I was asleep...

[TheEarl]

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/13/1097607301349.html?oneclick=true

Sex and the walking sleeper
By Julie Robotham
October 14, 2004

By day, she was a respectable, middle-aged woman who lived with a steady partner. By night, she crept out of their house to seek random sex with strangers.

But the woman was unaware of her own double life, which was conducted while she was asleep, said the Sydney doctor who diagnosed and treated her.

"Incredulity is the first staging post for anyone involved in this - including medicos," said Peter Buchanan, a sleep physician at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital. "One has to maintain a healthy degree of scepticism."

In this case, though, it was immediately clear the woman's story was not an ingenious cover for clandestine sexual liaisons. The patient was baffled; her partner was distraught.

"He was aware of some sleepwalking and there was circumstantial evidence, including the unexplained presence of condoms around the house," Dr Buchanan said. "On one occasion he awoke to find her absent from the bedroom and searched until he found her - engaged in such activity."

Her condition, known as sleep sex, is a recently identified form of parasomnia, or sleep disorder, Dr Buchanan will tell the Annual Scientific Meeting of the Australasian Sleep Association in Sydney this weekend.

He said sleep sex was increasingly being recognised as a real and personally devastating condition. He expects it will be included in the next revision of the International Classification of Sleep Disorders, giving it the final stamp of legitimacy.

The disorder is fraught with personal danger through risky sex practices, and legal danger if the sufferer commits sexual assault while sleepwalking.

Dr Buchanan said it was difficult to diagnosis, as staying overnight in a sleep laboratory would generally inhibit the behaviour. But in the woman's case, brain tests showed she was likely to rouse from deep sleep without passing first through lighter sleep patterns, a phenomenon linked to all types of parasomnia.

Almost half of sleep-sex cases were associated with psychological problems, and the woman was treated successfully with psychotherapy. But the fact that the condition manifested as aberrant sexual behaviour did not indicate sexual abuse or any sexual problem, Dr Buchanan said, and it was a sleep disorder, not a sexual disorder.

Sleepwalking is the most common parasomnia, affecting up to 3 per cent of children and fewer than 1 per cent of adults. But sleep sex, while rare, might be more common than is realised, because sufferers might be too embarrassed to seek help.

I'm not wholely convinced by this. I'm sure that there are a lot of people who it applies to, but there must be a hell of a lot of blaggers out there too who've just found a good excuse.

Sorry darling, I was asleep at the time.

Whaddya think?

The Earl

 

[impressive]

Thanks for the idea!

 

[Xelebes]

Somnambulance is great fun, especially when you wake to hear the tales of your wild and crazy adventures.

 

[dr_mabeuse]

So that's why some of them snore when I'm making love to them?

---dr.M.

 

[Wicked-N-Erotic]

Thanks for the idea!

Ditto


I wish I suffered from this form of sleepwalking instead of the one I do have... I eat....I have woke up in the kitchen many times standing at the fridge or counter stuffing my face with cookies or anything sweet. I really scares me sometimes, I think it could be dangerous...you know, could be a choking or health hazzard not knowing what I'm eating or even doing. Not to mention it's hell on a diet when you're stuffing junk food in the middle of the night.




Wicked

 

[minsue]

Hmmm....I don't sleep walk, but I have woke up to find myself in the middle of (apparently) passionate sex during which I was on top. He was less than thrilled when I started laughing and asked what was going on. Considering that I was drinking heavily during that time period, alcohol may have been a factor.

 

[English Lady]

My husband has fucked me in his sleep twice, second time he waited till i'd had my orgasm then rolled off and snored *L*

To say it was bizarre would be an understatement*L*

 

[Wholemanz]

My husband has fucked me in his sleep twice, second time he waited till i'd had my orgasm then rolled off and snored *L*

To say it was bizarre would be an understatement*L*

Now the question is, do you want him to do it again? and again, and again...

giggles