Sleepwalking in Utah.

There are not any big stories for Utah just a bunch of little gems.

-Woke up one morning with all the sheets and blankets from my bed folded and stacked nicely on my bed.

- found myself wandering my room on occasion no purpose known...usually I realize I am up just tell myself to get back in bed.

- I use to have a curio cabinet in my room woke up and the door was open. I do not remember the details anymore but in my dream I was looking for something.

- When I was really stressed with school, surgery and other stuff... Monica would hear me talking night after night and she would come in and see how I was doing and I would get mad at her for talking to me. I usually would try to tell her I was awake and not talking in my sleep. I finally asked her to ignore me because it only stressed me out.

- I sleep in clothes that I would consider immodest for public...In my dreams I start to realize what I am wearing and become uncomfortable...I use to just pull the blankets up...lately I have woken up in modest shirts I did not got to bed wearing.

Oh how I wish I could remember all the odd things I have done. I have been sitting up in bed a lot lately in my sleep...until recently i changed pillows...I wonder if comfort has something to do with it.

So apparently it is not sleepwalking I am doing because I am aware that I am walking. Whereas sleepwalkers do not know they sleepwalk. One may say I am lucid dreaming because I can talk myself back to bed...but I don't really think I control my thoughts. I don't know what it is but I hope it has provided you with a little entertainment.

The fun continued into the college years!

In 2003 I became a Certified Nurses Assistant (CNA). At that time Amber had moved back home and instead of making Jeff share a room again the girls shared a room. It was fun I loved it. We all have talked in our sleep at some point in time and gotten caught by each other. I remember Amber and I trying to keep Monica talking when she talked in her sleep. Whenever I talked in my sleep I would get embarrassed that I was talking and become defensive saying I am awake I do not know what you are talking about but really I was still asleep or woke up and new I was caught.

So back to my new position as a nurses assistant. Once I started working the sleep walking started as well. For awhile I just heard call lights in my sleep and had to fight the urge to get out of bed and answer the call light. Then it happened...I woke up one morning and there were no sheets on my bed. They were there when I went to bed. After looking around I found a wad of sheets and blankets. Let me explain why I found then in a wad. When I am at work and taking the sheets off a hospital bed I would pull the corners off the bed and wad the sheets together and toss them in the laundry. So in my sleep I stripped the bed of linen.

Oh it gets better. I did not put those sheets back on my bed properly because at the time my bed was on the floor tucked behind Monica's and Amber and it was just a hassel. So a night or two later I found myself working again. This time I was dreaming that the charge nurse (head nurse) had given me an order to put a warm blanket on a patient. (Warm blanket is a heated blanket when you apply them to patients you want to put them next to the skin and put the other blanket back on top to seal in the warmth). So being the good CNA i was I climbed out of bed and prepared to put the blanket on the patient. So here I am standing over the patients bed. As I stand there I start realizing the patient is Monica. So I climb back in bed knowing I this is just a dream. Well the charge nurse got really mad at me at this point so I climbed out of bed again. As I stand next to Monica's bed I start to tell myself the trouble that will come if I touch her. In order to put this blanket on her in the process described above she is bound to wake up and then she will laugh at me because I am sleep walking. Likely she will wake up Amber and they will both laugh at me. I climbed back in bed. I think I got up a time or two more but never actually put the blanket on her. Maybe I stood up to the nurse, who knows.

This last one I did not remember doing until the next day Amber asked me about something related to it. Amber and I were hanging out in our room and she asked why everything from under her bed was sitting on the floor between our beds. Once she asked that it all came flooding into my memory. I said "Funny you should ask, last night when you were in your hospital bed you asked that I lower the head of your bed, in order to do that I had to move all this stuff for it to go down." I then remembered how weird it was that all that stuff would be stored under a hospital bed. My bed was on the floor and hers was not so I could see under it.

I am sure I did more during this time in my life but those are the ones I remember well. From then on I told Amber and Monica if they every woke up to me moving them "not to worry I was just changing their brief."

This is me hard at work at Banner Baywood Medical Center. The start of my Orthopaedic career.