TIL Sexsomnia, also called sleep sex, is a disorder in which sleeping people engage in sexual behaviors such as masturbation or initiating sex with another person. Even if their eyes open and they make sexual noises, they are truly asleep and unaware of their behavior once they are awake.

Ok so this is somthing that happens to me reasonably often. But I only found out a couple of years ago. So it makes me wonder how much of my life I've been doing it.

Many times I'd awake half way through. Usually in the mornings on a Saturday and I'd be inside my partner with no memory of how I got there. But never really questioned it until an ex said it was keeping her awake lots of nights and eventually wanted to sleep in seperate beds.

Since then I've had to warn anyone I sleep next to that I'm likely to get very gropey if we share the same bed. But I can have full conversations and usually end up on-top if I'm not stopped. I will usually end up trying to finger them or inserting my member which is easy enough because I always sleep naked.

The interesting thing is I will even attempt it with anyone in the bed doesn't matter who. Unfortunately even male friends topping and tailing. Sorry to the one mate who shared a room with me at a convention a few years prior. He managed to fight me off and luckily found it hilerious but definitely thinks I'm a sleep rapist.

Maybe post this on my throw-away actually haha

/r/todayilearned Thread Link - sleepfoundation.org