Sleep Talking

What is sleep talking? Has anyone ever accused you of sleep talking? Or should I say talking in your sleep. However you word it, it pretty much means the same thing. Way back when people used to think sleep talking had other worldly connotations. Some people were accused of being possesed by the devil or spirits. Some people thought it was a supernatural premonition of some sort. Well, for the most part we know better now, at least most of us do.

Sleep talking is the utterence of speech or sounds without awareness of the event. Sometimes you can even hold conversations with someone who is sleep talking. Some of the symptoms of sleep talking are speech or utterances during sleep. Sleep talking episodes are not associated with awareness of talking. Sleep recordings show episodes of sleep talking that can occur in any stageof sleep. It can be associated with other health disorders such as, psychiatric, anxiety, as well as other sleep disorders like sleepwalking, sleep apnea, or REM sleep behavior disorder.

Nobody really knows why sleep talking is so common, especially among children. Some experts believe certain factors in our lives have something to do with sleep talking. What some people think are common causes of sleep talking are lack of sleep, stress, fever, extreme distress or even pain or sever trauma. Again nobody is really sure what causes sleep talking, but it is an interesting phenomonon.

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