Do you talk in your sleep?

[SarahB]

I do and it's not a good thing at times. Especially if I try to kiss people when I'm sleeping, say the wrong think apparently, have no memory of it, and then I'm not told what it is. :shrug:

The subconscious mind sucks rotten eggs. Wish I could shut it off.

[ewagner]

1. Not a good thing.......

reminds me of that old, old Elvis song: If you talk in your sleep, forget my name.

I suppose the only way to stop it is to concentrate on something much more benign before going to bed........

[SarahB]

2. I know that song.

Yep I do.

[ewagner]

7. LOL

Sarah, dear, you ARE a treat! :)

[SarahB]

12. Yeah, well....

I'm all that and a bag of chips.



Yo!
Now, if only weirdos I wouldn't be interested in anyway would stop trying to pick me up in the grocery store, but that's another story.

[FlaGranny]

3. I do occasionally, but

my husband says he can never understand what I'm saying. I'm sort of conscious of it when it's happening and it happens while I'm dreaming. The last time I was being chased by a ghost and I was saying (or trying to say) "go away, leave me alone." I can still remember it several months later. In the dream, the first couple of times I tried to say it, I couldn't make a sound. Then I finally got it out, sounding like I was a drunk with a mouth full of marbles. I believe that was what my husband heard, but couldn't understand. It's a weird feeling, but I believe that every time I talk in my sleep I actually remember it and know I was talking out loud.

[eyesroll]

4. I don't think I talk when I'm truly sleeping, but I do when I'm

lightly sleeping. (I've said inappropriate things in that state, too -- calling people by the wrong names -- not even Freudian, just wrong, because my mind thinks I'm somewhere else -- like still at work or back in high school or whatever.)

My bigger sleep problem is that, again when sleeping lightly, I see bugs, mice, or spider webs. Tons and tons, in areas where we don't get bugs, mice or spider webs. (If I was sleeping in the basement, or under the kitchen sink, then I'd expect them.) I then wake up fully, and they're still there for a minute.

Weird thing is, I'm not particularly afraid of bugs or mice. I don't like handling them, but it's more an "ick" factor than anything.

[sus]

5. last time i talked in my sleep, i was told i said..

"maybe the Mexicans will save us"

[Beware the Beast Man]

6. Yes, and I laugh, too

I can tell when I am talking in my sleep, because, when I am dreaming, I will start off saying something coherent (in the dream) and then the conversation turns to mush. It's when I have mush-mouth that I know when I am talking.

[HEyHEY]

8. Talk? No. Yell? Yes.

I have woken myself and the house up numerous times by yelling in my sleep.

[SarahB]

11. My boys do that sometimes.

It's really freaky. My oldest son used to have night terrors when he was little so badly that he'd run around the room. My husband sleepwalks at times.

I also suffer on and off from insomnia.

Funny too. My husband's new job is the manager of a sleep lab at a hospital and we have all this sleep junk around here. It's like the old line: "Physician (well, he's not a physician, but the line works), heal thyself."

[ucmike]

9. i don't, but...

my ex gf did. she was adopted from china as a kid, but really young. she grew up in NJ, speaking suburban english like the rest of the kids. her chinese was limited to ordering from the menu at Golden Wok.

i was laying next to her late one night, she was dead asleep and turned to me and spoke chinese for about 30 seconds, then went back to sleep.

she woke up in the morning and had no idea, she couldn't remember any of it.

[pagerbear]

10. I have no one to tell me if I do.

:-(

[SarahB]

13. You will though...

Just a matter of time. You're a good guy who has a lot to offer and I'm sure there's some nice dude is out there who will see it soon. Decent people generally don't stay alone forever.

[pagerbear]

14. You're so sweet!

[SarahB]

15. Thanks.

I try anyway. :D

[AlFrankenFan]

16. I do too much

I woke myself saying these things:
"General Lee, ready the army!"
"This job is menial."
"Yes of course I love you, but you're a Republican!"

And other things. I've also said "fuck off" and woke up screaming, or screaming words like "Don't sit on me, Rush!"

[GirlinContempt]

17. I do SOMETHING in my sleep, apparently

But its not talking

[LincolnMcGrath]

18. Ex used to say I laughed occasionally

:shrug:

[Nikia]

19. Yes

I've said some pretty weird things too that I wouldn't have said or even thought of while I was conscious.
One Christmas, my husband asked me what I got him for Christmas while I was asleep, and I told him.
I don't always tell the truth. I have lied in my sleep to protect myself. For example, my mother used to ask me whether or not I brushed my teeth and I always told her yes even if I really didn't.

[AngryAmish]

20. Sleepwalker/Sleeptalker here

Done some really embarassing things. Not fun.

[camero]

21. I'm told I do

I was yakking something about groceries last week and some time ago a friend told me how I told a real good story in my sleep but never finished it.

The mind is weird.

[put out]

22. I say stupid things.

Don't feel bad or let anyone else try to make you feel bad. I fall asleep to infomercials and then dream and talk about skin care mixed up with animal rights and this chartreuse thing which doesn't hug around your hips which is bad and the machine I can have for three months before I make a down payment interest free and this will make me to be Venus Williams if I only use it thirty minutes a day.

Hell, no one is responsible for what they say in their sleep. It's just random firings, and I haven't read anything reliable which might link it to deep subconscious feelings. It can be pretty funny if a sleeping person is on a roll and you can try to engage them in conversation. They say all kinds of nonsense and finally they lose patience with you for not understanding this profound point they are trying to convey. Which can have something to do with your sister and paper towels and replacing the step railing.

Do you ever wake yourself, saying something which made perfect sense, only to find you were babbling random words? I've kissed a partner and called him by the name of my beloved second grade teacher.

My thing is don't worry, and don't make some other person cause you guilt.

[tigereye]

23. been told that I sing and laugh

[Spirochete]

24. Yes, but

only to people in Melbourne. My phone bill last month was $1635.71.
hehe

[TOhioLiberal]

25. I don't...

...But my husband does. In fact if he's asking a question, I usually give him some kind of bizarre answer, in order to send his dreams off on a wild tangent. :evilgrin:

[YellowRubberDuckie]

26. Apparently if I'm talking in my sleep....

Skip says he can talk to me and figure out what I'm dreaming about because I talk back. And he'll do the same thing. It's fun. What he really likes is when I'm having a dream about sex and I attack him in my sleep.
Duckie