If anyone has a baby, I feel this is what its like having a new born at your home for the first year. I slept HARD before I have ever had kids, but for some reason, that first year, I slept very lightly and would wake up to a cry.
I sleep walked with our first baby. I don't sleep walk normally and as far as I know this was the first only time period when I did. Apparently my wife would tell me to get the baby and I would do it in my sleep with absolutely no recollection after of having done so.
You were not sleep walking. You were fully awake. At the time you were fully conscious but as soon as you went to sleep you forgot about it. It has happened to me many times. Usually when I'm not getting enough sleep.
This is a semantic quibble as much as a substantive one. “Asleep” vs. “awake” isn’t really a binary distinction. Both sleepwalking (which isn’t a single well-defined thing) and the kind of awake-but-then-suffer-amnesia states you are talking about (can be caused by extreme tiredness, too much alcohol, dementia, etc.) fall somewhere in between full alertness and deep sleep.
I think sleepwalking _is_ a defined thing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleepwalking What Zaphar is describing is not true sleepwalking, it's just that he was awake such a short time that he didn't form memories about it. In much the same way that I can't remember how I walked to work this morning.
Oh totally. My wife seems immune to his stirrings on the baby monitor. Without fail, no matter the time of night, I will wake up even if he silently stands up in the crib. Yhe only time I sleep hard now is when someone else is watching him.
When I got old enough to go out places with my friends and come home later at night (past 11, for example) my dad said it took a couple years before he could fall asleep without hearing the garage door open, and he's a deep sleeper who's never had any issues sleeping anywhere.
We've joked he's going to miss his own funeral because he's slept in.
I don't have a child, but this happened after buying a house, and living alone. I went from dead to the world sleep, to hearing everything happening in the house. Even ten years later, I still sleep significantly lighter.
I struggled with sleeping when I moved to a new state years ago. I still am a little anxious when I sleep and I have my sleep regiment down to the minute in order to get a solid night's rest.
I think sleep has some innocence until you lose it and afterward it changes permanently. It has in my life so far.
I'm older than many here, I suspect. And I use modafinil and coffee. But if I'm tired enough, and I know that I have enough slack, I have no problem sleeping. Indeed, if it's quiet enough, I can still sleep for 12 hours or whatever.
It helped me. Although occasionally(such as last night), she will keep getting up, walking around my wife in bed, to check on me. Sweet but kept walking me up all night haha. Almost never happens though and my sleep is quite a bit better knowing she is around.
haha ... I have a similar story. One example, my mother-in-law was living with us at the time and she offered to take the baby for a night to give us a night's rest. Her room was downstairs, ours was upstairs. First time the baby woke up (as usual), my eyes popped open the moment her cries rang through the house, after about 20 seconds she hadn't stopped or otherwise sounded like she got picked up, I ran downstairs and had her in my arms before my mother-in-law even woke up (the bassinet was literally next to her bed).
Aside from that, before and after they've grown up, I'm a pretty heavy sleeper :)
