Do You Talk In Your Sleep?

[AGBF]

OK. This could be a, "You know you've been on Pricescope for too long when..." thread. That is because as soon as this incident happened, I knew I had to get out of bed (although it was 3:00 AM) and write about it on Pricescope before I fell back to sleep and forgot it happened!

I would prefer to make it another thread, however. One about talking in your sleep. I think it would be more interesting. I'll tell you my story, which had me laughing outloud in bed. Then you tell me your stories. I talk (and scream and make speeches) in my sleep all the time, by the way. I have a very stressful life!!!

In my dream I was walking out of some kind of park with a lot of other people. It seemed as if some event had ended. Suddenly a very large, tall, muscular man ran to block anyone else from exiting through an arched area into another area. He shouted that if he couldn't go (into the next area, no one could go). At that point I realized that some desirable event was happening beyond the arched exit. Not everyone leaving the exit was going to this desirable event. I had not even been aware of it. This large man grabbed his wife and kept her beside him. I realized I had a large, muscular man beside me, but that he was not the equal of the man blocking the arch. As we approached the arch the man beside me started to challenge the other man physically. At which point I suddenly found my voice. I shouted (at the bigger, blocking) man (thereby dating myself), "Who do you think you are? The Shah of Iran? Do you even know where Iran is?"

Then came a tiny, little girl's voice in reply, "In America?"

Of course the voice woke me up. As often happens, my screaming had awakened my daughter, who is actually 20, no longer a little girl, but who sleeps with me for emotional comfort. In her sleep she sounded just the way she did at around 5, however, and was clearly trying to answer the question correctly. So I asked her again if she knew where Iran was, not sure that she had been awake the first time. She didn't, so I told her. Then I said I'd have to show her on a globe. Then she fell back to sleep and I started to laugh. I laughed at the idea of a mother crazed by stress and a love of geography, telling her daughter where Iran was in the middle of the night.

So...do you talk in your sleep?

Deb/AGBF

 

[Missy]

LOL that's hysterical Deb! What a complex dream. And I love that you are always the nurturing mom!

My mind is complicated too and I have the weirdest dreams but unlike you I forget them almost immediately after waking up. Like this morning I woke up and remembered what a crazy dream I had and less than a minute later I could not recall much about it at all. Next time I'm going to immediately write down whatever I can remember because my dreams are nutty. And yes, my dh tells me I do (occasionally) talk in my sleep. Sometimes laughing even. Kooky!

 

[yennyfire]

Me!

DH tells me that I do, but he won't ever tell me what I say...probably recounting the laundry list of stuff that's running thru my head!

Nothing as interesting as you AGBF!!

 

[diamondringlover]

I apparently do, my hubby says sometimes I have quite a party...apparently I laugh really loud, mutter stuff and hit the bed with my hands..laughing the whole time...

 

[tuffyluvr]

Um, yeahhhh... Usually it's just laughing or mumbling, but a couple years ago, during a stressful time in my life, I sat straight up in bed and screamed--like, a terrible blood-curdling we're-all-going-to-die kind of scream and then began saying, "there's someone in the house! A man was standing in the doorway!". Yeah... Super mellow. FI, who thought it was real, of course, ran around the house trying to find the "man" to kick his a$$. About a minute later I realized that it was all a dream and started bawling because I was so scared and I felt so terrible for freaking out FI.

I also become very, ummm, animated when I take Ambien. I'm not sure if it could exactly be considered sleep talking--it's more like some kind of weird blackout--but I walk, talk, and become extremely sexual. I have (apparently) FaceTime'd FI at work (he works 24hr shifts) and put on *quite* a show. When he told me the next day what i was doing i was SO mortified. I didn't even believe him that I had called--I thought I went to sleep hours earlier, but he told me to check my call log... Low and behold, I had! It does not sound like anything I would ever do. I have nicknamed "that girl" the "Ambien slut". I try not to take Ambien at all, but if I am having an especially bad bout of insomnia I make sure to only take it if FI is home so he can monitor me to ensure that I don't drive or wander out of the house!!!

 

[AGBF]

Um, yeahhhh... Usually it's just laughing or mumbling, but a couple years ago, during a stressful time in my life, I sat straight up in bed and screamed--like, a terrible blood-curdling we're-all-going-to-die kind of scream and then began saying, "there's someone in the house! A man was standing in the doorway!". Yeah... Super mellow. FI, who thought it was real, of course, ran around the house trying to find the "man" to kick his a$$. About a minute later I realized that it was all a dream and started bawling because I was so scared and I felt so terrible for freaking out FI.

I also become very, ummm, animated when I take Ambien. I'm not sure if it could exactly be considered sleep talking--it's more like some kind of weird blackout--but I walk, talk, and become extremely sexual. I have (apparently) FaceTime'd FI at work (he works 24hr shifts) and put on *quite* a show. When he told me the next day what i was doing i was SO mortified. I didn't even believe him that I had called--I thought I went to sleep hours earlier, but he told me to check my call log... Low and behold, I had! It does not sound like anything I would ever do. I have nicknamed "that girl" the "Ambien slut". I try not to take Ambien at all, but if I am having an especially bad bout of insomnia I make sure to only take it if FI is home so he can monitor me to ensure that I don't drive or wander out of the house!!!

Wow! Scaring your fiancé because you didn't know that it was a dream immediately is amazing! But I hadn't thought about Ambien when I started this thread!

I had a psychotherapy client who did wild things on it, and years later I read an article in, "The New York Times" that people were actually walking the streets and driving while asleep and on Ambien! My client used to report that he'd come down to his kitchen and see he'd had another "Ambien party". There would be used and semi-used (with melthing ice cream) half gallon containers of ice cream all over his kitchen as well as other food. But ice cream was his food of choice while asleep, and he made no effort to eat it in a regulated way or to put it away or clean it up, either!

Great stories, tuffyluvr!

Hugs,
Deb

 

[AGBF]

LOL that's hysterical Deb! What a complex dream. And I love that you are always the nurturing mom!

I don't know about that, missy, but thank you anyway!

Hugs,
Deb

 

[AGBF]

Me!

DH tells me that I do, but he won't ever tell me what I say...probably recounting the laundry list of stuff that's running thru my head!

Nothing as interesting as you AGBF!!

I am sure any list in your head is interesting, yennyfire! You probably just don't want to make it public!!!

Hugs,
Deb

 

[AGBF]

I apparently do, my hubby says sometimes I have quite a party...apparently I laugh really loud, mutter stuff and hit the bed with my hands..laughing the whole time...

Now that's the kind of sleeping partner no one minds having, diamondrnglover!!! I'm the kind that gets kicked out of bed!

Hugs,
Deb

 

[JewelFreak]

It sounds great to have a party in your sleep -- fun & no cleaning up afterward. The Ambien stories are scary -- I've read about the antics it can cause. Love your sleeping geography lesson, Deb! Wonder what brought Iran into the picture?

DH tells me I talk in my sleep, usually mumbling stuff he can't understand. In my first apartment after college in NYC, those huge cockroaches used to stroll through occasionally -- & I am a bug-a-phobe, hate hate insects, especially big ones. Since then, for 30 years, I've had nightmares about those darned waterbugs. Poor DH is shot off the bed from a sound sleep when I yell HELP! HELP!, dreaming about those suckers.

I had one job where I did not speak much English during the day, mostly spoke Italian, French, or Spanish with our clients. Went on a trip with my mother during that time & woke her up yakking in my sleep. What did I say? I asked, dreading that it was naughty. "I don't know," said my mom, "It was in French." Cracked me up -- thank goodness!

We had conversations with my little sister when she was asleep -- she started talking; you could ask her a question & she'd answer something totally zany. My brother & I used to carry it on as long as we could; it got funnier & funnier. She never remembered a thing!

--- Laurie

 

[AprilBaby]

I talk all the time, total nonsense. One night I woke hubby up because I saw bouncing blueberries all over the bed. Had to catch them all. I take trips, I talk to non existant people. When I was a kid, the parents put cowbells on the front door as I would get up about 2am, get dressed, eat breakfast and leave for school. Bells would let them know I was leaving.

 

[diamondringlover]

When I was a kid, the parents put cowbells on the front door as I would get up about 2am, get dressed, eat breakfast and leave for school. Bells would let them know I was leaving.[/quote]

my oldest son used to do that, we caught him one night walking down the sidewalk in his underwear, he was around 8, we put a extra lock on the front door up high, thankfully he never did that again!