sleepwalking
Does anyone else sleepwalk due to their grief, or have any other sleeping issues from it? For the last several years I've been sleepwalking when I am stressed and I realized it began very shortly after my mom died. Though I am not sure it is sleepwalking per se as I am always aware of it at the time and I remember it later....I'm just very confused and obviously still dreaming to a point when I do it.
What usually happens during an episode is I wake a few hours after I've gone to bed and I don't know where I am....I don't recognize my room as being my room. I normally get up and either stand there long enough to realize where I am, or sometimes I make it as far as the hallway and I wake up enough to understand and go back to bed. It freaks my husband out because his grandma died when she was sleepwalking and fell down stairs. I don't think I am in danger of that because like I said, I am semi aware of it when I am doing it, so it's not like I'd end up outside or near stairs and have no recollection of how I got there.
Since my grandma died two weeks ago I've been sleeping walking, or at least getting out of bed and standing there confused almost every night. I generally just sleep in a tshirt and each night when I do this I fumble around to find shorts or something to put on because in my dream I am someplace else (one night I dreamed I was at the funeral home for visitation) that apparently is not appropriate to be dressed in just a tshirt, lol. I mentioned it to my therapist a few months ago....since it began when my mom died and happens when I am stressed, he thought maybe I am hanging on to some guilt or something over her death, so I should work on letting go of any unresolved feelings.
But since my grandma just died I am obviously still going through the early grief stages, so my walking must not be completely related to unresolved issues since this is recent. I was just wondering if anyone else had seen their sleep affected by their loss and if there is any tricks or ways that you deal with it.
What usually happens during an episode is I wake a few hours after I've gone to bed and I don't know where I am....I don't recognize my room as being my room. I normally get up and either stand there long enough to realize where I am, or sometimes I make it as far as the hallway and I wake up enough to understand and go back to bed. It freaks my husband out because his grandma died when she was sleepwalking and fell down stairs. I don't think I am in danger of that because like I said, I am semi aware of it when I am doing it, so it's not like I'd end up outside or near stairs and have no recollection of how I got there.
Since my grandma died two weeks ago I've been sleeping walking, or at least getting out of bed and standing there confused almost every night. I generally just sleep in a tshirt and each night when I do this I fumble around to find shorts or something to put on because in my dream I am someplace else (one night I dreamed I was at the funeral home for visitation) that apparently is not appropriate to be dressed in just a tshirt, lol. I mentioned it to my therapist a few months ago....since it began when my mom died and happens when I am stressed, he thought maybe I am hanging on to some guilt or something over her death, so I should work on letting go of any unresolved feelings.
But since my grandma just died I am obviously still going through the early grief stages, so my walking must not be completely related to unresolved issues since this is recent. I was just wondering if anyone else had seen their sleep affected by their loss and if there is any tricks or ways that you deal with it.