240. Sleepwalker

The Secret Room | True Stories

Ben Hamm

Storytelling, Personal Journals, Story, Podcast, Stories, True, Society & Culture

4.4 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Lucy is a sleepwalker. She tells us how she unravels what she did last night, and it is fascinating. From the humorous to the dangerous, hear how sleepwalking affects every part of her life, and how she protects herself from herself.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hi Ben, my name is Lucy, and my secret is that I'm a sleepwalker.
0:03.9	Maybe it was cute when I was a kid, but as an adult, it's anything but.
0:07.9	You will have a hard time believing the things I've done, and I fear I'm a danger to myself and others.
0:13.0	I'm here to tell my secret so that people might understand the world I live in.
0:17.0	Today, the secret Room presents Sleepwalker.
0:33.9	And I stood in front of the bed and just was staring at him.
0:35.4	And he said, I didn't say anything.
0:37.9	And then he said I just turned around and took like an ottoman. And he said, I pushed it up against the front door.
1:00.5	On today's edition of the podcast, we're going to hear from Lucy, a woman with a problem that has more tentacles than you might think.
1:02.3	She is a sleepwalker.
1:06.5	I'm going to ask her about all the odd and dangerous things she's done without ever even knowing and how her problem interferes with her real life and relationships.
1:09.7	And perhaps most importantly, how she protects herself from, well, herself.
1:15.2	Let's get started.
1:18.9	Hi, Lucy, and welcome to the secret room.
1:22.0	Hi, Ben. Thank you for having me.
1:23.7	You're welcome. You've really got quite a story for us, don't you?
1:28.4	I do.
1:29.6	So what is your secret?
1:32.8	So I'm a sleepwalker.
1:34.6	And it's a lot more than that, right? It's quite debilitating.
1:39.6	Yes, it very much so.
1:41.3	How so?
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