Sleep talking

fairy_lights

My OH is a sleep talker and has often woken me up to tell me some urgent piece of gibberish. To be honest I find it absolutely hilarious and the comedy value outweighs any annoyance at being woken up
Sometimes he will sleep talk every night, and then it might suddenly stop for a few months. There doesn't seem to be any pattern to it and it doesn't tie in with periods of stress or illness, so it's a bit of a mystery.

esmy

All my family sleep talk and DD2 used to sleep walk too. I often wake myself up laughing but never remember what was so funny!

apesxx

I'm a talker/ walker too �� I usually get bad around times of unrest, new baby/ new job or stress etc. I was terrible when I had both my children, for the first few weeks OH would wake up to me clawing at the duvet at the bottom of the bed or pulling clothes out of the drawers/wardrobe saying I was looking for the baby and couldn't find him when all along they were fast asleep in the Moses basket.
Another time I leap frogged over the OH in the night putting my hand (and all my weight) on his stomach and he ended up being sick from the shock/pain. Another time I was having a dream that my daughter was falling off a cliff and I reached out and caught her bum, but it turned out I was actually wrestling with OH's face and he had 2 quite deep scratches the next morning. None of this I remember at all.

I haven't been as bad as those for a while now but OH says he still regularly has to tell me to get back in bed when I'm running round the bedroom, rooting in the wardrobe or waking him up to tell him there's someone stood watching us in the corner. Or recently apparently one night I was screaming and shaking him awake telling him 'the walkers are coming, quick we need to run, there here'! Yes we had been watching the walking dead that night x

And I'm a regular talker, OH says I'm always muttering gibberish throghout the night, at first he said it used to frighten him to death when I would suddenly gasp, sit bolt upright in bed and just look round with a vacant expression before lying back down and going to sleep. Now I think he's got used to me and he doesn't tend to wake up to my gibberish unless I actually get out of bed.

CathA

I think we should start a new thread, giving examples of daft things we've done when asleep! Who's with me? X

Mrshaworth2b

apesxx wrote: »

I'm a talker/ walker too �� I usually get bad around times of unrest, new baby/ new job or stress etc. I was terrible when I had both my children, for the first few weeks OH would wake up to me clawing at the duvet at the bottom of the bed or pulling clothes out of the drawers/wardrobe saying I was looking for the baby and couldn't find him when all along they were fast asleep in the Moses basket.
Another time I leap frogged over the OH in the night putting my hand (and all my weight) on his stomach and he ended up being sick from the shock/pain. Another time I was having a dream that my daughter was falling off a cliff and I reached out and caught her bum, but it turned out I was actually wrestling with OH's face and he had 2 quite deep scratches the next morning. None of this I remember at all.

I haven't been as bad as those for a while now but OH says he still regularly has to tell me to get back in bed when I'm running round the bedroom, rooting in the wardrobe or waking him up to tell him there's someone stood watching us in the corner. Or recently apparently one night I was screaming and shaking him awake telling him 'the walkers are coming, quick we need to run, there here'! Yes we had been watching the walking dead that night x

And I'm a regular talker, OH says I'm always muttering gibberish throghout the night, at first he said it used to frighten him to death when I would suddenly gasp, sit bolt upright in bed and just look round with a vacant expression before lying back down and going to sleep. Now I think he's got used to me and he doesn't tend to wake up to my gibberish unless I actually get out of bed.

This was me after having our son, I think my husband is dreading when we have our second. I slept with a v pillow and had my arm under it and so many time's I woke him up saying the baby was still in the bed. He used to have to say no he's in the basket etc and I'd still do it. I'm not a avid sleep walker or talker but I always wake my husband up about spiders being on the wall or in the bed. And he's petrified of spiders so it's not the best way to be woke up haha

kitrat

Jacko_amz wrote: »

It does get worse when I'm hot so perhaps that's just it, no where near the menopause stage (I hope!) separate rooms is not an option we would hate that x

I don't sleepwalk or talk but I do have a lot of nightmares when I get too hot so seems worth investigating this.

System

I sleep talk a lot apparently but only when i have been doing loads of overtime at work. I put it down to getting less sleep than i normally would as i dont do it when i work normal hours.

Jacko_amz

Haha lovely reading the stories! When I first got our puppy for the first week I kept getting out of bed or leaping over OH because I thought I couldn't find the dog!

I woke him up twice last night by saying there was someone in the house, he doesn't like these ones lol but normally he finds it funny and often tries and converses with me asking me questions whilst I'm sleep talking

sparkiemalarkie

Jacko_amz wrote: »

It does get worse when I'm hot so perhaps that's just it, no where near the menopause stage (I hope!) separate rooms is not an option we would hate that x

My husband used to frequently get night terrors ...
after a lot of time, energy and research we realised that when he was too hot in bed the night terrors were at their worst.

We have, eventually, found an easy solution - separate duvets.
I have a thin single duvet and my husband has a king size thin duvet but I have both duvets over me because I feel the cold....

This has really done the trick


good luck
sparkie

Gigervamp

When DS2 was young, he often used to giggle in his sleep. Once, at a time when he was spending a lot of time playing a PC game called Age of Empires, he came into us one night and told us he didn't have enough food for his villagers.

My husband once had me in fits of giggles. We were in bed, he was asleep and I was reading, when he started clapping his hands together and making barking noises like a seal! My giggles woke him a little and I asked him what he was doing. "Catching fish" he said, as if it was perfectly normal. :rotfl: