Alan and I were lying in bed last night. We were talking about I-don’t-remember-what. Moira comes walking in all groggy-like. I immediately figured she’d had a bad dream. Alan assumed the same thing, got up and took her in his arms and said “did you have a bad dream, honey?” She just looked at him blankly. Which is odd, because usually she is very verbose about what exactly was in her dream – monsters, spiders, lions, etc. So he asked her again…and she looked at him, laid her head back, and closed her eyes. I piped up at that point and said “Moira – are you all right?” She just looked at me with her eyes open – but in a very zoned out way. We’re both expecting her to wake up enough to tell the tale of the nightmare, but it’s not happening.
Alan looks and me asks if I think she’s sleepwalking. I said “I don’t know.” We both look at each other, then at her. Then comes the brilliant part. Alan turns to Moira and says “are you sleepwalking?” She opens her eyes very peacefully, says “yes”, then drifts back off to sleep.
Who knew you could ask sleepwalkers to confirm their sleepwalking!? And who knew they will indeed very calmly do so?!
