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My Boyfriend's Sleep Walking Has Returned

by Becca
(California)

My boyfriend has slept walk and talked throughout his entire life, (his family has many stories). Recently he started the college fire academy and his episodes have returned, but in a way to frighten us.


One night his mom tried to wake him from the couch to go to bed and he stood up and started talking very loudly and tried to pull this giant mirror off the wall, he kept saying "it has to sit flush!!" and his mom was like "okay josh you need to stop" because he started to pull it off the wall, and he continued to yell until he eventually went back to sleep.

The other night I awoke to him reaching over me and he was pulling our dream catchers off the wall, there are two of them. And I was like what are you doing and he's like these cant be here, they won't want them on the wall. And I was worried so I followed him as he left the room, but he just went pee then laid down and fell asleep.

I also found him in another room asleep on a chair in the middle of the night and he doesn't remember getting there. Although these aren't extremely worrisome, we are a little worried because we thought it might be all the stress and long days he is going through, and he will be going through an actual academy for a fire station, we are worried when this time comes these will get worse. is there anything we can do to help these stop? Will melatonin work? Any suggestions would be very very helpful thank you!

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