Creepy Conversations Under Cover of Night.

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I should be asleep but I am not. There comes a time in every sleepless night where you have to get out of bed and do something other than try to fall asleep. There are strange noises at night, however, and they don't make it a relaxing experience. When you are sleeping, you don't realize how much noise other people are making. For instance, if I had been asleep, I wouldn't have heard The Boy talking in his sleep just now. I couldn't understand much of what he said. Besides, I always feel guilty when I listen to people talking in their sleep. It's like an invasion of privacy. My mother was the queen of sleep talk. She would call out to you and hold conversations with you in her sleep. It was sometimes a little disconcerting. I remember once when I ventured to the bathroom in the middle of the night, she told me to make tuna sandwiches for the shop girl who had to keep the shop open all night. I didn't make the sandwiches, because we didn't have a shop, let alone a shop girl. My mother could do much more than talk in her sleep, she could sign notes for school and even checks. She would keep signing right off the edge of the paper. It was convenient when you didn't really want her to know what was written in the note. I wonder if I talk in my sleep, but I have no way of knowing since I am asleep and can't hear myself. Everyone else in the family sleep talks. But I don't like the fact that their conversations with invisible people wake me up. It's a little creepy to have someone muttering disjointed sentences in the dark. Of course, if you wake them up and ask them what they were talking about, they will deny the whole thing. Do you talk in your sleep? Do you have a sleep-talker in your house? Do you think it's rude to eavesdrop on sleep talk or do you find it creepy?