Sleep Talking: Why Exactly People Tend To Do This
Have you ever wondered why you sleep soundly, and your OH will wake you up with incoherent chatter throughout the night? Or perhaps you’re the sleep talker, and you just want to know if there’s ever any sense in the random things your mouth blurts out when sleep talking?
“Talking in your sleep is called Solimnoquy and it is a form of a sleep disorder called a parasomnia,” Nerina Ramlakham, the author of Fast Asleep Wide Awake, explains.
However, Nerina says that if you sleep talk on the reg, it’s likely that you have a need to express things that you don’t feel able to say during your waking hours, but are still lurking in your subconscious (the slumber-based equivalent of a bottle of white wine, you might say).
“I see this with people who might be compulsive pleasers who aren’t saying what they need to say out loud,” she notes. “It’s also common with creative people who are needing to express, draw that picture, write that book, sing that song.”
If you’re a regular sleep talker, it’s not generally a cause for alarm: “I don’t see it as a medical problem or disorder as such. However, it can be associated with tightness in the jaw and even teeth grinding (bruxism).”
But if you do want to kick your sleep talking habit to the curb? You’ll need to learn how to express the thoughts and emotions that you need to get out, in a way that feels safe to you when you’re actually awake.
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