the end of their bed staring at the TV, which was just snow/static. Terrifying.
Another time she woke up to me pulling up my nightgown and crouching to pee in a big wicker basket they had on the floor of their room that held magazines.
Same as a kid and teen I did crazy stuff sleep walking. I once put a CD cover in the toaster and turned it on. Luckily it didn't melt enough to catch fire but ruined the toaster!
How did the cd cover taste tho?
Omg! That’s absolutely terrifying!
HOLY SHIT!!
That made you sleepwalk or that made you stop ?
Made me sleepwalk like crazy, I actually pushed my sister off the top bunk of her bunk bed after walking all the way to her room from mine and just went to sleep.
Singular for my son, as well as mood swings. Back to normal once he stopped taking it
We actually think it’s me starting to take ADHD meds that made me stop, funnily enough! I think unmedicated my brain was just never really full shutting off to go into sleep mode
Omg I started sleepwalking some months ago and started Concerta last year! This explains is! Had no idea this was a possibility!
When I was a little kid I tried to sleep walk to school on saturday morning. My neighbor was washing his car and brought me home. I woke up to everyone asking me about it like I won the superbowl or something lmao. Like idk I was asleep!
Ugh - i used to be worried that my son would sleepwalk out of the house and end up off the cliff in back or the middle of the busy street out front. And then it fucking happened and it was terrifying.
He was ~11 and bolted out of our front door. We heard him and the kwikset chime from the deadbolt and got behind him but still.... anxiety
I once woke up in front of the open fridge. I was about 12 back then...
Yep, when my husband was a child he sleepwalked outside and was standing near the edge of the water. My MIL locked the door ever since.
My husband had car keys in hand and went out the front door. Luckily it was winter and the cold air woke him up before he could make it to the car.
My sister sleepwalks when she is super stressed. But what she does is weird. She gets ready. She takes a shower in her sleep. She does her hair. She does her makeup. She gets dressed. My mom was super worried about her ever living alone because of it. Fortunately, it’s tapered off as she’s gotten older.
I used to do this in high school!! Mostly when it was exam season. I'd wake up halfway through a shower and realize it was 3am.
I did this like a month ago. I’d just gotten out of the shower and realized it was 2:15 am, worst part was I’d already taken my adderall. I thought about trying to make myself throw it up, but it was too late. That was a looong day.
I did this too once. Really creepy to wake up in the shower
But how she's not waking up? And how's the movements, could you understand she is actually sleeping if you would see her?
I’ve never seen her do it because I was sleeping. But my mom is a light sleeper so she would hear my sister moving around. She would catch her most of the time and guide her back to bed. The times my mom didn’t catch my sister, she would wake up and be confused because she was dressed in mismatched clothes and with weird makeup on and a wet towel on her floor. She always been an insanely deep sleeper. I couldn’t do it, but apparently she can.
Its scary, and weird. I had this weird as fuck dream where i went outside in the middle of the night and was wandering around back yard in late teens (think i was 19ish). Next day my dad was like "the fuck were you doing outside at 1am". "Wtf... That wasnt a dream?!". Turns out that i unlocked two separate doors in my sleep and was just wandering around our back yard. Dad somehow guided me back inside and i just wandered back to bed. Pretty sure i didnt even have shoes on. 🤣
My brother would sleepwalk occasionally when I was a kid. One time he picked me up, walked to the kitchen and stopped in front of the sink, holding me over it. Then after standing there, a bit he walks back to our room, puts me back, and he went back to bed.
Used to sleepwalk as a teenager. Multiple times I would wake up in the morning and my dad would tell me he found me either walking downstairs or downstairs already and have to walk me back to bed. We have really steep stairs too so it's a good job I never fell and broke my neck.
I would also never remember anything about it. Could still be happening now and I wouldn't know.
I fell down the stairs so many times sleep walking as a kid (even though we had a baby gate until I was about 13), my parents started stacking bean bag chairs to the ceiling at the top of the steps every night. After that I'd usually just wake up curled up in the bath tub instead of confused and sore at the bottom of the steps.
Luckily the worst that ever happened falling down the stairs was a sprained ankle.
You never know that. That’s true! Few years ago, my previous roommate had a friend that was over after a party. During the night, while i was sleeping, she entered my room and looked possessed. She was being weird and ended up leaving my room. She was confronted about that in the morning. Turns out she didn’t know a thing about it and was in disbelief that she even did that. She was shocked and for her, it all clicked into place. She understood that she was sleepwalking.
My wife said this too when we were dating. Then we moved in together and one random ass night at like 230am she’s trying to walk out of our 3rd story apartment lol
Also certain meds can make you randomly start sleep walking, even if you never did previously. Antipsychotics for one, and I've heard stories of Ambien doing similar shit
Ambien made me sleep eat. I woke up one night eating an entire bunch of bananas sitting on my kitchen counter in the middle of the night.
At least my choice was healthy…?
My wife had to film me for me to believe it. Peed in the trashcan twice.
My best mate would often sleep walk when he spent the night, it was so weird and he would have absolutely no recollection of it the next morning, it's crazy to see in person.
It's almost like trying to put a drunk person to bed when they've had too much lol
"Let's see how the cats are d- OH MY GOD THATS ME"
I used to sleepwalk from the age of 6-16, including opening up doors and going outside, where I’d wake up freezing in a thin nightgown in the backyard.
Thankfully I haven’t done it in forever (to my knowledge), but it’s freaky to experience.
This. You don't know what you do in your sleep until someone tells you or records it. I knew someone whose son recorded her eating all the snacks because she thought he did it, but she was doing it in her sleep.
The brain is a weird thing.
Check your carbon monoxide detectors mate, I’ve heard this before
Or seizures. Yes you can have them in your sleep. No they don't all look like the movies: they can present in all kinds of ways, some just make you pull weird faces & walk around.
editing to include a video of what some seizures can look like
Then there’s absent seizures. Looks like you’re zoning out. No shaking, just staring
My toddler has these and just got diagnosed last month. It was super subtle and the pediatrician was shocked the referral turned into anything
How did you notice? I feel like toddlers look off into space sometimes in general (mine does... now I'm worried)
The staring spells started to get longer and you couldn’t get him to snap out of it. He would also stop what he was doing with his hands suddenly and in the middle of play. What I will say is that absence seizures in toddlers are very rare, so it’s statistically likely that it’s just behavioral for your kiddo. But if you are concerned, take a video of staring spells to your pediatrician and ask if you should be referred for a neuro consultation
One of my sons had absence seizures and his pediatrician said they weren’t rare and most kids grow out of them, which my son eventually did.
Our neurologist said they are rare in toddlers my sons age
My neurologist said I don’t have a son, so why do I keep pestering him about absence seizures.
Maybe it's the absence of a son that's causing the seizures.
I'm also here for the answer
Why isn’t anyone questioning why OP locked himself inside his own bedroom with a key?
To stop the blanket getting out.
Turns out it's not very effective.
Blankets slide right under doors.
I would assume room mates
Anxiety can make you do weird things
this is the actual mystery here
I responded above :)
Mine would be something like walking with my family at the store and then I would just stop mid aisle, arms at my sides completely zoned out. Nothing would make me snap out of it. Or I would be actively playing/ running around and then have the exact same reaction. So dead in my tracks, arms akimbo, zoned out. Started out as only a few seconds and eventually progressed to entire minutes I would be out. My last one was 15+ mins during school.
I have seizures from a TBI and it took them a loooong time to figure out what put me into Windows 95 mode. I’m happy to hear this from someone who was the guinea pig on a rollercoaster for 3 years.
Happened after my kid turned 13. Terrifying. No one believed us. So glad yall got diagnosed early to address it head on!
My 4 year old was diagnosed with a secure disorder this past year when she was 3. My daughter just gets glassy-eyed and goes limp. We had no idea seizures could look like that.
My son had these when he was younger. Even our family doctor had no clue what it was. I saw it on TikTok, told the doctor, she made us an appointment with a neurologist and yep, this was it. He is 10 now and has outgrown it and been medication free for 2 years.
My wife had one of these days after giving birth to one of our children She wasn’t very well and nobody could figure out what was wrong with her and then all of a sudden she started acting weird just staring straight through me, and started rambling something about an egg cup. I can honestly say I have never been more scared in my life
Been getting these for years, since elementary school. Didn’t know what it was until about 3 years ago
My mom used to have those. She would be talking and then zone off into space.
My mom gets these and they are eerily creepy. Cuz they don't respond to you at all and are looking straight through you
As someone who has seizures, holy crap theres a lot of types ive had. theres even ones where youre conscious and aware of whats happening around you but your senses are completely out of whack. Like thin stuff feeling like youre holding a freaking branch, or things feel faster than it actually is. Loads more
Yeah I get them too, when I explained them to my regular doctor even they were like um wtf. But then the neurologist said it sounded totally on par with what he'd seen in others too.
Mine sometimes are like, I get a sudden hot flash, I pour sweat, start freaking out like I'm doomed & striping my clothes off (because it's so damn hot and I'm not sure what else to do - but only have ever done this inside not in public lol), and the most classic telltale sign is I get up & go to pace around in a panic but I can only walk in one direction (like in a circle) no matter how hard I try, and my jaw gets tight (so sometimes if I try to talk, I might bite my tongue, but not hard enough to bite it off like in the myths). All this happens either totally consciously, or in a sensation of like missing some seconds/steps in between but the brain still tries its best to blend it together.
Other times it's so damn subtle, it feels like I've just stepped off an elevator just before it finished landing & I get a "whoosh" sensation & kinda zone out for just a few seconds.
Brains are weird!
I also have two dreams that i feel these with. One being one of those spacial confusion mazes, feeling i cant figure a way out. The other being i was abducted by the egg aliens in jimmy neutron
Thank you so much for sharing this. If I saw a couple of these examples in public, it’s very possible I would have dismissed them as somebody having a more dangerous kind of mental episode or being drug-related. I’m a little ashamed that I would have jumped to either of those conclusions before considering seizure as a possibility but I was quite literally more ignorant before watching this video, so again, thank you.
I hope as many people watch this as possible.
Wait, my kids do this occasionally, they'll wake up in the middle of the night and come out making weird faces and mumbling. I thought it was just sleep walking. Is there a way to determine if its sleepwalking or seizures?
If possible maybe get it on video to show to healthcare professionals
It could be either honestly: film it and ask your doctor.
I edited my previous comment to include a link of what it might look like in some people but this isn't an exhaustive list of representations.
yep. when i was about 6, my brothers and i slept over at my dad’s apartment. when i woke up in the morning, we couldn’t find him anywhere. then after searching for about an hour, we found him outside with his car door open, laying on the ground in the snow with his pants halfway off. he didn’t remember any of it. eventually an ambulance came and paramedics took him to the hospital. we were told it was a seizure. it was really scary. a couple years later he had a grand mal seizure right in front of us, too. i was about 8 at the time and promised him i'd call him every night to make sure he was ok. i’ll never forget that day. :(
A friend of my uncle got one at the gym. The only sign was that he did squats instead of the coach's exercises.
Imagine how confusing that was for the coach 😭
The guy calmly shuffling out into traffic is scary shit. He looks way too lucid. I've only seen the extremely obvious tonic-clonic types where people actually fall to the ground and gasp for air
Also there's the postictal state, the recovery period after a seizure. It can last several hours, cause you to do strange things and it's super common to not be able to retain any memory of it. Kind of like blacking out from drinking.
I've had several grand mal seizures, there's a 3-6 hour period after each one of them where my memory is just blank. During my first seizure an ambulance was called for me, I didn't come to full consciousness until I had already been in the ER for 2 hours. On the way there in the ambulance I was postictal and l, apparently, I was trying to rip out my IV line and was throwing punches at the EMTs. I actually had about 2 seconds of memory of that come to me several years later of me yelling "NO!" and ripping a blanket off of myself.
I was a 130 pound 16 year old with severe social anxiety at the time, especially strange behavior from me.
my daughter had a friend in theater while in hs. during our musical, beauty and the beast, we noticed at least 2 seizures on stage, knowing the packed auditorium had zero idea. she sadly lost her life to a grand mal a year later, she was only 19. 😭
I'd guess simple sleep walking over seizures.. OP might want to do a whole sleep study lol
The most likely explanation is sleepwalking. Not carbon monoxide poisoning, not seizures, not blanket-stealing extra-terrestrials, just plain old sleepwalking. It's very common and a lot of people don't know they do it.
No need to freak OP out.
Yeah, when someone sleepwalks, they may go back to bed, and have no clue something happened when they actually wake up.
I sleepwalk sometimes, have since I was a kid. And most of the time I wander around, then go back to bed. I usually only know it happens that way if someone else sees it, but occasionally I'll carry a blanket or pillow with me and leave it somewhere. I also open and shut doors sometimes (never locked ones as far as I know) and have changed pajamas in my sleep.
I once slept walked as a child and woke up just inside the house sleeping under the rug we used to wipe our feet like it was a blanket.
Well, the chances you are right are greater than 99.9%, but checking your carbon monoxide detectors won't hurt
No check for the thing that can kill you first then when that isn't it then move on to "oh I must sleep walk whoopsy doopsy".
Ok but it could be carbon monoxide poisoning. There's a very famous reddit post of a guy who kept finding sticky notes all over his apartment. He was suspicious that his landlord was doing it. Until someone told him to get checked for poisoning. That's what it was. He was leaving himself notes, but didn't remember writing the notes.
I only read the title and guessed top comment would be this lol
Ok back up to actually look at the post
Let’s not rule out sleepwalking. I had this stuff happen all of the time during stressful periods where I’d sleepwalk and move things around.
Or sleepwalking
Idk man, OP probably took some shrooms and had a bad trip
How come? I don't understand? Co poisoning makes you sleep walk?
Forgetfulness. Forgetful to the point of paranoia. In a post from a while back the OP was really anxious and paranoid about ‘his landlord’ breaking into his home and moving things. Leaving sticky notes. Turns out all of that stuff was done by the OP. there was a leak/buildup of CO which could’ve killed him.
Not saying this is 100% a CO poisoning case.
TLDR: CO poisoning causes a lot of memory and coordination issues and drowsiness. This has been documented before from a similar post. > https://www.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/s/rmCYE2f58q
Thanks man, thats terrifying.
I'm Just gonna go check mine, just in case lol.
Definitely do. Better safe than sorry.
It's always carbon monoxide
Classic reddit post
You're sleeping in the daytime, which tells me your circadian rhythm is outside the typical "normal". Whether that's your usual thing or work related, it can still scramble some of your brain patterns. If you have a sleep disorder or are generally sleep deprived because of it, it can make you more susceptible to sleepwalking, psychosis, memory issues, etc. So odds are, you did it while half asleep or fully asleep and straight up forgot.
Also your blanket is so thin.. That's all you sleep with?? You good?? Locking your bedroom door is a bit weird too, but clearly someone's stolen all your other normal blankets in the past so it's a reasonable precaution.
Dude, most of the year, that would be too much blanket for me except in the wee hours of the morning.
I sleep in a sweater and under two duvets for 9 months out of the year. Give me back my temperature, thief.
You sleepwalked most likely. Use Occam's razor here and that is the simplest explanation available.
I'd say not taking the blanket to the bedroom is more likely.
This was my first thought...if you woke up cold chances are you didn't go to bed with the blanket in the first place.
Yeah… when drunk / high you feel pretty warm and not very organized. maybe used the blanket on the couch, went to bed without it and then the rest happened
Likely due to lack of sleep. Why 7am?
It's extremely cold but you use a throw instead of a duvet?
You're sleepwalking.
Obligatory "check your CO detector"
Why do you lock your bedroom door with a key at night if you are alone?
Be glad you don't understand. Some people have anxiety or bad history.
Whatever you need to make it through your day.
You know, I was ready to pile-on about this, but you’re absolutely right. Thanks for the mental speed bump.
Kudos for your honesty
Kudos for your willingness to think twice and change your mind. That takes a kind of wholesome humility that most people lack.
i lock my bedroom door. i live alone and am alone but it makes me feel safer. if someone broke in and attempted to breach the bedroom, I would hear that and have a chance to defend myself.
I'm the same when my husband is away. I lock the bedroom door with my daughter sleeping with me and the dog, so that if anyone broke in it would give me that few seconds of warning to wake up and be alert. I don't even live in an unsafe neighborhood but I also have seen enough crime tv to know that you've got to give yourself any little advantage when you're a woman on your own!
Oh my god I was thinking im the only one to do it. Do you sleep with a pants too? Because I do and if I have to run away or fight, im not pantless
I do the opposite, I oil my nude body from head to toe before bed so my potential home invaders freeze in a moment of glistening dangle shock before they get suplexed into the nether realm.
If you’re piled enough, you’ll slip right out of their hands
Exactly! Good luck catching this lubed up manpig in his birthday suit you nefarious uninvited guests!
Of course! And solid slippers beside me for escaping a fire, a charged phone always, and a sizable folding knife in the drawer beside a small flashlight. You've got to be prepared even when asleep!
It all seems very logical and cautious. I used to sleep buck naked before the dogs joined me. Every now and then I'd think about the potential of having to face my neighbors in the nude, but never at the moments I undressed for bed, so go figure. I don't even lock the front door most nights, even though we get occasional prowlers, and I've seen people rummaging through the bins. It'd take a special kinda psycho to perpetuate a home invasion, so it gives me some hope I'll be okay, but with my luck I won't.
Ya maybe you could put in some sorta routine to lock it if you care to (I know ur dogs probably help). I know this is a little gruesome so trigger for robbery/murder. IDK HOW TO BLOCK IT SO STOP READING NOW. Just a few weeks ago I was home alone for thanksgiving. Literally a mile up from where I live someone left the psych ward against medical advice (they said they “broke out”). Beat up some guy on the road to where he had to be hospitalized, then walked to a woman’s house up the road, broke in and killed her. Sometimes all it takes is a bad night and the perfect opportunity. I used to get sleep paralysis as a kid and see figures in the hallway so I’m very very weird about closing/locking the door.. and about opportunists.. but I do feel like my animals help me feel safer as well.
My husband and I always sleep with our bedroom door open (cats), but when he travels for work and I’m alone with our daughter, fuck those cats! I lock the basement door (it leads to the garage which is a point of egress) and the bedroom door, set the alarm, and hunker down with my child like we’re in a zombie apocalypse.
I also lived alone for a while and did this! I even did it when I lived in a house with 4 other family members. it made me feel safer. I have really bad anxiety and someone breaking into my home is one of my worst fears :(
Glad someone else thought that was weird af. I have a lock on my bedroom door, but one of those that u can open with a butter knife
Safety, I don’t do it but also don’t think it’s weird at all.
Who has a key for their bedroom door that lives alone and not in a 1786 Victorian painted lady with original hardware?
People (especially women) who have landlords, or exes - as well as those that live in high crime areas
High crime isn't even necessary tbh, happens everywhere
The take-away here is always; there is no crime without opportunity
OP is Marie Antoinette
The type of lock described is very old.
The math isn’t mathing here.
I do this also, because I live in the woods. I get a little paranoid I guess. Its very dark out here!!
I have always locked my bedroom door at night, unless I live somewhere I cannot.
I am very afraid of what goes bump in the night.(my crackhead neighbors)
I personally have insane anxiety about locked doors. In my first apartment, I had gotten moved in and given the keys by the maintenance department (just two regular guys) and was living there for 5 days already. That night around 11:30pm the building manager dressed in all black, unlocked my door and just walked in. Apparently he thought the unit was still vacant and thought I was moving in that next Monday. 10 months or so later, I wake up in the middle of the night to my door wide open. I started leaving a chair propped under the door handle for the rest of my time in that building.
Ever since then, I like to keep some empty cans by the door to make noise if the door opens.
I lock my bedroom door when I sleep or even shower.
Also some places in Europe lock their bedroom doors via a key
Prolly just sleepwalking. I do it a lot
Sounds like you're sleepwalking or you need to check your carbon monoxide.
Congratulations you are now a sleepwalker.
You left your blanket in the other room
Check your carbon monoxide levels lol
Man. Check your place for carbon monoxide. Don’t fool around and not do it. Can get a tester at your local retail store for cheap.
Sleepwalking seems to be the only logical conclusion.. perhaps? 🤔
It's obviously a blanket stealing ghost. C'mon now guys
The “key” thing to the bedroom. Can someone kindly explain? I’ve seen exterior doors with the “key on the inside” thing, and thought “fire hazard, but OK,” but people have bedroom doors that are like that, too? Is every door in the houses like these “key” doors? What happened to just normal twist/toggle locks for all non-exterior doors?
You didn’t take your blanket to bed
Is it possible, because you were very tired, that you never brought the blanket to your room in the first place?
Nobody knows whether they’re sleepwalking or not.
Get a camera or 2. Install em in your home. Perform a experiment. It really could be some sleepwalking shit
https://preview.redd.it/vl6kfe2aai8g1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8a5264b99786f68250d3df1c6fdf3d8a686627c0
My girlfriend sleepwalks and gets up to all kinds of things. Walks around, comes and sees what I'm doing, eats, brushes her teeth, watches TV/YouTube, scrolls insta, and even online shops or orders food lol.
You might be sleep walking dawg.
That’s insane.
We're pretty sure it's a medication side effect, but most of the time it's just goofy as hell. Definitely some interesting conversations I've had with sleep walking her!
I slept walked recently. I used to as a child apparently but stopped about age 5 or 6. It was really fucking scary. My partner woke me up sitting at the kitchen table. And I was so confused. I have some vivid dreams the last few months. One includes the neighbour and I’m paranoid that it actually happened now. Scary shit.
Listen.. there are NO ghost or anything like that, that will take youre blanket :P.
It is you, it must be you. You just forgot it maybe.
Yeah idk camera in the room and check carbon monoxide detectors
you didn’t go to sleep with your blanket in the first place
I wanna know why the door is locked....
I would really consider checking the carbon monoxide.. or with a doctor. You seem to be forgetting things thats the only explanation.
I had something similar happen over a decade ago, I was sleeping on the couch in the living room and I woke up without my blanket too. Then I vaguely remembered my dream where I got up and put it behind the bookcase for some reason, I went to look and there it was. I used to sleepwalk and do weird things sometimes when I was younger, but I can't remember the last time it happened
I am a sleepwalker. A key in a lock will not deter me. I have driven across town while asleep, so we have some pretty extreme rules in place to keep my unconscious brain out of the loop. My husband is the one who locks up the doors each night and does a different combination of high locks and low locks so that I can’t just undo them. He also keeps my car keys in his bedside table so that he will wake up if I try to get them. If you live alone, I highly suggest installing a camera inside to find out if you’re sleepwalking.
I agree with sleepwalking. I used to do it, I don’t do that anymore as far as I know lol
Crazy it's folded into a plague doctor mask
It does sound like a sleep walk. My ex started a new medication (don’t remember what), and ended up sleepwalking twice. The first time she walked into the living room, sat down on the sofa, and just sat there with her eyes wide open. She had a semblance of a conversation with me. Had no idea it happened in the morning.
I do all kinds of weird shit in my sleep between or after overnights. I’ve woken up in my living room fully dressed and ready to leave for work like five hours early with no memory of how I ended up there.
Everyone arguing about sleepwalking vs. carbon monoxide and I’m thinking “well are you absolutely sure you took the blanket with you?”
You don't have to have a history of sleepwalking to start sleepwalking. Within the last year, my wife has started doing it when she has to pee. She has tried to pee: outside, in the dogs water bowl, in the trashcan... just random ass places. The funniest part is she is kind of a prude when it comes to nudity, which makes it funnier for me.
Can I please just ask, why are you locking yourself in your bedroom at night? Especially if the flat is locked up anyway?
The blanket looks low key like crows head though :P
Either you were so sleepy you forgot what you did or maybe just discovered that you sleep walk
Check for CO2 leaks in your home
Do you have a major stresser in your life that’s new? I started sleepwalking in boot camp and oddly enough would fold my blanket up and stuff it random places. Almost got kicked out for it, lol. Got sent to medical over it and they wanted to know if I was making it up just to get out of boot camp, or if it was real, they calked it up to stress. It only lasted a few weeks, but I woke up to freezing cold in Chicago winters to the person on watch ‘your blanket is over there moron.’
It happened to me once. I woke up because I felt cold and couldn't find my blanket. After a thorough search, I found it under the table in the kitchen. Later, on other occasions, my relatives noticed me sleepwalking
I was doubtful of this story till I saw the blanket pic. Irrefutable I say!!!
I had a strikingly similar experience. So similar that it unsettles me a little.
A couple years ago, a random night. I wake up in the middle of the night cold. I realize my blanket is gone.
I dont want to turn on the bright light in my room as I want to sleep. I try to find blanket by touch around the bed and on the sides. Nothing.
Decided to try to go to sleep. Awoke a little later. Still cold, still no blanket. Decided I got no other choice but to turn on the light. So I did. It took a while for my eyes to adjust to the brightness. After they adjusted, I look around, on the bed, behind, by the sides. Nothing.
In my mind I'm like wtf.
It was then I thought to look further. I look up and I see the blanket dropped in the exact opposite corner of my room.
Got up, stood over it looking at it with a dim sleepy mind confused. Picked it up and went back to sleep.
Still dont know how it happened. Some suggested it was a dream, but I'm sure it wasn't. Never had any record of sleepwalking, only some rare sleeptalking.
It really weirded me out how similar the stories are
People lock their bedroom for an extra layer of protection.
Sleepwalking explains this and it makes the most sense
OP, do you take Ambien or other sleep meds? Those can have you in a dream state walking around your house.
Your blanket doesn’t have legs…
"At first I thought it had fallen off the bed I turned on the light and searched the entire room but it was nowhere to be found I was still very sleepy so I went back to sleep" If you were warm enough to go back to sleep in this situation then you were warm enough o go to sleep without your blanket initially and simply forgot.
Sounds like you probably sleepwalked. When the weather is either too cold or too hot I tend to sleepwalk a lot. One night I almost left my house while sleepwalking…
Sorry i had the spare key so i used it to steal your blanket i was cold too
Time to check CARBON MONOXIDE
This has definite sleep walk vibes.
Is the place you found your blanket located between your bedroom and bathroom?
Getting up in the night to pee is such an automated action as an adult that you can so easily do it without remembering, and I don't know about others but if I have a blanket or a bulky clothing item like an oodie on I will just shed it onto the nearest surface on my way there rather than deal with the logistics of it while peeing. Often in my mostly asleep pee-mission state I will forget to pick it back up on my way back to bed, as when the pee feeling has been rectified my body defaults to the next obvious feeling, which is usualy needing to carry on sleeping. Feeling cold doesnt happen until AFTER I have clambered back into my bed, which is so typical...
I was goofing around in my bedroom dancing by myself. Room was a typical boys bedroom, door was closed. I turned around and my glasses flew off. I looked everywhere for them. Moved my furniture, desk, blankets etc. I even took off the vent covers. Nothing. When I moved and the room was empty. No glasses! Maybe they went to the Forth Dimension?
Why are you locking yourself in your room with a key? What is happening in your house? I’d say you’re sleepwalking brought on by mental fatigue from whatever you’re protecting yourself from.
Time for cameras
Why do you lock yourself in your bedroom?
Everyone should check their Carbon Monoxide detectors and other devices throughout the year- every year… to guard against any potential hazards that could occur if they aren’t operating properly.
I don't get why you'd lock your bedroom door.
Nobody suggesting a carbon monoxide alarm yet?
Who uses an actual key to a lock INSIDE the bedroom? Even it is a shared living space setup, the key would be used on the external side, not the internal?
Let’s talk more about locking the door? You live alone? You locked the bedroom door? This lock has key inserts on both sides?