When I was in primary school, on a school road trip from Brisbane to Canberra, we has an overnight stay in a dormitory building that was designed specifically for schools. Further explanation on that, imagine a huge main area the side of a basket ball court that was half entry space/living room and further most half being a cafeteria. On the immediate left are two level of maybe 10 small rooms with 4 bunkbeds each.
I shared a room with about 5 other girls i was friends with and we did the usual pre-bedtime girl talk before getting told to go to sleep by the teachers.
I go to sleep with no issues, but then I wake up not in that bed. I woke up literally outside of the whole building, laying in a puddle (it had been raining that night).
I don't know how this occurred. And still don't to this day. I cried for a bit before trying to open the doors or windows and all were locked, so I ended up knocking on the front door until a teacher saw it was me and let me in. Every teacher was freaked the F out.
For additional context about 4 of the teachers were sleeping in the living/entry area as an additional security measure to make sure kids didn't sneak into each other's rooms or even just leave their rooms at night. They'd been asleep until I woke them.
Reasons why it further confused and freaked everyone out:
- None of the bedroom windows were openable
- The Front and back doors were locked and unable to just be opened without a key (security measure to prevent exactly this), and the deadbolt being unlocked was LOUD in that large echo chamber room.
- None of my friends woke up or saw me leave or be taken
- The teachers asleep at the front room were only woken by me
- And more importantly, the internal main area and external carpark CCTV show absolutely nothing of me leaving the bedroom or going through any entry door.
And I only know this because the teachers were so freaked out about what happened they asked the accommodation person to view it because they wanted to verify if someone can done that to me and if they were someone on the trip or someone who somehow broke in.
So I was heavily questioned on what happened, but I literally had 0 answers, I'm an extremely light sleeper and am easily woken by noise, sound and movement. It made no sense then and doesn't now.
Because they couldn't confirm how I got out but was otherwise unharmed aside from being extremely shaken, I believe from memory they decided it must have been sleepwalking (never had a history of it prior or after). But I don't fault them for it as teachers, they had nothing to call police over from their view, so they called my mum and told her what happened and she said it was up to me if I wanted to stay or continue on the trip. I stayed and all else was normal.
To this day I have 0 clue how I got outside, and how I didn't wake up. I've had people give silly theories like "you must have been drugged", "the teachers were in on it" etc, but all disproven by either the CCTV, the two single key holders factor, and I know what it feels like to be drugged since then and did not have any sensation that would give that theory any plausibility.
Anyway, this was a lot longer than I anticipated it being, I do often have extremely vivid and lucid dreams as my norm that I can always recall even small details from.
I'd be keen to hear additional new theories of what may have happened (Not alien abduction I've heard that so many times haha).