<p>Okay, I haven't been diagnosed, and it's not at all a large problem. But this morning I awoke in my bed when the last thing I remember was working on an essay! I've had this experience several times -- when you plan to fall asleep in the chair but you wake up in your bed.</p>
<p>me! i always wake up in the empty bed next to my room, or I will wake up sleeping the wrong direction, or with my shirt off, or in my closet, or by the stairs.</p>
<p>You might have woke up and still been extremely groggy, like when someone calls you when you are asleep and you don't remember it.</p>
<p>I was a sleepwalker as a child and pre-teen. I've been a sleeptalker all my life. My daughter--who is around your age and will be entering college this fall--both walks and talks in her sleep. I have had a number of comical to creepy to downright scary middle-of-the-night sleepwalking/talking encounters with my daughter, who "functions" as though she is completely awake, but is, in fact, completely asleep. (She usually returns to bed on her own and awakens hours later with no recollection of such an encounter.) </p>
<p>I don't think sleepwalking is much cause for concern, as long as the people you live with know that you sleepwalk, and as long as you safeguard yourself from sleepwalking-related accidents and injuries. </p>
<p>Here's the advice I have given my daughter: 1) If your dorm room has bunk beds, claim the bottom bunk (insist on this, with RA assistance, if necessary); 2) Keep your dorm room door key with you at all times; 3) Inform your R.A. and your college roommate(s) that you sleepwalk; 4) Don't use in-room appliances (microwave, stove, coffeemaker, hotplate) when you are tired and might fall asleep; 5) Avoid falling asleep anyplace on campus other than your dorm room; 6) If you are invited on an off-campus overnight visit, inform your host or hostess and his/her roommates/family that you sleepwalk. </p>
<p>Best wishes.</p>