I never kept babysitters long...
...when I was a kid, and still now, the part of my brain that paralyses you in sleep doesn't quite work properly.

So, I tend to act out my dreams.

Screaming, crying, yelling, talking to people that aren't there.. I never actually sleepwalk, but I do do some very odd things, and I'm perfectly capable of maintaining conversations, although I don't quite make sense. I also get very annoyed if anyone suggests I might be asleep, although paradoxically that sometimes wakes me up and I have to sheepishly admit that, ok, yes, that time I WAS asleep...

Anyway, as a child many babysitters we're freaked the fuck out by me being 'possessed' as some put it. Yammering away...

My mum trying to explain beforehand for any babysitters to ignore me if I start talking rubbish didn't really help either.
(inflateable, Thu 28 Oct 2010, 17:55, 1 reply)

i sleep with my eyes open
always freaked out the babysitters
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Thu 28 Oct 2010, 18:12, closed)