Comments on: Can You Sleepwalk Into a Crime?

By: Cheyenne

Cheyenne — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 16:22:51 +0000

Once i went 2 sleep and woke up naked next 2 my dog. i was hard and i was all sweaty

By: escapenguin

escapenguin — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 03:08:58 +0000

My sister sleepwalks. When I lived in a townhouse with her and my mom, she would sleepwalk up and down two flights of stairs just fine. One example is when she wandered down into my room. I awoke to her fussing with a beanbag chair. I asked what she was doing, and she just looked right through me, and said she was looking to get ready for school. Asked where her books were. She thought it was her bookbag.

Typically I couldn't wake her, and would just lead her back to her room. Stress does funny things to people.

By: ted

ted — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 20:42:12 +0000

Kissing her on the lips is rape? I guess it depends which lips.

By: Hat

Hat — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 18:13:37 +0000

Does anyone else find it strange that a guy who crawled into bed with an underage girl has the same name as the guy who wrote "American Beauty"?

By: kip

kip — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 14:23:07 +0000

Its a kiss, move on.

By: d

Sat, 03 Jan 2009 09:00:08 +0000

not neat.
do you find it neat that he did it and got away with it?

it would make an important distinction how she was, as it only says she was under-age and also if she wanted him to at the time and then later regretted it. should be taken into consideration also.

there's under the legal limit and then there's paedophilia, important distinction also.

By: Jenny

Jenny — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 08:47:50 +0000

without even drinking one night, i slept at a friends, and woke up in her brothers bed
luckily, he wasnt home...

occasionally, i apparently get out of bed and yell at my sister, pass out on her bed for a while then go back to my room
on several occasions...
i could believe him just cause i know something like that could happen to me, but idk

By: just a guy

just a guy — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 07:48:13 +0000

@Manik -
"It wouldn’t be hard for me to imagine having some friends over, letting them crash in the guest room and me waking up next to them".

sounds like another case of waking up 'in the closet'. lol .

j/k

By: Anise

Anise — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 03:11:22 +0000

Certain medications absolutely can cause sleepwalking , especially some of the newer atypical antipsychotics (and yes, those are prescribed for lots of things besides being nuts. Since I take one, I do get to use the term "nuts"if I so choose.;) Remeron is particularly bad in this respect. Basically, these meds "unlock" movement centers in the brain that are normally locked during REM sleep. I had a lot of sleepwalking when I first started Seroquel and some of it was actually pretty dangerous (walking into walls and falling against tables), although it did NOT cause me to do anything like what this guy did, which does make me a tad bit suspicious of the story. Also, it's not going to hold water unless he can prove he was actually taking one of these meds at the time.

By: Arden

Arden — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 03:09:55 +0000

I agree with drunkenness being no excuse. And as for sleep walking, there are people that have actually tried to use that as an excuse for raping a girl. Which I think it total BS. You can do some crazy stuff while sleep walking but raping people? Cmon.

By: mother hubbard

mother hubbard — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 01:38:21 +0000

Gotta go with "Just a guy's" reasoning - drunken & s#$@-faced doesn't equal sleepwalking - he shouldn't be excused. I used to sleepwalk as a kid and it's God's truth that no memory exists for it, bizarre as it sounds. Used to scare the hell out of my mother when she discovered me wandering about the house and spied me wanting to pee on the lawn etc. But sleepwalking in kids isn't abnormal. They outgrow it. In Adults it is definitely pathologic or induced by sleep aids. Drunkeness is not an excuse.

By: manik

manik — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 00:56:59 +0000

@ seek & sw - Mike Birbiglia, he has rapid eye movement behavior disorder (RBD) You've got to be suspicious about peoples stories, but people get drunk and blackout all the time. I partake on occasion. Every once in a while I'll have too much, get in bed next to my girlfriend, and the next thing I know she's waking me up in some strange corner of the house. I've been waken up sitting tables, on the floor right next to the bed, on the cold kitchen tile with no pillow or blanket, or even in the closet. It wouldn't be hard for me to imagine having some friends over, letting them crash in the guest room and me waking up next to them instead of where I originally went to bed.

By: Geekazoid

Geekazoid — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 00:07:51 +0000

I forwarded a news link to neatorama editors a while ago (don't think it ever got posted), but there was a story about a woman that actually got up and emailed someone while she was asleep, the first recorded case of a human emailing and using the computer while sleepwalking. I'm sure many things are possible sleep walking. But it does make you wonder if someone that would do this didn't have such tendencies in the first place.

By: sw

sw — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 23:23:20 +0000

seekshelter - i know who you're talking about, but i don't remember his name either. he did a hillarious and sad bit on this american life earlier this year.

By: DOJ

DOJ — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 23:16:51 +0000

If, instead of kissing a girl, he had gotten in a car and run over some pedestrians, would the blackout excuse still work?

All I really see here is someone voluntarily taking a mind altering substance and then committed a crime.

By: liphttam1

liphttam1 — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 22:54:41 +0000

No he was just drunk. He fell asleep woke up. He thought he was In his house so he went upstairs to a bed. Kisses his "wife" goodnight and went to sleep.

By: Orjan Morjan

Orjan Morjan — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 22:41:23 +0000

PLEASE don't take your stories from the Daily Mail!

By: seekshelter

seekshelter — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 22:30:03 +0000

the name will come to me later... but there is a popular stand up that has that kinda problem. just with his regular sleeping... no drinking involved. apparently, he tried to jump out of a hotel window and lots of other stuff.. theres a name for it too.. thats escaping me as well..

By: LisaL

LisaL — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 22:22:53 +0000

Well, it does sound suspicious, but I've had a few of my own experiences when I was younger sleepwalking.
I'd go to bed and wake up in a completely different part of the house.
The last time it happened, I was over at my cousin's house spending the night. Went to bed on her bed next to her, woke up in the middle of the night sitting crosslegged on the floor wedged in between her dresser and something else.

By: Edward

Edward — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 22:15:12 +0000

No matter what happened this time, if he is a predator, it will happen again and he will be caught. If not, then it will not happen and will become the stuff of bad pub jokes.

By: just a guy

just a guy — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 21:51:42 +0000

I'm not so sure 'sleepwalking' is the same thing as 'stumbling around in a drunken blackout'. Granted, the concious mind doesn't retain memories of either activity.

By: TheDiversePurse

TheDiversePurse — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 21:29:31 +0000

I've had experiences where I've blacked out from drinking, but I don't suffer from sleepwalking so I'm on-the-fence on whether to believe his justification for this.

By: eni

eni — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 21:11:27 +0000

Oh gosh. Kissing a minor on the lips is sexual assault, these days? Guess that would make my parents repeat sex offenders.

Seriously though, regardless of whether this man is a liar or not, I personally know people who sleepwalk like this. One of my roommates has done many things while asleep, acting exactly as if she were awake. Once she came into our room, borrowed our milk, tried to give us a $20 for it, and ran back into our room an hour later completely baffled as to how our milk ended up in her room.

By: Vim

Vim — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 21:07:41 +0000

oh no...i can't believe they bought that reasoning...

By: eROKv

eROKv — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 20:33:40 +0000

"honestly!!! i was sleepwalking naked through your bedroom while you were out of town and i must've tripped on something and my d*ck fell into your wife!!! NO REALLY!!!! honest mistake"

By: violet

violet — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 20:20:09 +0000

As much as this story begs for skepticism, I have known some serious sleepwalkers, especially the black-out drunk variety.

I was once lying in bed when a friend of mine walked into the room, did several super dramatic Segal-style karate moves, pissed on a wall socket, then basically did a somersault onto the bed, where I barely missed being crushed as I rolled, stunt man-like, out of the way. He had absolutely no recollection of this.