A woman woke one morning to discover she had spent $8 the night before getting food delivered to her home.
There were just two problems though: she had no memory of ordering the food and there was no trace of it anywhere in her home, save for a picture on her phone sent as part of an email confirmation. It was only when she discovered a sachet of sauce and checked the footage on her Ring doorbell camera, that the truth revealed itself.
When Miranda Knowles, from Nanaimo in British Columbia, Canada, finally realized what had happened, she wasn’t entirely surprised.
Knowles has been a sleepwalker her entire life. “It started as a young child and still happens, up to 10 times a month,” she told Newsweek. “I have cleaned, put Christmas decorations away, crafted items, prepared food, bathed, and done laundry. Nothing too crazy but I can get a lot done while asleep.”
In 2012, research published by the Stanford University School of Medicine found that somewhere in the region of 8.4 million U.S. adults were prone to sleepwalking. The study also identified an association between sleepwalking and psychiatric disorders like depression and anxiety. “I find that I sleepwalk more if I have a lot of caffeine in the day or if I’m stressed,” Knowles said.
Recently, Knowles’ sleepwalking has taken on a different form though. “Lately I’ve been Door Dashing random items,” she said. “Just regular things, onion rings, just a single bottle of Coke although I don’t drink Coke. I either see the email notification when I wake up or I go to leave for work and there’s a bag of cold food at my door.”
That’s what led to the recent incident. Knowles woke to find the usual email notification but no bag of cold food at her door.
“I was so confused because I didn’t see any bag in the picture so I ran down the stairs and was baffled to see the little sauce,” she said. That was when she noticed the sachet of honey mustard. By reviewing footage from her Ring doorbell cam of the delivery being made and going through her DoorDash order history, Knowles was able to piece together what had happened.
She had paid a man $8 to deliver a single sachet of sauce to her house. “I thought it was funny so I showed it to my husband and he wasn’t surprised at yet another silly sleepwalking thing I did,” Knowles said. “I do like A&W honey mustard but I’m not sure why I would order it alone!”
Eager to share the amusing experience further, Knowles posted the doorbell camera footage of the delivery to her house on her TikTok onewithwater. It’s been watched 4.5 million times already.
Though it might seem like an extreme incident, Knowles doesn’t think of it as her worst sleepwalking crime. “It’s up there, but I’ve also emptied the entire fridge, I’ve had a bath, I’ve wandered outside in the middle of the night,” she said.
Though her family’s reaction has always been a mix of amusement and concern, Knowles has “learned to live with it.”
“I try to keep my life stress free but that isn’t possible for everyone,” she said. “I was a registered nurse in emergency for the last two and a half years so I was always stressed. Recently I changed to another job and it’s not as much stress, so less sleepwalking.”
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