Sleepwalking/talking (legal, play, son, 3 year old)

[HappyHitchhiker]

My 9 year old son has started sleepwalking/talking a lot lately. He has had moments in the past but nothing like this. He goes to bed then immediately starts acting out his dreams. He loves Pokemon, most of the time he plays with his Pokemon and heads off to start his Pokemon training (in his dreams of course). He will get up, eat, look out the window, etc. I have "woken" him up in his dream and he will go to his room and play with his Legos....but he is still sound asleep. If I make him open his eyes to prove he is awake then his eyes are rolled in the back of his head. He remembers what he dreams and thinks I'm psychic because I can tell him everything he did in his dream. He is very coherent. This is doing me no good because he will not lay down for good until after midnight. What can I do to help him? Anyone have experience with this kind of sleepwalking?

[rizzo0904]

Wow. I was a bit of a sleep walker as a kid, but nothing like that. I still talk in my sleep. My kids do it a bit too.

My concern would be him getting hurt...can he fall down stairs, can he get outside? I woke up one night to faint crying and couldn't find my 3 year old. He ended up being two stories down in the basement.

Have you talked to his pedi? Or tried a sleep study?

[flyonpa]

My Son 10-11yo went thru that phase also, talking in his sleep, walking around the house in the middle of the night, Some times i would find him asleep on the floor around the house in the morning. Once sleeping in the Big Bathtub in my bathroom.

Never asked anyone, he out grew it, I guess, I figured it was just part of early puberty...

[MrBitterness]

Is he using any illegal drugs?