The bed in my room faces the center of the room, with the headboard against one wall and the left edge of the bed a few feet away from a parallel wall. To the right of my bed is a nightstand with a lamp, clock, etc.
About a month ago, I fell asleep one night as I normally would, but woke up to an odd sight: the lamp shade of my lamp was on the ground by my bed, a couple of feet from the nightstand. This was pretty strange, IMO, as I thought it would have taken a conscious effort to remove the lampshade an put it on the floor.
I did not recall waking up in the middle of the night to any sound, or to any dream where I may have somehow hit upwards on the shade and knocked it off. This event befuddled me, but didn’t make for a whole lot of thought. Whatever. Other events were more important in my life, thankfully.
Last night, I went to bed around 11:00 PM, and woke up around 3:00 AM to piss/get water/take some advil (wisdom tooth surgery is a bitch). I went back to sleep, and woke up again around 6:00. I go to turn on my lamp, but I was greeted with an immediately chilling and familiar sight: no lamp shade. This time, however, it wasn’t next to my nightstand.
So I go searching for it: closets, desks, whatever. I looked for a few minutes, couldn’t find it, and looked on the left side of my bed, where there is 1-2 ft of space between the wall and my bed. And there it sits. Sitting there as though that’s where it would normally rest.
This time concerned me more so than the first, simply because a) it happened again, and b) I couldn’t have just knocked the shade off this time, it was obviously a conscious effort.
This story is really all quite unnecessary, but I felt like being epic about it. Any of you all suffer from sleep walking? Find any way to prevent it besides meds?
Note: I had been on vicodin two days before this latest episode, and painkillers are known to cause sleepwalking, uncommonly. But that doesn’t explain the first episode.
