Talk:Sleep-talking

Dream stories

I remember a few years back I was reading on Wikipedia about a guy who narrated his dreams aloud while he slept. His stories were apparently very bizarre, and both audio recordings and transcripts were made available. Does anyone know who this is?? Psychlohexane (talk) 05:24, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

Edgar Casey Might be who you are thinking of, he was a sleeping prophet.

dream talking - runs in families?

I know when I was young and my sister and I shared a room we often talked to each other in our sleep. Our mother heard us asking and answering questions. I don't remember ever sleep walking but apparently I still sleep talk to this day. I am an insomniac so what little sleep I do get is not deep sleep. I am very worried about my children (I have 7 - 5boys and 2girls) neither of my girls walked in their sleep but have talked. My boys are a different story with 2 of them major sleep walkers. We use to have to lock all doors and windows. They seem to have grown out of this stage but I was just now watching a documentary on sexsomnia which has me very worried. A lot of the men who do this seem to have the same history as my sons and just wake up in the night and have sex with their partners. They do not remember the act and have only gone for help after months of their partners telling them what they do. The son who was the worst sleep walker in my family is now 14yrs old and my other son whom is 22yrs old has his first real full time girl friend. Should I pre-warn them of this sexsomnia so they know if ever a girl tells them they do this to believe it and get help or do I wait? I doubt if it ever happened that they would just come out and tell me - I am their mother. A case in the US where a 22yr old male knew he had sexsomnia but apparently his partners had no problems with it as they thought he was awake and never violent like so many are, but one night he was at a party and fell asleep on a couch and there was a woman at the other end. He apparently was having sex with her when she woke up and pushed him off. She went to the police and filed for assault but did not recognise whom attacked her. The man on the other hand went home the next morning and noticed he had a condom on and after hearing news that there was an assault he went to the police himself. It took 2 and 1/2 years of court to finally clear his name after having specialists testify for him. He is one of the lucky few whom would go to a specialist or would even hand himself in. Apparently with sexsomnia the patient can get violent if the partner resists. They never remember these sex acts the next day. Do I or do I not tell my boys about this problem before might or might not begin ? As I still sleep talk I worry that they will suffer from somnabalism again especially if stressed, drinking or overtired or even with a fever (that was when they were at their worst as children). Any help would be appreciated please as this subject is little known and little studied. ```` —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.184.76.170 (talk) 13:57, 20 April 2011 (UTC)

Copy Edit

I think some of the sentences in the introduction are a little long and can be broken up into smaller, more concise sentences. There are also a couple run-on sentences that could be eliminated to vary sentence structure. To better illustrate important ideas it was nice to see a list of related topics such as night terrors and sleep walking. Overall the important ideas and noted and easy to find throughout the article. There are no grammar errors or punctuation errors that I noticed. Great article. Jokeck7 (talk) 22:01, 29 April 2014 (UTC)

Needs to be changed to sleep talk

Per WP: Common name ScienceApe (talk) 20:45, 21 March 2016 (UTC)

Requested move 21 March 2021

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The result of the move request was: Page moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) Jerm (talk) 21:05, 28 March 2021 (UTC)

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Somniloquy → Sleep-talking – per WP:COMMONNAME. "Sleep-talking" is a far more common term for this than "somniloquy" as demonstrated by this Google Ngrams and this one. Note that such naming has precedent, with the most prominent example being sleepwalking, instead of somnambulism. Keivan.f^Talk 20:47, 21 March 2021 (UTC)

• Support, significantly more accessible to readers. Also the common term in medical journals – Pubmed since 2000: "Somniloquy" 21 results, "sleep talking" 77 results. – Thjarkur (talk) 21:19, 21 March 2021 (UTC)
• Support per nom. While I love learning new words, "Sleep-talking" is the common term for this phenomenon, both in regular common language and in medical journals. Paintspot Infez (talk) 23:39, 21 March 2021 (UTC)
• Support a move, although it's unclear to me if "sleep-talking" or "sleep talking" should be preferred, whether we're going by Google Ngrams or other evidence. I'd be fine with either. Adumbrativus (talk) 04:49, 26 March 2021 (UTC)

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