re: Sleepwalking/Fred

[Guest guest]

Hi Fred,

Thanks for your tip about the lights but

in Siobhan`s case she turns the lights

on in her sleep, in fact she turns every

light in the house on! She often falls

asleep with the bedroom light on (and

the radio) so I don`t see light having an

affect on whether she sleepwalks or

not.

It must be a great worry to be

sleepwalking with CMT. Did you know

that there can be a `habit` aspect to it?

When Siobhan was sleepwalking

before she was doing it at roughly the

same time each night and I was able to

cure it by waking her about half an

hour before her usual walking time and

this disturbed her pattern enough to

stop the sleepwalking for a long time.

It`s only recently she`s started again

but now there is no regular time so I

can`t do what I did before. I think it

may be stress related due to worrying

about school and I am trying a herbal

stress remedy. Its too early to tell if its

working but the signs are good as she

hasn`t walked at all for the past week.

I don`t know what your situation is but

I have heard that if you sleep with a

partner a good trick is to push the bed

against the wall and sleep on the

inside whereby you would disturb your

partner getting up and they can then

wake you and thus break the habit. I

don`t know if this would work as my

experience is that a sleepwalker is in a

very deep sleep and hard to wake!

I also don`t know if this would be very

practical with CMT!

Joyce.