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I've had sleep-walking episodes since I starting having to use an in-out catheter in 2012. I have two or three such episodes annually. They're harmless episodes. The first one that I recall was having a dream that I needed to go to the washroom and to get there had to walk through a room with a complicated floor plan (we have no such room in our house). I decided I should make a record of that floor plan for future use. I sort of 'woke up' in the washroom but still didn't understand, until I opened the washroom door, that the house in my dream wasn't our house and that I'd been sleep-walking. During this episode, I fetched a clean catheter, went to the washroom and used the catheter properly.
My latest one was, as I lay in bed, finding that I had one of my wax ear plugs (I always use these) clutched in my right hand. I thought this was chewing gum, put it in my mouth and started chewing it. I was surprised that it had no flavour. (By the way, I never chew gum.) After a while I found it unpleasant, took it out, and reconstructed, more or less, what had happened.
My thought is that having to use a catheter somehow twigs toilet-training memories, deep and remote. Comments? Lorraine.
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Last two nights I've dreamed water-related. I use a ball jar with the markings on it so I can keep track of the amount of water I drink daily. I dreamed that the jar, filled with water, slipped out of my hands and crashed onto the floor. Night before I dreamed that I jumped feet first into the ocean and where I'm normally a good swimmer, I sunk too far down to have any depth perception or strength to get anywhere near the surface. It was scary but at the moment of panic, I woke up.
Very interested on the strange floor plan for the wash room in your dreams, did you sketch it?