Talking in your sleep :D

backslashbaby · Nov 9, 2010

I love whacky sleep stories, and I got a huge kick out of one this morning.

I can carry on conversations in my sleep that I never remember later. In the morning, I am known to lie very convincingly on the phone about whatever anyone is asking me. Seriously, people have to give me hard math problems to tell whether I'm really awake or not.

This morning, my dad was up my way and was buying donuts. He called to ask if I wanted some, and what kind.

Apparently, I really wanted coroner donuts. He thought maybe I'd said 'corner' donuts, but I corrected him rather bitchily that of course I meant 'coroner' donuts. Duh.

One of my WIPs involves a murder investigation :ROFL:

brainstorm77 · Nov 9, 2010

Apparently I do this a lot... Or so I've been told.

Adam · Nov 9, 2010

brainstorm77 said:
Apparently I do this a lot... Or so I've been told.

More "random sounds" than "talking," most of the time.

brainstorm77 · Nov 9, 2010

Adam said:
More "random sounds" than "talking," most of the time.

Oh! Even better. Thanks for sharing. :poke:

Adam · Nov 9, 2010

Lol! You started it.

brainstorm77 · Nov 9, 2010

I'm surprised this is the first thread I've even seen at AW on this topic.

Perks · Nov 9, 2010

backslashbaby said:
This morning, my dad was up my way and was buying donuts. He called to ask if I wanted some, and what kind.

Apparently, I really wanted coroner donuts. He thought maybe I'd said 'corner' donuts, but I corrected him rather bitchily that of course I meant 'coroner' donuts. Duh.

One of my WIPs involves a murder investigation

Lol! Coroner donuts.

My sister is the queen of weird random sleep outbursts. Once she walked into my room, from her room, to yell, "Jamie, what's your big, fat problem?!" at me while I was asleep.

At a sleepover, she sat up suddenly, scaring us all from our sleeping bags to announce, "And that was the other poem I was telling you about."

But my alltime favorite was waking her up from where she'd been sleeping on the tv room floor. (We had been watching a movie and she'd dozed off.) She got up, dashed to the laundry room door, bent waaaaay over at the waist in slow motion and tapped, very softly, near the bottom of the door.

When I asked her what she was doing, she said, "But you said... you said... awww, forget it." Then she curled up at the bottom of the door and went back to sleep.

She hadn't been drinking. She was only about ten years old. Lol!

Perks · Nov 9, 2010

And I used to sleep walk. I would get up and unplug electrical appliances. Once I woke up with my dresser drawers emptied around me, folding stuff back in. Once I woke up in the closet, wound up like a mummy in my bedsheet. Didn't like that one at all.

The last time I walked in my sleep, it was a classic horror movie thing. Normally, once I finally woke up I'd be able to nail down some vague remembrance of how I got there. But this last time was maybe nine years ago. I woke up and pulled back the bedcovers and saw dirt on the sheets at the bottom. My feet were dirty. My shoes were in the wrong place. (I'm very tidy and always put things in the same spot. I think I'm convinced on some level that I'll go blind one day.)

Anyway, that was weird enough, but later that day, my raging alcoholic neighbor told me that he'd seen my sister on the deck at about 5am as he was going to bed. Problem was, my sister wasn't visiting at the time.

Eeeep.

I have no idea what I did that night.

Jersey Chick · Nov 9, 2010

One time, I was dreaming about seeing Jerry Seinfeld in his stand-up comedy days. I woke up laughing hysterically - I mean like, my sides ached from laughing so hard kind of hysterical. I couldn't remember what it was that was so funny, but man, I was laughing so hard I was crying.

shyne · Nov 9, 2010

I laugh in my sleep quite a bit.

cray · Nov 9, 2010

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quickWit · Nov 9, 2010

cray's wife talks in her sleep sometimes.

Wayne K · Nov 9, 2010

My sister sings in her sleep......badly

backslashbaby · Nov 9, 2010

Perks said:
And I used to sleep walk. I would get up and unplug electrical appliances. Once I woke up with my dresser drawers emptied around me, folding stuff back in. Once I woke up in the closet, wound up like a mummy in my bedsheet. Didn't like that one at all.

The last time I walked in my sleep, it was a classic horror movie thing. Normally, once I finally woke up I'd be able to nail down some vague remembrance of how I got there. But this last time was maybe nine years ago. I woke up and pulled back the bedcovers and saw dirt on the sheets at the bottom. My feet were dirty. My shoes were in the wrong place. (I'm very tidy and always put things in the same spot. I think I'm convinced on some level that I'll go blind one day.)

Anyway, that was weird enough, but later that day, my raging alcoholic neighbor told me that he'd seen my sister on the deck at about 5am as he was going to bed. Problem was, my sister wasn't visiting at the time.

Eeeep.

I have no idea what I did that night.

Perks, I'm so glad you were familiar with this phenomenon before you met me

Perks and I shared a hotel room for a writer's conference, as complete strangers.

It was an absolute blast! Except for the embarrassing fact that I screamed loudly at her in my sleep for getting up in the night :e2smack:

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I think I'd warned you of my eccentricities

Jess Haines · Nov 9, 2010

I have a friend who would have entire conversations with you in her sleep. She'd answer questions and everything.

She's surprisingly easy to get blackmail material out of...

Jessianodel · Nov 9, 2010

I don't think I sleepwalk, but my brother used to. Once my dad caught him, in his soccer uniform, with his soccer ball, walking outside to "go to a game". It was in the middle of the night!

Perks · Nov 9, 2010

backslashbaby said:
Perks, I'm so glad you were familiar with this phenomenon before you met me

Perks and I shared a hotel room for a writer's conference, as complete strangers.

It was an absolute blast! Except for the embarrassing fact that I screamed loudly at her in my sleep for getting up in the night .

Do you know, I actually totally forgot about that until just this second. God, I'm laughing so hard now. You scared the shit out of me.

brainstorm77 · Nov 9, 2010

quickWit said:
cray's wife talks in her sleep sometimes.

Sophia · Nov 9, 2010

I haven't sleepwalked since I was a child (that I know of), and I think I was told that I'd done it a couple of times then. Once, when I was very young, I had apparently got up from the open living room at my relatives' house where several of us were sleeping, walked to the fountain in the middle of the courtyard and had climbed up on to the edge, before one of my aunts or uncles finally stopped chuckling and decided they ought to turn me around at that point.

Hubby reports me suddenly saying nonsensical things to him in the night, before falling asleep again while he's left scratching his head, but it's rare enough to be a source of amusement rather than irritation, fortunately.

backslashbaby · Nov 9, 2010

Perks said:
Do you know, I actually totally forgot about that until just this second. God, I'm laughing so hard now. You scared the shit out of me.

Cella · Nov 9, 2010

quickWit said:
cray's wife talks in her sleep sometimes.

in your dreams...

Devil Ledbetter · Nov 9, 2010

My 9-year-old has always talked in his sleep. He doesn't just talk though, he makes big statements in a profound, authoritative tone. I don't know how many times I've awakened thinking who is he arguing with?

Jax3683 · Nov 9, 2010

I've been known to hold entire conversations in my sleep :Shrug:

kayleamay · Nov 9, 2010

My husband whimpers in his sleep. He swears this didn't start until he married me.

imagoodgurl4 · Nov 9, 2010

Haha, my cousin Jack used to talk in his sleep. We all grilled him one night and he told us about his crush on Rebecca Romijn Stamos, and he though he was Spiderman and tried to climb my brother's bedroom wall.

Then, once, we were on a family vacation and stayed at my dad's friend's house and I must have slept walked because my dad came into the bathroom and found me sleeping on the bathroom floor and when he tried to wake me up, I yelled, "Somebody's in here!"

Then, my friend and former college roommate once told me that when she got up in the middle of the night to use the bathroom, I was asleep in my bed and my legs were straight up in the air. I didn't believe her and so she waited the next night and took a photo of it and showed it to me. Indeed, I am asleep on my back with my legs straight up in the air. Kinda funny and we laugh about it all the time, lol.

Talking in your sleep :D

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