This thread brings back some memories ... not of myself - as far as I know or have ever heard, I dont talk in my sleep - but of A. ...
dlowan wrote:Other times, he babbles nonsense in all the proper rhythms and cadences of normal speech - something he can do when awake, too.
One night, when she was not yet living here but I visited her where she then lived, I woke up sometime mid-morning, and since we were supposed to go to the city of P., a border away, that day, I tried to wake her up - but to no avail, whatsoever. She did half wake up - and I could talk with her - and she actually talked back - except it was in no existing language.
She would respond to my every sentence, question or edging on in fully-formed sentences, with as dlowan says all the proper rhythms and cadences of normal speech - but with not a single recognizable word in it. She's American, spoke snippets of one or two other languages apart from English but that's all - and distinct intonations, emphases etc of the words she uttered were, for example, quite Slovak-like - but not one actual word in any of the languages concerned among them. It was well weird.
Intrigued and eventually resigned to not being able to wake her up (not wanting to move on to shaking her awake or anything), I tried asking her questions, either in English or, eventually, in the magic fantasy language she seemed to be speaking, and she responded in utter self-evidence, with impatience if she thought me not to be understanding, insistence as if to make a point, assent when hearing something she apparently liked or with a shake of the head if she disagreed with the gibberish I spoke - all as in a normal conversation. I eventually gave up, kissed her good night again and went back to sleep. When we woke up, sometime late in the afternoon I think, she did not remember anything.