Bedtime Adventures

Sleep can be a funny old thing.  Sometimes I'll drift off to the land of nod where I have pleasant dreams and wake up feeling refreshed.  Other times my mind goes to a darker place and I rise feeling less than perfect.  I dream every single night.  I also have a history of talking in my sleep, shouting in my sleep, screaming in my sleep and even sometimes getting up to do things in my sleep.  Sometimes I remember my nightly escapades whilst other times I remain oblivious.  It's the strangest thing when you wake yourself up with your own voice and realise you're in the middle of a sentence.  I've woken up with the strangest notions; one of the weirdest being the idea that if I don't find my tap shoe, which I believe is hidden in my tissue box, I'll fail my test.  I actually realised what I was doing halfway through pulling out wads of tissues, shook my head in confusion and then went back to sleep.  Very bizarre.  I know I've got up in the middle of the night convinced that I haven't taken off my make up, even though I have, gone searching for make up wipes and started to wash my face again.  When I did that I couldn't remember what I'd done until I saw the face wipes on the side and I suddenly had memories of the previous night.  I guess most of the time it's just harmless but I've scared myself in the past sitting bolt upright in bed and gasping for air.  I've also scared Mystical Roo.  He's heard whimperings from me as I have nightmares (probably about land dwelling sharks or something) and has said he's heard a terror in my voice that freaked him out.  The worst time was when I woke up the household screaming.  This was when we first moved to Australia and were all sharing a house.  I screamed at the top of my lungs that night and only realised what had happened when I woke to find myself curled up at the end of the bed and Mystical Roo standing by the light switch with a look of shock on his face.  Apparently I'd screamed twice and flung myself to the end of the bed.  I even woke Monster Noggin up who was on the other side of the house.  That was embarrassing.  And I still don't remember what caused my cries.  Perhaps memories of the pirate ship...But it's not just me who has these nighttime adventures.  Mystical Roo has also been known to talk in his sleep and take midnight strolls.  He's not quite as vocal as me but he has woken me up once or twice and in a sleepy state I've had a nonsensical conversation with Mystical Roo whilst he's been asleep.  I think he was upset once about my defence tactics in a game of Risk but I can't be sure.  I've caught him wandering around a few times and once I was woken up to find him fiddling with the drawers underneath our bed.  It scared the crap out of me.  I remember asking him what he was doing, to which he replied he was fixing the drawers.  Obviously.  Why wouldn't he be fixing the drawers at one o'clock in the morning.  The drawers weren't even broken.  I also caught him in our walk in wardrobe and on questioning him I discovered he was looking for the light switch.  I tried to explain that the light switch was next to the bedroom door and not in the wardrobe but my message didn't seem to be getting through.  In the end I went and flicked the switch myself to which I got a smug, told you the switch was in here.  Yes.  I wonder what would happen if Mystical Roo and I decided to start sleep walking at the same time as one another?  Without a conscious person to control the situation, who knows what crazy adventures we could get in to!