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Do you talk in your sleep?

Asked by jonsblond (44203points) February 11th, 2009 from iPhone

What is the most outrageous thing that you have said in your sleep? Does your SO talk in their sleep? What’s the most memorable thing that they said?

My daughter does all the time. She was giggling in her sleep this morning, like someone was tickling her. so cute!

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blondie411's avatar

My boyfriend says I laugh sometimes. Sometimes he says I’ll say a word, but he can’t tell what it is because he can’t figure out if he’s dreaming or not. Oh well unsolved mystery.

cak's avatar

Evidently, I mumble. My husband will have a full-on conversation. My daughter sleeps like the dead and my son will giggle, wiggle and say a few words here and there – pretty darn cute.

jbfletcherfan's avatar

Oh, God, I hope not, LOL. But I, too, wake up laughing sometimes.

dynamicduo's avatar

My mom said I once came into her room sleeptalking about how my cat had mittens on.

aprilsimnel's avatar

No, I don’t. I am a log when I sleep.

Divalicious's avatar

I work in my sleep. I seem to keep misplacing inmates (thankfully, only in my sleep!) and giving orders. I don’t dare keep my weapon in the bedroom because of my sleep talking/walking.

Jayne's avatar

Apparently I started talking about firetrucks once. But I was considerably under a decade old at that point, so it’s not that odd. My sister, according to legend, once sleepwalked to my parents’ bed and held an animated argument with my rather confused mother.

Dog's avatar

Our twins have conversations- but it is all random and disconnected.

I have been told I talk in my sleep but have no idea what I said

DeanV's avatar

“Would you like chicken? OR A RIB?”
Just like that.

I guess i was dreaming i was a waiter.
I woke everybody but myself up, too.

poofandmook's avatar

I apparently started yelling at my boyfriend to “PUT IT ON THE GODDAMN TABLE!” once, and I’ll never forget the time my ex woke up, shot up in bed, slapped my arm, and said, “Get up! There’s a TWISTER coming!”

Judi's avatar

my first husband woke me up, and in the middle of an intimate moment said, “Judi? Is that you?” Can you get ticked off at someone for cheating on you with you?

andrew's avatar

I do. here’s a story:

I was sleeping in my college girlfriend’s bed—one of those long twins (how did we ever manage that?!). In the middle of the night I sat straight up, looked over to the far corner of the room, and started saying “Go away! Get OUT of here! Shoo! Go!”—very exasperatingly. My gf asked me who I was talking to. As I laid back down, I waved my hand dismissively at the corner and said (as if the answer were obvious) “Oh, that rat dog”.

I have absolutely no recollection of this.

I’m surprised that so many people giggle. Never in my life have I giggled in my sleep. Ever.

Judi's avatar

@Divalicious; my first job was working the night shift in a nursing home and when I slept I used to think that it must be time for someone to come and turn me over. (We had to “turn” the patients every 2 hours.) I’m glad I’m not the only person who works in their sleep!

jonsblond's avatar

@andrew Imagine having to share a super single waterbed with a pregnant wife. blondesjon and I did, terrible! :)

kullervo's avatar

My brother in law takes it further and can have a conversation with you in his sleep. He also can’t lie so he used to get busted for all sorts when his mum would ask him things while he slept.

I don’t talk in my sleep but I have the habit of saying my own name when I think of something I have done that I shouldn’t have. My wife knows this so makes me tell her what it was whenever she hears me call myself. eek!

poofandmook's avatar

I once had an online conversation over AOL when I was in high school, entirely in my sleep.

futurelaker88's avatar

sometimes I wake myself up yelling something from a dream that i remember! like if im mad at someone in my dream, ill wake up being like “STOP!!!” lol then i laugh at myself and go back to bed

Zaku's avatar

Yes, I say things from often-surreal dream situations fairly often. When questioned, I may back them up, e.g.:

“It’s a waffle.”
“It is?”
“It’s a waffle! It’s waffle-shaped.”

Others seem to do this too. It’s funny how suddenly some people can fall asleep and get into a dream context, so I wouldn’t’ve thought she had time to fall asleep when she starts with something from another time, place, or universe: (“We’ll need a hook and ladder.” she suddenly asserts with confidence from her curled up position under my arm.)

The most outrageous I remember doing at the moment was yelling “NO!” and attacking an empty space next to the bed, to destroy the lurking shadow spectre I was sure was there, then rushing to turn on the light to prevent its escape. May have something to do with the time I woke up roaring like a lion at the burglar coming through the window by my hotel bed… who really was there, but left very quickly.

imhellokitty's avatar

@futurelaker88 – woke myself before too, yelling at my grandkids to get in the house because there was a bear in the front yard. What a hoot!

nebule's avatar

I don’t think very often…but when i do i usually grunt random words just as i’m about to drop off and wake myself up – it’s so attractive i would imagine!

miasmom's avatar

I’m a sleeptalker and a sleepwalker, although I don’t do too much sleepwalking anymore. Usually if I am talking it is because of a reoccuring nightmare where there is a spider coming at me, a big spider, I usually sit up and scream and try to get out of the way of the spider, then I’m usually embarrassed because I realize I was sleeping and their was nothing there.

Once when I was little (3rd grade?), we were on vacation at a hotel and we had gotten donuts for breakfast, well my mom hears me in the middle of the night at the donut box, she comes over and asks me what I’m doing. I tell her I’m getting my donut, she tells me to go back to sleep, it’s the middle of the night, I don’t really remember that.

Strauss's avatar

I don’t think I do. I stayed up one night to find out and I didn’t hear myself say a thing!

Nimis's avatar

I used to wake up yelling at my brother all the time.
Apparently, I’m still quite angry with him.

On less stressful days, I’ve been known to giggle in my sleep.

I do talk in my sleep, but my SO doesn’t understand the language I’m speaking.
So I don’t know what I’m actually saying most of the time.

Whenever my SO talks in their sleep, it’s incredibly entertaining.
They speak perfectly clearly and will respond to your questions.
I’ve been known to pull up a chair for a mid-slumber interview.

Maybe I should start a dream journal for them.
But it would be in a really peculiar interview format.

Judi's avatar

@Nimis; They? More than one SO?

Allie's avatar

I’ve only been told I talk in my sleep once. I was napping at a friends house and he told me I said something like “He’s not invited.” When I woke up he asked me who I was talking about and I had no clue what he was referring to.

Nimis's avatar

@Judi: Nope. Just the one!

tiffyandthewall's avatar

apparently i laugh/giggle in my sleep.
i’ve been told by 2 or 3 friends and they were all like freaked out haha. i think it would scare me too if i were them, to hear someone giggling in the dark at like 3am.

jonsblond's avatar

I don’t think that I have ever giggled in my sleep. I have had some terrible dreams that made me cry in my sleep. They woke me up and I had tears going down my cheek. :(

Bluefreedom's avatar

My wife doesn’t talk in her sleep but she has told me that I have done it several times. The weirdest thing she said she ever heard me saying in my sleep was me reciting the Miranda Rights.

Blondesjon's avatar

jonsblond told me I was giggling and air humping in my sleep one night.

—i’m not a talker…i SNORE

90s_kid's avatar

I do not talk, but I might laugh, because I wake up laughing. Don’t ask me why, because when I wake up and my brain gets the slap to the cerebellum, I can’t even remember what the hell I was laughing at. Whatever…

mjchatter's avatar

I know I did when I was a kid – I once sat up in bed, whacked my dad with my hand and said “take me to my locker”. And I know that I LAUGH in my sleep because I woke up my most recent ex laughing hysterically.

MacBean's avatar

I laugh in my sleep a lot. My mother told me about it when I spent a whole summer sleeping on the couch in the living room instead of in my bedroom because it was too hot upstairs.

I also talk in my sleep. A lot of the time as I’m waking up I hear myself spouting random word salad. But for a while I recorded myself at night to see if I said anything interesting. Here are a couple of my favorites, because I woke up and had NO IDEA what was happening in my dreams or whatever:

- “Hm. Mrf. Mmm… Sloooooowly. [chuckle] I have plenty… [several seconds of silence] Are you sure that it’s broken? [slight pause, short laugh, another pause, another chuckle] It’ll be, like, 10:30 tonight and we’ll all look at the clock and be like, ‘Where’s Megan?’ [laugh!]”

- “Mmm. Yeah, I’ve seen. I don’t… Um. Like, when you see a deer hit… [pause] Mm.”

- “You put the wrong end in your mouth, didn’t you? [laugh!]”

Jack79's avatar

nope, but I snore sometimes, does that count?

tiffyandthewall's avatar

oh, i talked in my sleep once, but i don’t really know if i was sleeping or not – like, i remember being half awake and saying it and then going back to sleep again – my friend and i were watching a The Used dvd, and bert was talking somewhere during it when i fell asleep, and i remember being like, “what…why is bert…is he outside? tell him to shut up…tired” or something.
i feel like i’ve told this already on here, but i just thought about it again haha

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