A night without sleep and.. a sleepwalking child?

This night is not going well for me. I can’t sleep (writing this post, it’s 3am), and my son has woken up several times and come to our bed, so I have walked him back to his and laid down next to him.

All of a sudden, he sits up. I try to make him lie down again, but no. After like 10 minutes he lay down again. He talks in his sleep, and boom, at 2.50am he gets up. Go to the living room and start packing his backpack. I followed him and tried to get him to come back to bed—no success.

Packed his bag and say, “Now let’s go,” and go to the entrance hallway. I had tried for several minutes to get him back to bed, and when he said that, I answered him, “Yes, to the bed,“ and here we are now.

I wonder why and when it happened. Has it happened before? While I have been sleeping? I have never seen E walk in his sleep or anything so. Note that the whole apartment is completely pitch black, and he walks around with no problem.

Due to me not being able to sleep, my eyes have adjusted to the minimum of lights.

So now I’m in his bed, trying to get him to fall asleep, but no success. At this rate, it won’t be any school for me.