B-vitamins might have something to do with it since I don't eat much red meat or leafy greens.

Speaking of the Senoi, Jon Hassel drew inspiration from their cultural approach
to dreaming for his release "Dream Theory in Malaya"

Couldn't hurt. My friend does yoga before bed. It's helped her sleep a hell of a lot better.

I inherited night terrors and sleepwalking from my father (and insomnia from my grandmother - so really, I could hardly choose if I wanted to go to bed, haha!). At first I'd just have the occasional thing where I'd be in a nightmare and act like I was wide awake: I'd come downstairs and actually tell whoever was there what was happening and beg them to help me, but they thought I was making some kind of strange joke and seekign attention. I never have had the slightest memory of any of this, despite being able to recall "normal" dreams well. I would just get in trouble with my parents for being "weird" and disruptive again. It felt unfair to me. They actually spanked me once while I was dreaming I was drowning and kept coming back in to the living room where they were entertaining some people, and I wouldn't quit, but I have zero memory of it. The spanking did not wake me up and apparently, I didn't seem to feel it. But did quit coming back after that.

The night terrors got really bad when I was in high school, hardly ever slept and I would start screaming and keep screaming on and on until someone actually came and physically woke me. I lived in a little house at the back of the property and so usually this person was our next-door neighbor, that's how loud I was. Plus my parents were so sick of me that they just ignored any screaming. I have never remembered any of it except once, only once, I did wake myself up with the noise, and heard the tail end of a scream and was really confused: was that me? why am I screaming? It's like it happened to some other person who was only there when I was unconscious and did not communicate with "me."

Night terrors and sleepwalking and all of this seemed to happen when I was in an extremely deep sleep state and had not been getting enough sleep. Also there all kinds of anxieties at the time but it was so common to have anxiety that I can't pick that out as a cause. I grew out of it. As far as I know (haha!) it was done by the time I was about 21 and I never even have nightmares more than once a decade or so. At the same time, I stopped sleeping so heavily and went to probably a more normal sleep cycle in my 20s. My father's did not wear off, as far as I know, but were made worse by his being injured in combat. Nobody could live with him after that, he could get dangerous.

I did sleepwalk a couple of months ago, and I know this because I woke up in the living room going WTF? How'd I get here? It was kinda fun.

It's really the strangest aspect of my life, because I keep very mentally aware of myself, my thoughts, my actions, my beliefs, my words, in waking life. But I suspect I had a whole different life in my sleep, but I only know about it if other people witnessed it. I don't think I've ever done any harm to anyone, or eaten stuff (as seems really common), but I do know I've walked right out of the house and taken off down the street many times at various ages. Glad it's over, really.