Alyson Bair was having a nightmare that she was drowning. When she woke up, she was actually drowning.
"I thought I was dreaming, but then I realized I wasn't and I was scared," Bair told ABCNews.com, recalling the night she woke up in the river outside her home in early August. "It was deep and I couldn't touch anywhere and I was getting tired. I had to keep turning around and floating on my back."
She was eventually able to crawl onto a river bank and take cover until someone found her in the morning.
Bair, 31, is a wife and mother of two who lives in Burley, Idaho. She loves photographing her family, camping, reading and bowling. But she is also battling a mysterious nightmare and sleep walking problem that has terrified her and her family.
"It's definitely scary and it worries me," she said. "I haven't tried to drive or anything yet, but it just scares me what I could do. We've locked up all my medicines and made sure that our guns are locked up. Everything I could harm myself with is put away because I don't know what I'm going to do when I'm sleeping."
Two weeks after the near-drowning, Bair suffered a similar episode.
On Aug. 20, her husband Cody Bair, 34, woke up around 1 a.m. to use the bathroom and everything was normal. At 2 a.m., one of the couple's two children woke him up and needed attention. At that point, he noticed that his wife was not in bed and that the sliding glass door that leads outside was open, according to a police report.
Around 7:30 a.m., Bair was found on the riverbank about a quarter of a mile from home, according to police. She was wet and suffering from hypothermia. She was taken to the hospital and subsequently released.
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