Guest Anonymous Posted November 21, 2003 Posted November 21, 2003 God, I thought Coal was having a night terror last night or something!! :o :o he was sleeping on my bed (SHHHHHH, he only gets this privlage if he's going to respect it and has been a very good boy lately, if he's bad, he's kicked out) anyway, he was stretched out sleeping while I was reading my book, and he started moving his feet, twitching around and growling, and making little woof noises. SO I pet him and was like "Coal". He still kept doing it, so I kina poked him and said his name louder. STILL kept doing it, so I poked him in the muzzel, STILL NO RESPONSE! I was getting a little worried, so I started shoving him and saying his name even louder, and the dog STILL WOULDN'T WAKE UP! So I picked his head up a bit and let it drop (dont' worry, he was on the bed, nice and cushiony) and FINALLY he kina grunted and blinked up at me as if to say "HEY! Why'd you wake me up?!" I was so scared! When I was younger, my parents told me I use to have these night terrors and stuff, and it was damn near impossible to wake me up, and i would just be screaming and crying, I was so scared sump like that was happenin to my baby boy! ALthough I've never heard of it in dogs before... It's weird, something like that and he just won't wake up, but as soon as someone opens the kitchen door he's there! :lol: :roll: Quote
Duke_3 Posted November 21, 2003 Posted November 21, 2003 well seee ifit happens again, and then i donoo look it up Quote
JackieMaya Posted November 21, 2003 Posted November 21, 2003 When Jackie dreams, EVERYTHING moves, her feet, her legs, her eyes twitch, and she kind of yelps. But I think she's just playing with Maya in her sleep, or chasing squirrels. Maya gets her legs going too, and when she talks in her sleep it's more of a growl. I don't wake my dogs up when they're dreaming. Hey, this way they're getting exercise even when they're sleeping! Goofy puppies! Quote
abker17 Posted November 21, 2003 Posted November 21, 2003 Ah, I know night terrors all to well. :-? :( Got real sick once and had them. :-? Parents couldn't wake me up either. I'd be careful when u wake a dreaming dog up though, could startle em' pretty bad. I suggest if u really want to wake him up, to blow in his ear. Dogs seem to hate this, and it wakes Abby up everytime. :) I think dogs do dream, but I dunno about night terrors....... :) Quote
Guest Anonymous Posted November 21, 2003 Posted November 21, 2003 Thanks for yer replies. I figure now nothins wrong, he just startled me at the time, and hey, it was 2 in the morning! What else was I supose to think!? :lol: :lol: Plus, it's hard to read when your getting kicked :wink: ABker, yeah, I know I should wake a sleeping dog in case he got startled, and the whole time was also scared he'd just snap me one :-? But I was a little more scared that I just couldn't wake him up :o Quote
Peng1zrule Posted November 21, 2003 Posted November 21, 2003 it was not a night terror--it was a dream...he was hard to wake up because he was experiencing REM sleep, and REM sleep is very hard to come out of, the muscles are even "paralyzed" to prevent you from standing up and acting out your dreams (same with dogs) A night terror takes place in stage four sleep, where there is almost no brain activity, and a night terror is much more "violent." Quote
mouseatthebusstop Posted November 21, 2003 Posted November 21, 2003 paddy does little barks and growls in his sleep-I belive he is having dreams too. I do not worry about it, I do say his name so he knows I am there to reasure him Quote
nadooshkinz Posted November 21, 2003 Posted November 21, 2003 INTERESTING! :o No really it is! This is actually the first time i've heard of something like that! (humans and dogs) hmmm... there's something to ponder about! Quote
Guest Anonymous Posted November 22, 2003 Posted November 22, 2003 Peng1zrule napisał(a):it was not a night terror--it was a dream...he was hard to wake up because he was experiencing REM sleep, and REM sleep is very hard to come out of, the muscles are even "paralyzed" to prevent you from standing up and acting out your dreams (same with dogs) A night terror takes place in stage four sleep, where there is almost no brain activity, and a night terror is much more "violent." Wow, something i didn't know there... Thanks Pengz. Quote
courtnek Posted November 22, 2003 Posted November 22, 2003 There are some people (myself included) where the paralysis part during REM doesnt always work. When I was a child I used to walk in my sleep. The paralysis prevents that in most people, but they thought my REM sleep was actually on the lighter side (I'm usually a really light sleeper) and I woulg get up and walk around the house. My mom always slept with her door open, and mine closed, so that if I opened it she would hear it (it squeaked and she never got it fixed). It stopped when I was about 11, but then one night when I was 16 she says (and I dont remember ANY of the episodes, ever) I got up, it was summer, I dressed up in winter clothes, coat, hat, mittens, leashed the dog and took him for a walk. She was following me down the street by my house in her housecoat. The doctors had always told her never to wake up a sleepwalker, but rahter, restrain them in a room somewhere and block them from leaving without touching them. She had an outside lock on my door in my room. She had stopped sleeping with her door open cuz we all thought the episodes were over. She said she followed me for about a block, I came back, got undressed and went back to bed....I dont remember any of it, but she showed me the winter clothes I had taken off and left on the floor.... and the leash was on the floor too, although it was always kept downstairs. Quote
Guest Anonymous Posted November 22, 2003 Posted November 22, 2003 :lol: :lol: LMFAO! Court! that's HALARIOUS! I can't believe you actually walked the dog and everything, I bet if any neighbors had happened to look out their window that night they'd be quite shocked! :lol: :lol: My oldest sister Anna use to (and sometimes still) sleep walked. She use to go turn off/switch the channel of the TV when mom and dad were watching, they always thought she was awake when she did this took! It took them forever to figure out she was sleeping. And she once tried to pee in the fridge! :lol: :lol: :o :roll: About... a month ago, she even CALLED HOME! She lives in Calgary now, and Dad said she phoned at like 3 in the morning, she was sleep walking though! :lol: I use to hear her come upstairs and drink the milk all the time, and when I'd ask her in the monring she would swear up and down she didnt' get up in the night! Quote
courtnek Posted November 22, 2003 Posted November 22, 2003 One of my closest friends was a childhood sleepwalker. She got up one night, went down to the kitchen where her mother was entertaining friends, and peed in the litchen garbage can.... :o :o :lol: :lol: Quote
Guest Anonymous Posted November 22, 2003 Posted November 22, 2003 :lol: :lol: :lol: I bet that would be embarassing to find out about the next morning! :o :lol: :lol: Quote
abker17 Posted November 22, 2003 Posted November 22, 2003 :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: Great stories guys! :lol: :lol: My best friend's Grandad use to sleepwalk alot. One night he got up and walked to work. :o No kidding either. :o :lol: He woke up a little but before he got to work, finding himself in bare feet and PJ's. :lol: :lol: :lol: Quote
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