Sunstroke side-effects?
When I was about 12, I was out walking on a really hot summer's day. I must have gotten sunstroke, because I started to black out as I was walking. My field of vision just got narrower and narrower, and eventually I had to look straight down at my feet to make sure I wasn't walking out into traffic. Not really sure how I even made it home, really. As soon as I got home, I lay down on the couch and was instantly asleep/comatose. When my mother got home, she found me asleep, tried to wake me, and gave up. Finally, around 9 p.m. she saw me get up, and I came into the kitchen and started to rummage through the fridge. I got a drink, and it looked like I was looking for something to eat. She asked if I was okay, and if I wanted some dinner. I said I was hungry, and after a bit of a conversation, we decided on a meal and she started cooking. I went off, she assumed to the washroom or my bedroom. Once dinner was done, she came looking for me, and found me fast asleep in bed. When she mentioned it the next day, I had no recollection of any of it: the last thing I could remember was collapsing on the couch.

I used to sleepwalk all the time when I was much younger, but that was fairly standard stuff: prowling the halls of our house, mainly. My dad always maintained it was creepy, though, to turn around and see me standing there staring at him in the middle of the night. I can see his point, really.

Lastly, I used to have a boyfriend who would violently punch the pillow while he was sleeping. Hard. On a couple of occasions, he almost punched me in the head. Nice way to be woken up. But he was, and still remains, a cnut of the highest order.
(BlackArmadillo Avoided writing that article on, Thu 23 Aug 2007, 20:55, Reply)