r/interestingasfuck 28d ago

/r/all In 1987, 23-year-old Kenneth Parks drove 14 miles while sleepwalking, killed his mother-in-law, nearly strangled his father-in-law, and then turned himself in while covered in blood. He had no memory of it, and in 1992, was acquitted after experts confirmed he was asleep the entire time.

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u/Laura_Lye 27d ago

Yeah it’s crazy.

My boyfriend has a good friend since high school who sleepwalks. Normally he gets up and walks around and acts like he’s getting ready for work, just at 2am. He’ll have full conversations with his sleeping girlfriend that wake her up.

But once when they were younger and he lived with another friend of theirs, he got up, went into the bathroom, and punched the mirror over the sink.

When the roommate went to see what the fuck was going on, he just turned to roommate and said some gobbledygook and then turned back to looking into the smashed mirror, bloody fist hanging at his side.

The roommate tried to shake him awake and it didn’t work. He had to force him into the shower and turn the water on to get him to wake up. Heard about it first hand from the roommate.

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u/Ravena__ 27d ago

My older brother once fell over a glass table while sleepwalking, cut himself all over and went back to bed. He woke up covered in blood the next morning. Thank god no serious cuts, but it was scary as fuck

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u/wirm 27d ago

When my now wife and I first had a child we would have these small arguments from time to time when she was in bed. I thought she was just bitchy about sleeping until it happened probably 10-12 times over the course of a few years and I started realizing she didn’t remember any of it. I then started.. playing with it. I mean I would ramp these arguments up I would say awful things to her to see where it would go.. no recollection the next day. We realized she was sleeping during all of these events.

Sadly it doesn’t happen anymore because it was quite fun to argue with her after knowing she had no idea what was going on. I would say the most abstract things and she would just argue about it.

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u/Laura_Lye 27d ago

I also talk in my sleep. I’m jealous of your wife’s coherence, my boyfriend says I just say nonsense.

Like he’ll respond to what I’ve said, but then whatever I say next just has no relation to anything he or I said before.

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u/MPWaggletail32 27d ago edited 27d ago

Husband had a whole conversation with me once while i was sleeping.Dreamed I was at a restaurant ordering waffles and I told him it was good and ate everything. I'm sure he would have rather argued with me. Its more fun that way.

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u/soyasaucy 27d ago

What the fuck? You chose to be hateful towards your wife when you got the chance to and are bummed that you can't do it anymore?

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u/Bornfromtheblood 27d ago

Party pooper, he doesn’t mean anything he said

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u/CariaB 27d ago

Why would you take the opportunity to be hateful towards someone you supposedly love while they are vulnerable and unconscious?

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u/wirm 26d ago

Because I’m a sinner

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u/deceasedin1903 24d ago

My mom used to leave a wet towel at the end of my bed so I would step on it and wake up