• the_infernal_optimist said on Jul 18, 2007....

  How cute (but gross about the centipede, eww)! :-D
  
  I talk in my sleep. Once, in college, I sat up in bed around 2am and rather testily asked my roommate, still awake, "What time is it?"
  
  She told me, and then I shouted, "WHAT TIME IS IT?" so she shouted it back at me. She said I then very calmly stretched back out again, and didn't say another word.
  
  I also can hold a conversation I'm not actually awake for, and then I have no recollection of it the next day. So...I have no idea if I've ever said something really bad/unwise!
  
  What really sucks is when I wake myself up talking. :-p
  
  I've had occasion to hear quite a few people talk in their sleep, and it's always hilarious to me. My brother once went off on a rant about Mario (as in Super Mario Bros.) and a pineapple. WTH?
  
  ~Infernal
  

• secretlife said on Jul 18, 2007....

  my middle daughter used to talk in her sleep ALL the time.  She'd have lots of arguments.  I used to stand outside her room and listen and i could piece together her day by the conversations.  it was like she didn't finish an argument, so she would do it in her sleep.

  i think it's really cute that your son was dreaming about the centipede (yuck i hate bugs period)....i don't think i have ever talked in my sleep.  my husband has a few times when he's had too much to drink!

• mirrorimage said on Jul 18, 2007....

  Infernal: LMAO!!! Oh my goodness that's funny! Maybe you were dreaming that you overslept for something?! I forgot all about Mario. I used to play that so much I'm surprised I didn't talk about it in my sleep!  You know you have a problem when you wake yourself up from talking!! LOL just kidding!
   
   
  SL: That might come in handy someday! Does she still do it? You could be mother of the year with knowing the perfect thing to say at the perfect time without her having to tell you what's bothering her.... it could definitely come in handy over the next few years! :)

• dailyachesandpains said on Jul 18, 2007....

  OMG!  This post had me crrrrracking up laughing!  The first time Little D ever laughed a big laugh was while she was sleeping.  We ran in to catch it and she was still cracking up in a giggle fit and cooing.  I ended up crying because the darn video camera didn't have the battery pack in it!  I have it in my mental memory.
   
    I hate so much that I talk in my sleep...HATE it!  I have woken myself up in mid sentence from hearing myself and couldn't help but want to wring my own neck, or beat myself into the headboard!  It's so humiliating, even if nobody is in the room...that doesn't even make sense!
   
  Thanks for the laugh!
  Daily

• mirrorimage said on Jul 18, 2007....

  Daily! How have you been? I've missed you!! :)
   
  Oh... that is so sad that the battery pack wasn't in the camera!! I would have cried too! I bet it was adorable though!! LOL
   
  I have done it a few times and I don't like it either. I'm always worried that I am going to say something I shouldn't. What if I am dreaming about hugh grant or the hottie doc and say the wrong name?! Like "HUGH!! SHUT OFF THE ALARM CLOCK!" :) Just kidding... it is embarrassing though... whether anyone is there or not!

• moonriver said on Jul 18, 2007....

  i remember grapekoolaid had a blog on sleep-talking around end-nov last year, and i followed up on the same day with my own blog about sleep-talking in prison.
  
  

• mirrorimage said on Jul 18, 2007....

  Moon: LMAO..  Well... I guess those comments are so funny it was worth revisiting! I actually commented on grapes back when I was momsrock... I forgot all about it! That was a long time ago... you have a good memory! I don't think I saw yours though... very funny as well!

• secretlife said on Jul 18, 2007....

  moms:  she outgrew it around 10 yrs old and now only infrequently talks in her sleep.  i think for her it was a way to relieve stress.

  my oldest did sleep walking....she'd look like she was wide awake...but she'd be completely out of it...not remember a thing in the morning!

  so daily what do you talk about in your sleep? (btw it's good to see you!)

   

• mirrorimage said on Jul 18, 2007....

  SL: That could be.... especially if they were arguments. Did she seem ok in the morning? I wonder if she felt better about the whole thing after talking it out in her sleep?
  Oh LOL I was worried one of my kids would be a sleep walker.... my older sister did it at a hotel once when we were little and got stuck in the hall because the door locked behind her!  I was always worried about having one of my kids do the same!

• MissMimi said on Jul 19, 2007....

  I do talk in my sleep.  The only time I said something I shouldn't have that I can remember happened in college.  Seems my now-husband started to cuddle up behind me when I was asleep, and I called him by the wrong name!  Oops.

• beyondtheveil said on Jul 19, 2007....

  mirror- I've never been accused of it, but my wife gives speeches. The last time it happened she was sitting up in bed, eyes wide open, grilling me on when the convention in the living room would be over. I just stared at her in disbelief, she threw up her hands at me like I was an idiot and went back to sleep.
  
  When I told her about it the next morning she laughed till she had tears.
  

• silverwhisper said on Jul 19, 2007....

  OK, i gotta say that i'm still a bit put-off by the bug fascination, MI. :>
  
  i don't generally talk in my sleep, although apparently i do all the other irritating things in my sleep: snore, grind my teeth, turn into a bed hog...
  
  happily, the mrs doesn't talk in her sleep, either. :>
  
  although now that i think about it, i've been told that on very rare occasions i do talk in my sleep. my college roommate swore he heard me screaming at the top of my lungs in another language one night. :>
  
  ed

• Suddenrain said on Jul 19, 2007....

  This is a good post. I talk off and on through the night in my sleep, including having had conversations with my husband. My mother, my daughter and grand daughter also do. Mine are usually conversations defending someone. I don't understand why, but that's what sets my mouth to moving when I sleep and dream. It's always something emotional that makes me talk.

  My mother once drempt she was in the old west and a gunslinger was after her. My dad was getting ready for work and came in and sat down on the edge of the bed. She (in her sleep) said, "Hurry, go get me a banana"! My dad looked at her dumb founded and said blinking, "What for"?  her, "Just go get the damn thing,...hurry up"!!  He kinda chuckled about it realizeing she was sleeping, and went about his business gettin ready for work. Once again he sat down on the edge of the bed and she said, "Did you get the banana"?  He was really amused by now because she was speaking in a whispering tone so he whispered back,.."Yeah I got it."  her.. "give it to me, quick"!!!  He whispered back, "I can't, I ate it."  she yelled back..."YOU DUMB SON-OF-A-BITCH, I HOPE YOU KNOW YOU JUST GOT ME KILLED"!!!!!  My dad cracked up, which woke her up and she proceeded to tell how the gunslinger was lookin for her and she needed the banana peel to trip him so she could conk him on the head with a board and knock him out. It was hilarious! :-D

• Suddenrain said on Jul 19, 2007....

  I forgot to mention, I have been known to eat in my sleep also. I woke up sitting at the table with a bowl of cereal and my husband sitting across from me stareing at me in disbelief. We both laughed about a coversation I was having with him as I ate, about how he should clean the tub out from now on when he shaves his legs. I must've thought he was my sister or something. I have no idea what I was dreaming. We both laughed about it. I do strange things in my sleep alot, like sleeping with one arm held in the air. Kinda scarey. :-/

• mirrorimage said on Jul 19, 2007....

  mimi: oh dear! LOL well, he must have gotten over it for the two you of you to be married now!! What did he say?
   
  beyond: LOL! isn't it funny how that works? Regardless of what is being said YOU are still the idiot?! Shame on you for not realizing there was a convention in the living room!!! :)
   
  Ed: it took a little getting used to! Little boys are something else.....lol.
  There is nothing wrong with being a bed hog.... that is what I happen to do best! :)
  Is English your first language? You might be the only person I have ever met to speak a different language in your sleep! That's classic....LOL
   
  Suddenrain: LMAO! "You dumb son of a bitch..."  Oh I love it!
  My seven year old doesn't talk in his sleep, but he has been known to eat. I always follow him to the kitchen when I hear him because I'm always worried that he will choke. It's weird though...he never wanted anything sweet...very healthy sleep eater!
  I think I would have lost it if I was your husband...LOL I never would have been able to keep my composure with the washing the tub out comment!

• boyzmom said on Jul 19, 2007....

  These stories are funny. My littlest son laughs in his sleep and he sat up and yelled at the wall to move out of his way one time. I was told that I hum in my sleep sometimes. One time, when my oldest was a baby, I thought he was crawling around the bed and was going to fall off, so I sat up and grabbed my ex husband's foot and told him to hold it so the baby doesn't fall. I also dreamt that my sister was shaking the bed when we had an earthquake, I am surprised that I didn't talk in my sleep that time, I was getting really mad at her!

• silverwhisper said on Jul 19, 2007....

  MI: yep, it's my native language. i think my roommate was being goofy, to be honest. i do tend to slur my words when speaking so maybe i was just being exceptionally lazy when sleep-talking? :>
  
  ed

• husbandhater said on Jul 19, 2007....

  As gross as the centerpeide sounds I think it's cute he talks in his sleep. My husband sometimes does it and now I see the little one occassionaly do it.

• evil_twin said on Jul 19, 2007....

  I don't think I talk in my sleep regularly, but I have done it. Usually if I'm not sleeping well, stuff like that happens. Just last week I did this. Natalie got up for a minute, and when she came back in the room, I sat up and asked her, "where is he?" And I was really upset apparently. She asked me, "where is who?" And I told her very animatedly, "my brother!" She then told me he was probably at his house sleeping like a normal person. And I got confused and asked her, "you mean, he's not in the garage?"
  
  I have no idea what I was talking about! But at that point I sort of woke up and was just as confused as she was. I don't even know what I was dreaming about either, but it seemed really important at the time!
  
  By the way, cute story about your son! That made me smile.
  
  -evil_twin LA
  

• mirrorimage said on Jul 19, 2007....

  boyzmom: LOL....i think it's the cutest thing when they are laughing in their sleep. I've tried to talk to him to see if we could have a conversation in his sleep but he completely ignores me.... i guess that's not any different than when he is awake! :) What did your ex say when you grabbed his foot? lol
   
  ed: I slur my words a little bit too and it does get worse when I am tired to that is entirely possible. But, it is much funnier to believe you were speaking in a different language...:) 
   
  hh: i would have expected his sleep talking to be just as quiet as it is when he is awake... but he is so much more animated in his sleep! Uses hand gestures and gets all excited. lol...  has your husband ever mentioned if you do it?
   
  e_t: lol... i guess it's a good thing you were wondering where your brother was and not where the ring was... talk about ruining surprises and things not going as planned!! LMAO!! I crack myself up...
   

• hotaka said on Jul 19, 2007....

  I have been known to mutter incomprehensibly in my sleep. Sometimes I wake up just as I am speaking and I catch myself. I have a friend whose girlfriend once mentioned something about diarrhoea as he cuddled up to her in her sleep and an ex-girlfriend of mine once said to me, "Will you shut up," when I was trying to stifle a bad cough at night. The next morning she said she didn't remember a thing about it but at least understood why I was sleeping on the couch in the morning.

• destinydiva said on Jul 19, 2007....

  I talk loads in my sleep.....   I sleep walk too!!  especially if I have been out and come home a little worse for wear...... when I was staying with my parents I went out one weekend...dont even remember getting home but apparantly I crashed out in bed fully clothed......then an hour later I went in to my mum and dads room stark naked!!!!  and sat on the bed having a conversation with mr nobody!!!!  oooohhhh I'm cringing again at the thought!!!   Did I just type this outloud????   :-)
  
  Destiny x
  
  My ex used to say ...don't tell me then...I'll find out in your sleep!!! I have full conversations....they dont usually make much sense...
  
  I might tape myself one night just out of curiosity :-)
  
  
  

• hotaka said on Jul 19, 2007....

  destinyD, if you ever feel the need to talk to someone when you are starkers then just come on over to my place and I promise I'll be all eyes.

  EARS! I meant ears. Sorry what were you saying?

• uniquely-ironic said on Jul 19, 2007....

  Me and my sibs all talked in our sleep.  My brother and I walked in our sleep.  We had a cousin who made it out of the house and into the street in her sleep.  Both of my kids do both as well.  I have an extra lock on the front door just in case.

  Usually when I talk in my sleep it's just to "solve" a problem that's bothering me.  Any one of us have actually been heard singing in our sleep.

• unassuming said on Jul 19, 2007....

  I am guilty of talking in my sleep, though I am not sure how often I do it anymore.  I can apparently hold full conversations with the S/O and agree to stuff without being conscience of it.  Then I get in trouble when I don't comply and wonder what is going on.  =)  I might snore a bit as well, but I don't really hear much complaints about that.  Usually the biggest complaint out of our bed is that I fall asleep way to fast and can do so while in the middle of a conversation.
  
  I am also told that I did my fair share of sleepwalking back in the day, though not to the extent that my sisters have taken it.  One would have gotten out o the house to go play with a friend at 3 am had the door not been locked.
  
  

• destinydiva said on Jul 19, 2007....

  lol hotaka :-) .....suddenrain your story is a classic!!
  Destiny x
  

• quietone said on Jul 19, 2007....

  I have woke myself up talking. I don't know about what.  My daughter talked and walked in her sleep. she got up one nite, put on a 2nd pair of pjs proceeded into my bedroom took one of my bras and was trying to put it on, on her way out the back door.  I was up and just watched her giggling to myself.  I got up and headed her back to bed. she was 8.

• tizzygirl said on Jul 19, 2007....

  My sister used to talk in her sleep, we once had a conversation where she was repeatedly asking what I did to our Mother.  When I said "nothing" in confusion she then said "Are you sure" in a I don't belive you voice and then asked "who's in the closet then?"  The funniest part is that the closet in the room had no door and was about the size of a shoebox.  I then realized she was asleep so I just said "Ok you caught me, I hid her in there."  She then looked very satisfied and said "Thought so" and she waggled her finger at me then told "mom" to come out of the closet and find the frogs and turned over and fell back asleep.  It was quite humerous I couldn't wait to tell her in the morning.

• boyzmom said on Jul 19, 2007....

  Tizzy- that is funny, I had my sister thinking that she was dreaming a conversation we had once and I couldn't help but laugh when she told me about her dream.

• Tappa said on Jul 19, 2007....

  I often wake myself from dreaming. Usually I'm in a really great story-line, and will be talking (in the dream) and say something weird. Then I interrupt myself and (this is the sleep-talking bit...) usually say out loud "That's fecking ridiculous!" or "That's not right at all!". And it's that rude interruption of myself that wakes me up. Sad thing is, I get p***d off 'cos until then I would have been enjoying the dream story and know I'll not get back into it! Sometimes I dream I'm in a fight, and throw a real punch - that movement wakes me too. (I once punched hubby in my sleep!)

• lalaine1 said on Jul 19, 2007....

  Yes. When I am so tired from work, you can actually speak to me even if I am sleeping. My brother proved that by recording our 10 second conversation.
   
  Not only that, I also do weird stuffs when sleeping after a long day. :p

• Lioness said on Jul 19, 2007....

  Nope. No one has told me I talk in my sleep when me and lil sis were roomates. Though I caught her murmuring at times.. But I can't understand what she's saying. 

• Suddenrain said on Jul 20, 2007....

  Mirror, I don't think I sleep when I sleep. LoL We still talk about that incident and laugh. On occassion, when joking/bickering he'll say "ohhhhh go eat a bowl of Fruitloops"! and I'll come back with..."Go SHAVE YOUR LEGS"! It's comical.

  Destiny, really? My sister thinks it's hilarious.                                                                                       

• dailyachesandpains said on Jul 20, 2007....

  Moms:  I've been trying to get little D to talk in her sleep since I read this...she won't though!  I've been saying her name in a soft whisper and asking her if she wanted to play with the fairies that were dancing in her head, asking her what she's dreaming about, and more!  Last night she opened her eyes and said
  "MOOOOOOMMMMY!  Go to bed and just stop talking all the time!"  LMAO, she showed me! 
   
  Secret:  I talk stupid stuff.  I was caught when I was younger by my Sister while I was talking nonsense.  She came in my room to turn my radio off as I was saying "Mom you ding-a-ling!  You forgot to get tape 38!" 
   
  She started cracking up laughing and when I opened my eyes, words were still coming out of my mouth!  I seriously wanted to put my head through a window...I felt like a total dork!  I have no idea what "tape 38" and I was seriously thanking God I didn't call my Mother something worse.  This sister of mine, she catches all of us talking in our sleep!  She gets the best shows and I always miss them because I'm part of them, lol!
   
  This is going to make me start a post, I can feel it!
   
  {{{HUGS}}}}
  Daily

• mirrorimage said on Jul 20, 2007....

  Sorry for the delay in getting back to all of you!
   
  hotaka: lol.... did he jump out of bed or move away from her when she said that? I think I would have!  
  Was she telling you to shut up over the coughing? Maybe she was a little irritated in her dream! :)
   
  destiny: Oh my goodness!! How embarrassing for you!!! what did your parents say?!  LOL Funny about your boyfriend 'i'll find out in your sleep' Taping yourself is such a good idea.... I would love to hear myself do it...:)
   
  uniquely-ironic: singing? LOL...  maybe you should tape yourself as well! how funny would that be to hear in the morning when you woke up!! The extra lock on the door is a good idea... my parents did that for my sister when she was sleep walking.
   
  unassuming: Does your SO wait until you fall asleep before making the requests? I probably would if my husband had a habit of talking in his sleep! "Don't you remember?? You agreed to this last night...."
   
  quietone: LMAO.... well, at least she had the decency to put a bra on before leaving the house...even if she was only 8 and sound asleep!! I know I have seen more than my fair share of adults that were wide awake and didn't even think to put a bra on before going in public!
   
   

• mirrorimage said on Jul 20, 2007....

  tizzygirl: LOL! "Ok you caught me" that's classic.... I would love to have a conversation with someone like that! My son is the only one that does it on a regular basis and he refuses to even acknowledge that I'm talking to him!
   
   boyzmom: That's pretty funny.... did you tell her?
   
  Tappa: Oh I wait when I wake up during a dream... it's almost impossible for me to get back into it as well! What did your husband say when you punched him?? LOL
   
  lalaine1: My mother made a rule that we were not allowed to talk to her if she had a long shift at the hospital.... she would agree to anything when napping!
   
  lioness: I husband mumbles every now and then...but like your sister, it isn't anything i can ever understand.
   
  suddenrain: LMAO!! that's too much!!
   
  Daily: Oh that's funny!!! LMAO!! maybe she wasn't quite asleep enough!

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