Hello. I am not too sure if I can answer your question.. but I've been tring to look things up to help reasure myself on some things. I too sit up in my sleep, this usually occurs 4 to 5 times a week. My roomate typically doesnt wake me up anymore, she used to lie me back down, however, she would wake up an hour later to find me sitting up agian. I am 22 years old, I have been doing this since i was 13. I cannot seem to figure out why this happens, I've tried to keep up with a sleeping pattern, the only thing that I can conclude is, I only do this when I am stressed. I am a mother to a beautiful 19 month old baby girl, I left her father 5 months ago, thats when it started to occur very often. We are in the middle of a nasty custody battle as well. I'm pretty sure occurances like this are stress related.. but thats all I can put my finger on. I hope that I have been of some sort of help to you! God Bless!

purplepeopleeater<3

4/ 5/10 3:26pm

wow me too! im 12, almost 13 and its happened quite a lot, ill be sleeping on the sofa and ill sit up and start talking, the last thing i said in my sleep was something about something having a nice ending xDD idk.. but i remember before i went to bed i was thinking about how the movie will hav a nice ending cuz my dad was watching an exiting movie and i couldn't watch it and i was listening to it and i was trying to go to sleep and i kept telling myself that, and i had felt stressed because i was mad at my mom and i wanted to see the movie and so yeah idk.. but my dream had nothing to do with any of that. and my dream was entirely different. its weird how when your sleeping, and your having a dream about something, it means that your brain is probably working on two parts, one, to keep your dream going, and the second, to make your body move and talk and stuff. so think i think thats freaky. 

I dont have an answer for you..but i myself have sleep apnea and i sit up in my sleep..i know i am doing it..and i can feel myself doing it...but i wont lay back down. My husband has to make me lay down and often i am really tired in the morning. It started when i was around 13 years of age and i was going through some really hard times. My thearpist and dr's told me it was just stress. That in  my sleep sit up to realive some stress..i went to do a sleep study and the dr told me that he didnt know why, but it may be because of my sleep apnea. My body goes into kind of a protective mode and i may have stopped breathing for too long, so my body just goes upright. Sounds weird but it sounded almost right. Well now i've noticed my 7 year old doing it at night. I'll lay her down and in the morning she will ask me who layed her down. So she knows that she is being laid down but dont see them. Its like you are outside your body kinda. I  dont know. I was just wondering if it was just me or if others were like that..