Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Sleepwalking

Donna emailed me this morning and asked me if I could call her so she could explain the sleepwalking thing over the phone.

I just got off the phone with her. This is what she told me:

Back when the family lived in Manhattan, Donna and Matt first noticed that Luna seemed to be an occasional sleepwalker. They heard her stumbling around in her room late at night on a couple occasions. Neither of them was worried about it until one night Luna sleepwalked out of her bedroom, out the apartment door, and down to the lobby before another resident in the building spotted her and woke her up.

Part of the reason for the move back upstate was because Donna and Matt were worried about what might have happened had Luna not been woken up; she could have walked right out into the busy Manhattan streets. Donna admitted that there were also other reasons for moving; she said that she and Matt had had plans that didn't come to fruition and so there wasn't really any reason for them to remain in NYC. Luna's sleepwalking incident was simply the final straw.

Donna says that now they ask Luna to lock her door before going to bed so if she does sleepwalk, she can't leave her room.

Luna isn't aware that she sleepwalks, apparently; even when she's woken up while sleepwalking, she never remembers the incident afterwards. Donna says they haven't told Luna about it because they don't want her to feel like something's wrong with her, or like it was her fault that they moved back upstate. (Donna stressed again that most of the reason for the move had nothing to do with Luna's sleepwalking.)

So now this leaves me with two questions:
  1. Should I tell Luna about the sleepwalking?
  2. Should I ask Luna or Donna about their other reasons for moving back upstate?

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