Do You Talk In You Sleep?
By Rozie37
@Rozie37 (15499)
Turkmenistan
January 30, 2008 12:36am CST
The first time I spoke in my sleep, I was 11 years old. I remember it well. My mother had recently died and my two sisters and I were living in a foster home. In my dream, my sisters were folding towels. I asked them if they needed any help, but I had actually said it out loud.
My sisters were in the room at the time and when they answered that they did not need any help, it woke me up. They are only two and three years older than I, so they had fun laughing and making fun of me.
But sometimes talking in your sleep can be an outlet for stress and only God knows what else. Last year this time, I had a roommate that was driving me crazy. And often I would have dreams that I was just totally going off on her and cursing her out. When I would wake up, she would say that I was fighting in my dreams.
Well this morning, I had a nightmare. I was kind of odd and familiar at the same time. I say that it was familiar because I am often skating around in roller skates in my dreams. But, I never fall or encounter any problems.
This time I was skating down a hill and lost control and could not stop. I ended up slowing down at a building that was under constrution. Because of the bars and plastic that had been put up to cover the building, I was not able to go around it, without going into the street.
So I went behind the plastic, trying to get to the other side, but when I got there, there was this big machine blocking the exit and I could not get out. All of a sudden I felt as though the area where I was, was about to be blown up. I yelled WAAAAAAIIIIITTTT!!! The next thing that I heard was my roommate saying that I had scared her. She had not been sleep. She was just laying down relaxing. As soon as I heard her say that, I woke up. It was so creepy. Has anything like this ever happened to you?
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@stormeetigress (487)
• United States
30 Jan 08
I did when I was 16 and according to my husband I still do. When I was 16 and my brother would come home late I'd cuss him out to be quiet but not remember it in the morning. I've told my husband to get his hands offa me when he wasn't even touching me. And I told my ex husband that our friend's were dancing outside in the rain naked with their daughter and Big Bird, LOL yes I have strange dreams. My 9 year old daughter talks in her sleep too, she yells at her younger sister, tells her to stop doing things and to be quiet!
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@Rozie37 (15499)
• Turkmenistan
30 Jan 08
Big Bird? That is a gas. So it must run in families indeed. My mom passed away when I was ten, so I don't know whether she talked in her sleep or not. I hope the nine year old has her own room. She may traumatize her little sister by yelling at her.
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@stormeetigress (487)
• United States
30 Jan 08
No she doesn't but my 8 year old sleeps hard enough that I don't think she hears her. And she may not do it at home, she lives with my ex and visits me on the weekend. She stays with my mom during the summer for a couple weeks in Minnesota and Mom has heard her as have I and my husband!
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@Shaun72 (15959)
• Palatka, Florida
30 Jan 08
I talk in my sleep also. I have asked questions in my sleep and then wake up with someone answering me. i also have had conversations in my sleep last time I did this I was talking to someone in my dream and woke up with someone else answering me. I have did this since childhood. Of course my mom does it too. i wonder if it is something that runs in my family lol.
@Rozie37 (15499)
• Turkmenistan
30 Jan 08
Really, your mom does it too? That is very interesting. It may very well be inherited. I can tell when I am actually talking in my sleep, because in my dreams, it is very hard for me to open my mouth. Then when I wake up, my mouth is much drier than normal.
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@SViswan (12051)
• India
30 Jan 08
I don't talk in my sleep. But I remember that my sister did(not sure if she still does it....will probably have to ask her husband).
But as a child, she used to talk quite a lot in her sleep.
We would be able to get whole incidents of what happened at school.
We shared a room and since I was 7 years older, I was never asleep when she was...so I would get a lot of information from her talkking in her sleep. Sometimes, I would question her the next day about it and she wouldn't tell. Sometimes, if I questioned her when she was still asleep, she wouldn't wake up and she would elaborate more about it.
My older son sometimes murmers things in his sleep. I don't understand what he is saying though.
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@Rozie37 (15499)
• Turkmenistan
30 Jan 08
Oh my goodness, your poor sister. She would actually be telling on herself in her sleep. That is very unsettling. If I talked that much in my sleep, I would probably end up in a lot of trouble. I did not know that you could communicate with a person while they were sleep and get them to talk more. I thought things like that only happened on I Love Lucy.
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@meljessxena (2315)
• Australia
30 Jan 08
it sure has, i am crazy with talking in my sleep, i usually say stuff like out a conversation i had previously with someone, or if stuff had been going through my mind through the day.
and sometimes i walk and talk in my sleep at the same time, and people who have seen it have just laughed, like my brother the other night was standing there and i was having a conversation with someone in the hallway ( which i had done earlier that day with my partner)
sorry about your mum passing on.
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@meljessxena (2315)
• Australia
31 Jan 08
yeah wish oculd have more privacy when comes to sleeping lol, but i just talk like im having a conversation, to bad if i say something i dont want someone to hear lol
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@Rozie37 (15499)
• Turkmenistan
30 Jan 08
I did not think that I would get so many responses from people who talk in their sleep. Maybe we should come up with some kind of device that will give us privacy when we are sleeping. Some things should not be said out loud. Thank you for your words of sympathy.
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@katisaurus (1038)
• Canada
31 Jan 08
Unfortunately I do. I also walk in my sleep. I remember once I was sleepwalking, and I walked in to my kitchen and told my mom there were big green dinosaurs in the dishwasher. Another time was the first time I had fallen asleep at my boyfriends. He said I was making a lot of groaning sounds and I was making fun of someone, calling them names n'stuff, and then I started to laugh and I was screaming "Stop it nathan!" And I woke up to him laughing at me. I had dreamt he was tickling me. I had moved around and was squirming in stuff in my sleep. It was weird.
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@katisaurus (1038)
• Canada
1 Feb 08
I know, my boyfriend gets a good chuckle out of me. I sleep with my mouth open too, so I drool a lot. I feel no shame in admitting that either, lol.
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@maddysmommy (16230)
• United States
31 Jan 08
Sounds creepy alright. I wonder what your dream meant?
I have never had this happen to me. Hope you are ok!
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@maddysmommy (16230)
• United States
31 Jan 08
HAHAHAHA no I meant your dream sounds creepy hahaha not you yelling at the end of it HAHAHAHA but then again with you yelling while you were asleep would of given me the creeps if i was there LOL
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@Ravenladyj (22902)
• United States
30 Jan 08
LOL yea I've talked in my sleep..in fact there have been times when ppl have held a coherant conversation with me while I'm sound asleep LOL...Apparently its quite entertaining...I however wouldnt know...since I'm asleep when it happens :-)
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@myworkid1987 (755)
• United States
1 Feb 08
lol thats funny...I like hearing about people takling thier sleep. Its so interesting specially if your right there hearing it yourself. I have been told I talk in my sleep when I was younger but it was so long ago I dont member the stories. But my husband hasnt said anything bout me talking in my sleep so I think I have grown out of it.
@suspenseful (40193)
• Canada
1 Feb 08
I was told that I mumble in my sleep, but not just lately and I do not want my husband because he mumbles too, stuff about work. I do dream rather vivid dreams, that are mixed up combining the places I used to live, growing a garden, driving a car, and flying. Oh the flying is a good thing to test if I am dreaming because they are so real. It is as if it is about a place I should have been if circumstances had not happened, some place where it does not snow that much.
I do dream of trying to climb up an insurmountable object - story of my life - and am sometimes surprised that I made it. Then there are the dreams of me going to a movie theater and the movie is one of those Action Adventure Escape to the Jungle type of movies and I always seem to get in for free. Someone else's paying, but I never was told I screamed in my sleep, although I did scream in my dreams.
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@sacmom (14192)
• United States
30 Jan 08
No, I never talked out loud while I was asleep, at least not that I know of, but I did giggle out loud from a dream once. I was laughing so hard inside my dream that it woke me up. I had felt myself giggling before I completely woke up. I was a little disappointed though. I thought I would have been laughing out loud harder from it than I was. :P
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@comeonmolly (828)
• China
31 Jan 08
Yeah,I have often suffer from this ,but not me that saying something while I am fall asleep .its my roommate that always talking something during the night time while she is fall asleep but neither of my roommates can understand what she said ,u know why?that's because while she say something when she is sleep she talks in her own dialect .haha...
Actually, I rarely talk in my sleep.but there was a time that I laugh in my sleep ..(this was my roommate told me,I didn't know)then my roommate asked me"molly,haven't you fall asleep?"what a surprise is that I even answered her while I am soundly sleep.I reply her"Yes,I am already sleep" which made her really scared and no longer say somthing when I am sleep...
Molly;-)
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@SHAMRACK (8576)
• India
31 Jan 08
Hi,
I hope I never talked in my sleep and even though I talked there should be someone to hear it and to say it to me.I had heard that people walking in their sleep and also heard one of my talking when he was in sleep but I could not understand what was he talking but I hope he just mummered something. Later we told it to him. May I hope they are giving some reactions to their dreams.
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@Savannahluv420 (18)
• United States
1 Feb 08
my goodness, im sorry,
yes i have experienced similar
but mine was more humorous.
my friend stephanie from when i was 10 till
even now would tell me weird things i said randomly.like "dont kill my fish" or just speakning to some1. But the last time any one reported these actons to me recently was when my aunt was staying with me for a while. she said for a week straight i was screaming in my sleep. but only once i woke up in the middle of screaming, and i never knew what it was about. Im sure it was stress, but i cant really recall my stresses from when i was younger. they may be repressed feelings, who knows? but i usually got a good laugh out of those times.
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@TerryZ (22076)
• United States
30 Jan 08
Hi Rozie oh yes Ive been known to talk in my sleep.LOL My husband will always tell me the next morning when Ive been talking in my sleep.LOL And I dont remember a thing. I remember my dreams but the dreams where Im talking I dont remember. Now how strange is that? Dreams are certainly strange.
@thrwbckjay67 (2870)
• United States
30 Jan 08
I don't normally talk in my sleep, but when I am fatigued or stressed I have ben told by partners in the past that I would be known to have short conversations in my sleep. For example, when I was working at Starbucks I was also a full-time student and putting a lot of pressure on me because I was also an assistant manager for the company. I was working easily 80 hours a week combined with my job and with school work and studying. My girlfriend at the time used to tell me that I would actually call out Starbucks drinks to "customers" in my sleep. Other than that, though, I don't believe that I do anymore.
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@Rozie37 (15499)
• Turkmenistan
30 Jan 08
Oh you poor thing, that sounds so sad. I can imagine that working at Starbucks be pretty demanding all be itself. My niece has worked there twice. But, never for long. She quickly finds something else to do. I have done school and work together and I know how stressful it can be.
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@teapotmommommerced (10359)
• United States
30 Jan 08
I have had night meres and night terrors all of my life. I tell you it is not fun. I have also talked and walked in my sleep. I think I have done it all.
When I use to work nights I would walk and talk in my sleep worse during the day.
Some people have what they call Rem behavior disorder that is where the body does not become paralized when a person dreams. This happens mostly in older men. I have seen it working 10 years in a sleep lab. It is funny to see a person in REM sleep and have them singing, dancing in bed and trying to climb out of bed.
Some of these people have to sleep on the floor or put their matress close to the floor so if they roll off the bed. They have to pad the furniture or keep the bedside tables away from the bed because they can hurt themselves when being active in their sleep. Sometimes doctors can give the patient medications that reduces the amount of rem sleep a person has. The problem with that is rem sleep is usually the most restorative sleep you get and a person should spend about 25% of their sleep time in rem sleep.
Now I have given to much information. A registered Sleep technologist
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@Rozie37 (15499)
• Turkmenistan
31 Jan 08
I learned about REM(Rapid Eye Movement) sleep in my psychology class. I know that REM sleep is deep and that is when you dream. I think that is the reason why it was so hard for me to orient myself when she told me that I had scared her.
I felt like I had been robbed of my sleep. I also learned that if you scare a person out of their sleep, they feel as though they have not gotten any sleep at all.
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@newzealtralian (3930)
• Australia
6 Feb 08
I don't think I talk in my sleep, but I know I write in my sleep. I've woken up a few times to find a scribbled message on paper by my bed, and I can never read it.
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@Rozie37 (15499)
• Turkmenistan
6 Feb 08
Girl, where have you been? I missed you. I have not seen you around in a while. Well, I am sure glad that you are back. What do you mean you write in your sleep? And here I thought I had heard it all. That is so interesting. I know that you wish you could read what it said. Your baby on that picture is so cute. Looks like a little doll. Everytime I see thos picture, I smile.
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@newzealtralian (3930)
• Australia
11 Feb 08
Ok, so I have woken up somewhat when I do the writing, but for some reason, I get it into my head that I have to write something down when it's 3am! lol.
@Uroborus (908)
• Canada
30 Jan 08
I did more of this when I was younger, especially as a teenager. I think stress partly contributes to talking in your sleep, and the turmoil of the teenage years can make it more likely to happen. I still do it from time to time though. Last time I did it was two years ago. It was actually screaming more than talking. You can imagine how my wife reacted.
@TheNightFox (235)
• New Zealand
1 Feb 08
I've been known to talk in my sleep but nothing really. It's usually just grunting. Occasionly ill say something like "noo!" but that will probably just be a bad dream or something
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