Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for March 06, 2020

any of you, “Cul de Sac” readers remember any episodes where you sleepwalked as a child?

There were a couple of incidents when I was about 11. My mother told me about them but I have no recollection.

I never slept-walked(?), but I used to talk in my sleep and my mom would record that and use it as a confession.

Somnambugrowlia.

Petey has progressed from that. Now, he sleep plays his oboe with his Tighty Whitey’s over his head!

Who says you can’t learn great facts from the comics? That Einstein, what a card!

I went to a boarding school. One morning I woke up with my jeans over my pajama bottoms. Apparently, there was a fire alarm in the middle of the night, and we all got out of bed, went out onto the athletic field and lined up, and when the fire department gave the all-clear we filed back inside. If it hadn’t been for the fact that all of the girls were talking about it, and the headmistress praised us all, I’d have figured the girls in my dorm were playing a trick on me.

lmao

Sleepwalking was one of the few weird things I never did when I was young. Did plenty of other stuff though, ;)

A number of times as a kid. Once, when we were visiting our grandparents, my parents were sleeping on the convertible bed in the living room and heard a doorknob rattling. They found me trying to get out the back door! My only recollection is them telling me about it the next day!

I’ve never sleepwalked, but my wife says I do a lot of other things while we’re sleeping…

Narcotrouseramblia? My brother would kill me if I told this but he apparently had Narcorelieveyourselfamblia since he once walked into the closet, “relieved himself” and went back to bed. I was awake and observed the whole thing. Luckily, we had separate closets!

Petey may be wrong about Einstein. But, then, I’m not an experienced somnambulist.

Alice is a little too enthusiastic (as usual)….

Yep, I woke in front of my dresser drawers with my clothes in neat little piles around me as I was having a nightmare about my new job as a grocery bagger and millions of people were yelling paper/plastic and I was trying to get them done as fast as I could.

During my first year in grad school, I did not get much sleep. One night, I was dreaming (but at the time, I thought it was really happening) that I was working in the lab, using a vacuum pump. I was trying desperately to turn the pump off (the off switch was half-way down the power cord) and I could not do it. The more I tried, the harder it was – until the off switch disappeared entirely. I awoke holding onto the power cord of my alarm clock, which was blaring. I never before nor ever after walked in my sleep.