I am an extreme sleepwalker and the things I've done in the middle of the night frighten me By Julie Cook Published: 11:58 EDT, 3 June 2024 | Updated: 12:29 EDT, 3 June 2024 e-mail 49 View comments While many of us climb into bed looking forward to a good night's sleep, Sarah Taylor dreads it. For the 32-year-old has no idea what might happen in the night: she could prepare a meal and eat it; build a pillow fort like a child; or go walking outside barefoot — all without knowing. Sarah, from Berkshire, suffers from extreme sleepwalking.
During her night episodes she has woken her husband James and argued with him, opened locked doors and even ended up out on the street. 'Although it's a quiet road in a quaint village, it is used by truckers looking for a break off the motorway so lorries often pass by — it's dangerous,' she says. It began when Sarah was at university when she and her three housemates would often wake to find doors ajar, cupboards wide open and food everywhere.
'We even discussed whether we had a ghost as this always happened at night,' she recalls. Sarah Taylor, 32, suffers from extreme sleepwalking and dreads going to sleep at night as she has no idea what might happen Then one night Sarah woke to find herself at the kitchen counter, a loaf in one hand and the other in the cupboard reaching for something to spread on the bread. 'It was then I knew it wasn't ghosts,' she says.
'It was me — sleepwalking.' She's since often experienced unexplained cuts and.
