# Alcohol and sleepwalking **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [July 1, 2003, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alcohol-and-sleepwalking/185616 "2003-07-01T17:39:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![lestat915](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f05b48/32.png) [@lestat915](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lestat915)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2003, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alcohol-and-sleepwalking/185616/1 "2003-07-01T17:39:42Z")
Ok funny story with a question at the end…I drink up at college and on more than one occasion (4 to be exact) i have gotten real drunk and started sleeping walking…the first time i almost pissed on my girlfriends roomate, then almost got arreted for knocking on the wrong persons door, then i went in a good friends parent’s bedroom and pissed in the corner and finally i fell off a twenty foot cliff. Now two of the occasions i do not know what i had to drink but the other two i would say i had drank about a twelve pack. Is it definatly the alcohol and why do i do this?:smack: ---
**Author:** ![Matchka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/77aa72/32.png) [@Matchka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Matchka)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2003, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alcohol-and-sleepwalking/185616/2 "2003-07-03T06:27:54Z")
Are you sure you’re sleepwalking and not just experiencing a combination of “black out” and extremely poor judgement? I’ve heard of those kinds of things happening (mistaking non-porcelain items for the potty) to folks but have been lucky enough to avoid this particular scene. It’s surely not uncommon to hear someone wondering to themselves, “how did I get home last night?” It is also not uncommon to hear about someone getting wasted and then getting hurt (or hurting others). Just a personal aside…you should probably cut back a bit if you haven’t already.