Why do people talk in their sleep?
In scientific terms sleep talking is called as SOMNILOQUY. Many people, mostly 50% children and five percent adults brain confuses and talk in their sleep. Sleep talk occurs in some people may be because of stress, anxiety, having less sleep, unresolved issues, eating in excess exactly before going to bed or it can be due to some unfinished task that has remained in our subconscious. Most people co-relate REM sleep with sleep talking. During rapid eye movement (REM) we have our most memorable dreams but truth is that sleep talking mostly happens in non-REM sleep and at that time our body is experiencing partial paralyses. Sleep talking usually happens during the change in stage of sleep.
It mostly occurs in children because of their immature state of brain and less sleep. It has also been observed that the person is shocked when he comes to know about his talks and behavior during the sleep from the other person because they had totally forgotten everything they talked in sleep.
When we are not in deep sleep there is a very thin difference between conscious and subconscious. At this time person’s brain goes through frightening hallucinations as subconscious is still active. Sleep talking is not harmful but can annoy the person sleeping next to him. Sleep talk may occur in the form of simple muttering, long conversations, aggressive talks etc. but in most of the cases it is calm. Aggression or yelling is seen in very rare cases.
Nobody exactly knows about the reason behind the sleep talk but to stay away from sleep talking one should avoid stress, relax before going to bed and must have the proper amount of sleep.
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i find this information really interesting. i have been sleeptalking ever since i was little and now i am 18 and it still happens.
I’m gonna sleep-talk forever. WOO-HOO
I’ve been sleep talking since i was young. I’m now 20 and i still sleep talk. But now all i do is curse in my sleep and speak violently….
No idea why I’m not a mean person lol
I sleep talk every night and always have, no idea why i do it. But i am told every night of the things i say or scream. i scream a lot i guess? I’ll respond to people in my sleep and not even realize it. I also speak like gibberish in my sleep haha I’ve been told its definitely not english weird…
hi friends
before u sleep first be relax ….cool….then sleep …..before sleeping dont put stress on mind……
I talk in my sleep almost every night and sometimes i even realize that i literally talk. Its really irritating to the person i am sleeping next to cause i have experienced my brother doing the same.The funny thing is, no one has ever heard what i talk about and for that i don’t worry much about talking in my sleep.
i have been sleeptalking a lot recently. my mother and my sister both tell me that i say really strange things. they recall me calling my sister once and saying “here, put ur gun away before u hurt someone” and then they say i gave my sister my hand as if i were giving her a gun. i still question whether they’re lying to me or not. but wat reason would they have to lie?
I am staying with a good friend and if not for her I would be homeless. However, she talks 99% of the night
even though she is not spanish and speaks spanish fluently (never had a lesson and is amazing) she even
speaks in spanish while sleeping. She giggles and carry’s on a full conversation’s. So is there anyone else
who does this? I have to sleep on a mattress on the floor next to her. Not complaining just wondering what
is going on.
Apparently I talk alot while I sleep. I am 39. My question is can people who are not sleeping make you say things that really aren’t true. Like my husband thinks I have like all these boyfriends, I think he pushes me to say things while I’m sleeping, any non talkers try this. By the way I like when I wake up talking, it makes me laugh. The other day I said go put the carrots away.
Is there anyone that knows how to get a person to talk in there sleep? my spouse used to talk in her sleep, when she was an active alcoholic. Also, she was an active drug user and is was hardcore stuff.she used to talk in her sleep all the time, until she went into recovery. now she doesn’t hardly ever talk in her sleep anymore,(not that i’m complaining….lol) but, i feel she is being untrue to us and am hoping that there would be a way to get her to talk about it in her sleep. can anyone help?
Im 13 and i rarely sleep talk but when i do its mostly cuz of lack of sleep. or im home sick or im really sick with the flu or something…… i talk on the phone untill i fall asleep on the other person(i feel safer) but sometimes at night i sleep talk and when then call me in the morning they tell me “why the heck were you bitching at me last night” and i would say ummm i didnt… and we would just fight about it .. then after a while we realized i sleep talk ..
Thanks for the info. Am 21 but still i sleep talk a lot. Most of the things what i speak is exactly what i had spoke in the daytime it seems as my room mate have said me. This may be because of my stress at work i guess. but why do i speak everyday. This is bothering me a lot…….
I never recall sleep walking but the past few weeks have been. I have been extremely tired and my husband tells me I have repeatedly been saying the name “Tim” in my sleep. He is getting very annoyed and thinks there is something behind this. I am not cheating, nor would I ever! I know a few guys named tim but are not close with either of them. My husband is mad and thinks there is more to the story. We have been married for 12 years and have 3 beautiful children. I am very sorry for how I am hurting him but have no clue as to why this is happening and what is the big deal… I tried to reassure him that I don’t have control over what is said when I am sleeping. This doesn’t seem to make him feel better. I’m almost afraid to go to sleep now because I don’t want to hurt him anymore. We have very close friends of ours that are going through infidelity right now and I don’t know if that is clouding his judgment or what? HELP!!!
hmm……….what kind of people talk in their sleep because i read some where that the people that talk in their sleep are INTELLIGENT . Its that true??:p
P.S. Im sorry for my bad english:S…..
I sleep talk and sleep walk but not every night. One night i got up and started walking to the bath room and my bro stopped me and said what the hell are you doing. At that time he woke me up. After that i just looked at him. He said “what the hell are you doing”. I said “taking my contacts out” and then i went back to sleep and the next morning i remember the whole thing so yea that’s whats up.
To anser the person question above, my husband is very Intelligent! Not sure if it has been scientifically proven that Intelligent people talk in their sleep but….stress I believe might be a reason but I am not a doctor.
I caught my husband having an affair by talking in his sleep. He spoke her name and everything in his sleep and then I started checking and by sure amazement he was having an affair. He laughs a lot in his sleep, most of the time it is mumbling but guess this one time it was meant to be for me to find out about the other woman. Yes, I actually stayed. She couldn’t believe that I would catch them by him talking in his sleep. Just was wondering what others had to say about talking in their sleep as well….
omg that is why i am always talking in my sleep! stress!
My dad lost his car keys one day in my childhood. he worked till quite exhausted and was dark then couldnt find them. After recruiting neighbours with lanterns and still no sign at the front of our home he reluctantly gave up. With all options seemingly exhausted my Mum decided to ask us kids, but we had all already gone to sleep. she whispered so as not to wake us, but only get an answer if we were awake. When she asked me (I never recalled this) my SISTER replied – she not even in the same room! Mum went to her and repeated “Linda, do you know where Daddy left his car keys?” As she slept she said “Fence-post, left side of front garden, fifth one along from the side of the house, on top of the post….” Mum went straight out in pitch dark, counted along the fence posts to number five and put her hand straight on them. Later, over some years when we lived in a bigger house still, I had a bedroom on seperate floor from my sister, but my parents from time to time would each stand – one in my room and one in my sisters – and listen to us whispering in our sleep. we were found to be holding coherent conversations, but were inaudible to anyone stood on either landing! As an adult I have been told by several flatmates and one wonderful wife that I speak out loud sometimes while deeply asleep. Often it sounds distinctly German, occaisionally Spanish, but I have no training in either. (I think my sister has). I never recall these events. We are not twins and I am a qualified Scientist with degrees in Zoology and Biochemistry – its hard not to be curious about things like this, I try to keep a reasonable but open mind…..
I have been sleep-talking for years, i’m 17 now and just this morning my brother said he kept hearing me talk and talk. Its quite embarrassigng to hear it, when I never knew i did it. Now I know why i’m sleep talking-because of stress, and excesive eating. I have been depressed for a while because of so many issues. I’m really going to try to sleep better, and eat healthier.
-Georgina
I would really love to know why I talk in my sleep it’s crazy for me ..Help Please!! Thanks
mum says i sleep talk. but when she tells me what i speak, its nothing related to whats happening in my life and nor is it something i thought about. though i mutter out my close friends names. she says i even respond when she asks me questions. i find it very weird. being a teenager, i wouldnt want to spill my secrets, would i?
I have been talking in my sleep since I was very young. My mom have some funny stories to tell and she even wrote down what I said when I was living at home. It was basic ramblings but one could understand the content what it was about. I am now 38 and still talk in my sleep. I sometimes just talk, and sometimes yell. I have scared my hubby more than once and sometimes I have screamed so loud that I woke up myself from the loudness.
About 2 months ago I sleep walked as well (I did it frequently when I was a little girl, but grew out of it) and that really scared me that I had done that, so my doctor is sending me for a sleep study next month. I don’t know if I have sleep walked more than once but it scares me to know that I rearranged things and did things I normally would not do while being awake.
lol my mate talks in his sleep and it is very funny
I have been having some episodes of sleep talking for the past week. This is new to me because My Partner told me about all of the things that i have been saying. I could not believe my ears when I heard some of the things I said. I will try to relax and read a good book before I go to sleep tonight
My dad sleep talks. He usually talks with some body else dont know who is that. Last nignt he was shouthing arrogantly and beat my mother hardly who was lying next to him. We got scared coz his behaviour was not normal. Kindly help if someone know about this arrogant behaviour at nights.Pls friends
wow.
i began sleep talking last year actually and i’m only 15.
i began to worry about this trouble after i woke up saying no at around 3:00-4:30am today.
that probably happened because the dream felt so real.
at some point i felt my leg shaking when i was sleeping.
Now I am 18. I speak when I am sleeping. I don’t know why, may be bcoz of so many issues in my mind or secrets . But it distrubs my friends and then they distrubs my sleep by slaping me. Please anyone give solution for this
I sleep talk but only when i am not in my own house!
why is that?
I have always been a silent sleeper and never really done anything out of the ordinary. i know there are a few times where i have said like one word but rarely. anyways most people who sleep in the same room with me in the past have actually commented on how they thought i was dead bc once i got into a position i seemed to like i wouldnt move at all and you wouldn be able to hear my breathing either.
well now i’m in college and my roommate commented a lot during my first term at how i would talk in my sleep. she thought maybe it was bc i just wasnt used to my new home yet (i’m no longer in my home country)..and i would periodically ask her what was new ya know and she said a few weeks ago that i hadnt spoken in my sleep that shes noticed at all or rarely. until the other day that is when i very politely asked her to turn the light back off. i dont even have a problem with the light!! and she knows this bc we’ve had that conversation.
i know yall say its bc of stress but idk,while i really should have all the reason to stress right now, im not. i havent been. i mean ive been takin things seriously dont get me wrong. but i have not been extremely worried. back in highschool i was always stressing, i’d have fun and what not but that would just cause me more stess in the long run. thats how my family was. stress mongrels.
so i’ve been happy to be away from them.
and as amusing as this all is, its quite annoyin.
i would just like to get to the bottom of it all and then quit.
I experienced SOMNILOQUY almost every night.. may i just ask, is the thing/statement that I’ve said while sleeping is true??? I mean does it really connected to me or does i really experience it???
I can’t answer this on my own because i don’t know if I’ve already experienced it wen i was a child and suddenly forgot it or i just said some things because of fatigue..
Please help me
I do speak in dreams this recent months, but I don’t actually remember that i speak before getting married? Last night i speak a lot in dreams, it was like i was talking very loudly “Ok every thing will be fine”. Last few days before i was speaking as if I’m talking with some person in front of me. but i have not taken this think very seriously and why should I if there is no harm only my partner gets disturbed thats it…
i sleep talk all the time.
ive shouted for help alot of times, especially when im about to go away somewhere.
i dont know about it but my friends and family tell me about it as they can hear me throughout the night.
im known to yell and shout i dont know if its bad or not?
i’m 15 and i just found out i’ve been sleeptalking since i was little! my friends mentioned it when i was on a school trip and when i asked my dad he said i’d been doing it for ages- i had no idea. it seems really weird that i’ve been doing things and not known.
OMG, I’m 15 and I’m like really into this guy, but none of my friends know. So I went to a sleepover with all of my friends, and I ended up sleep talking. So as soon as I woke up they were like, “You like Collin?” Way embarrassing! Is there like a way that I can stop it? Preferably before summer, because I’ve got to go to summer camp and I don’t really want any of my roomies to find anything out! PLEASE HELP!
I have recently been sleep talking and I never talked in my sleep. I caught myself the other night talking and woke up . I honestly think it is because of lack of sleep. I have been working alot and not sleeping as much. My husband noticed the first time it happened and I could not remeber.