My middle son who is 6, started sleep walking when he was 4. At first I didn't know what was going on, he just got out of bed and was fussing, crying, but wouldn't talk, I tried talking to him, but his eyes were opened but he was just scanning, wouldn't focus, I thought, "what is going on?" The next morning I thought about it more and decided that he must be sleep walking. Since then he does it a couple times a month, usually in a kind of clustered pattern.  He did it again last night, now I just get him to crawl in bed with me and comfort him and tell him to close his eyes and go to sleep. He's always very distraught, but never remembers it in the morning.

Its very strange, we never had sleep walkers in my family - although my great-grandfather, Poppie,  told a story about how his own dad was a sleep walker and one time went out and rode a horse he was breaking, in his sleep!  Poppie loved telling stories, but they were usually true.  Thankfully, my son so far comes straight to my room when he is doing it, hopefully he won't ever go outside or attempt to ride a horse.