Sleep Problems

Ever since I was a little girl I've had trouble sleeping. Not like in an insomniac kind of way, but in a deep, sound sleep kind of way.

I've always been plagued with nightmares, weird dreams, sleepwalking, and what I call my "episodes".

What happens is I have a deep, disturbing dream and then I appear to wake up, I either sit up or begin to talk, or often in the more recent years, I actually get up and go talk to someone, usually waking them up sine this happens after I go to sleep. I appear to be fully awake, but I say something outrageous, then I go back to bed and end up in a deep sleep.

Most of the time, I only have a very vague, if any, recollection of what happened. Usually, whoever it is I talked to will fill me in on the morning. Of course, my mother and most of my friends are pretty familiar with this by now, but I think it probably still freaks a few people out--or the ones who don't realize that I am asleep.

I started having these "episodes" in about 1995, or at least that's the earliest anyone can recall. Back then it was pretty rare, once or twice a year. Over the past ten years or so, they've escalated to about one a month.

There's no trigger that I know about, nothing that tends to cause them to happen. They just do. It's one of the oddities of Michelle, I guess.