EXCLUSIVE Chronic sleepwalker details the most shocking things she has done while asleep
Miranda Knowles, 30, from Canada, explained to the Daily Mail that she has had 'a history of somnambulism since she was a young child.'
She began sleepwalking as early as six years old, and would sometimes go outside, open the fence outside of her house, and wander into the large forest behind their property in the middle of the night.
Decades on, Miranda still sleepwalks - and she has done some pretty strange things in her sleep.
Sometimes, she's 'tame,' and she'll simply walk around the house or have conversations with her husband.
But other times, she will get out of bed and do full-on activities all while sleeping.
'I will clean, make lunches... I often clean dishes, I have folded clothing, rearranged furniture, put away decorations,' Miranda dished.
'I have gathered a bunch of food from the pantry into shopping bags so I'm not sure what I was [doing with] that.
'Most recently, I rearranged all our cat trees, we have four and three of them are quite large and heavy.
'I thought it was my husband but when I asked him why he did that he said I had done it in my sleep and he just left it.'
Miranda said the most dangerous thing she's ever done is go outside, but thankfully, she said that doesn't happen as often now as it did when she was young.
'I have walked outside and took my dog with me, maybe twice [as an adult],' she shared.
'Thankfully I live in a safe neighborhood and I have a large [dog] so I feel he would keep me safe.'
According to MayoClinic, many factors cause sleepwalking including 'not getting enough sleep, stress, sleep schedule disruptions, travel or sleep interruptions, taking certain medicines, substance use, such as alcohol, and some underlying conditions.'
Miranda told the Daily Mail that her sleepwalking seems to be related to stress because she has noticed that she does it more often when she is under extra pressure.
She recently went viral on TikTok after she opened up about a peculiar food delivery order that she had placed while sleepwalking.
In a clip shared last month that has now been viewed more than four million times, she explained that she had opened up the DoorDash app and requested one single packet of honey mustard in the middle of the night while she was sleeping.
She showed footage of her DoorDash driver approaching her home and leaving the condiment, writing, 'POV: You DoorDashed a single honey mustard sauce while sleepwalking at 12.43am for $8.'
She added in the caption, 'Apologies to the Dasher who delivered a single sauce to my door at 1am.'
While speaking to Daily Mail about it, Miranda said she had absolutely no recollection of placing the order, and only discovered it after looking through her emails the next morning.
'When I woke up I did not feel well rested, which usually means I slept walked over night,' she recalled.
'I asked my husband if I had been up and he said that I was walking around a bit and then when he came out to redirect me back to bed I was simply sitting on the couch.
Miranda said she had absolutely no recollection of placing the order, and only discovered it after looking through her emails the next morning. The sauce is seen on her plant holder
'I checked my emails as I usually do when I wake up and I saw an email from DoorDash telling me my order was delivered.
'I was confused because I did not remember ordering any DoorDash.'
She decided to do some digging and checked the photo confirmation of delivery - but was left more puzzled when she noticed there were no food bags in the snap.
'When I went to my door I still didn't see anything, so I looked at the order on my app and saw it was one honey mustard from A&W,' she continued.
'I looked again and there it was on my plant stand. I pulled up my Ring app and sure enough there was the Dasher delivering my honey mustard just before 1am.'
She recalled going from 'confusion to bewilderment to amusement.' But now, she's able to laugh about it.
'I was a bit upset that I had paid $8 for a single sauce (before the $5 tip) but I couldn't change anything about that,' she concluded.
'My husband and I just had to laugh at it and I thought it would be a funny video to share on TikTok.'
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