Why do we talk in our sleep?

Question

I want toknow why we still talking while we're deep asleep

Answer 1

Sleep talking and other parasomnias, or disorders that disrupt sleep, such as periodic limb movement (PLM) and restless leg syndrome (RLS), are pretty common. PLM is defined as periodic movements or jerking of one's legs or arms for at least two seconds and can occur anywhere from five times per hour to every 20 to 40 seconds. RLS describes an irrepressible compulsion to move one's legs as a reflex to an uncontrollable and disagreeable sensation. While common, the exact causes of these sleep interruptions are unknown. Luckily, health care providers treat sleep talking, restless leg syndrome, and other movements people make during sleep.

For sleep talkers, underlying psychological and physical factors, such as stress, lack of sleep, not eating enough, or heavy meals just before bedtime, may be the cause. The following are ways to address sleep talking:


sufficient sleep. This may seem paradoxical, but lack of sleep causes stress in some people, which in turn, leads to sleep talking.
relaxation exercises, such as meditation
light or not eating just before going to bed
a regular sleep schedule
cutting back on or eliminating caffeine and alcohol consumption
To manage leg kicking and jerking of one's body suddenly during sleep, see a health care provider, who will most likely ask for a medical history. Lab tests may be ordered to check for vitamin or mineral deficiencies that could trigger sudden movements during sleep. Finally, to complete this comprehensive assessment, the medical provider may suggest that you spend a night in a sleep lab, so that staff can chart and analyze body movements, air intake, brain and heart activity, and other bodily functions through a polysomnography. This tool tracks many physiological activities simultaneously. Using this information, the provider can determine if there are any other reasons that may be contributing to the PLM and/or RLS. Examples of such disorders include sleep apnea, anemia, narcolepsy, and mineral deficiencies, such as potassium. Once a diagnosis has been made, the health care provider can then recommend treatment, which could include medications or supplements such as:


iron supplements to treat anemia
potassium supplements to treat cramping and spasms, especially in the legs
sleeping pills and sedatives to induce deep sleep and lessen the occurrence of sudden bodily jerks during sleep
dopaminergics, medication usually used for treating the uncontrollable shaking and tremors associated with Parkinson's Disease
Besides the moving around and talking in your sleep, you may want to address this situation with your fiancé. From your question, it appears as if you two may not have discussed his sleeping on the couch approach to dealing with your sleep issues. You cannot tell your fiancé what to talk about, as only he knows his true thoughts and feelings concerning your movements during sleep and the consequent disruption of his sleep cycle. However, you may want to tell him that you are going to deal with the situation by seeking medical advice. Having this conversation, and showing him this letter, might help you on your way to sharing a bed in peaceful slumber.

In the meantime, with the help of your health care provider, or a referral to a sleep specialist, you can learn how to manage your sleep conditions, because even reducing the incidences of them can be of benefit to you both.

You can check out the following resources for more information:


Restless Leg Syndrome Foundation

Helpguide: Restless Legs Syndrome (RLS) and Periodic Limb Movements in Sleep (PLMS): Symptoms, Causes, Diagnosis, and Treatment

Answer 2

Sleep-talking actual (scientific) name is "Somniloquy". It is caused by temporary arousals (or peeks) during the NREM and REM phases of sleep, which stands for Rapid Eyes Movement. This is the phase when we have dreams, and the neuron activity is quite similar to the activity registered during the time we are awake. So basically some people's brain (actually 5% of adults, and 50% of children) "confuse" the REM with being AWAKE and talk in their sleep actually vocalizing out loud what they are saying in their dreams. Somniloquy has neither side effects nor generate health problems. The most common issue with sleep-talkers is that they awake their partners or other residents of the same house, which is also caused by people that snores loudly. Somniloquy in some people is unintelligible and in others is very clear. Not all people that talk sleeping are Somniloquers, as people without it can talk sleeping from time to time, usually when they have nightmares or suffer from night-terrors. In these cases more than talking is screaming.

Answer 3

I find myself doing that all the time, i think it is cause some times when we are in deep sleep, we are having dreams, and we are telling them no, or answering their questions, i know i have wake myself up talking in my sleep and usually it is to some one that i want to get a point over too, or have something to say, and it seems like it follows me to my sleep and so i try to dea with it then.

Answer 4

various reasons for various people usually you've had a stressful day and it cuts into your sleep.With sleep talking at least it's just sleep talking for some people, I talk I have full conversations with people who are awake while I'm deeply asleep I answer the phone I walk around I once woke up kicking the air when I had a dream I was trying to fight wolves off, I once ran out of my room and straight into my brothers room and banged into his window (his window takes up most of his wall) while asleep also one morning my mum came into my room and said I was meowing in my sleep,

Answer 5

Sleep paraylis stops us acting out our dreams, however, it is often not total. This means we can move or talk in our sleep as we act out our dreams

Answer 6

i think that u think u are ackualy there so u talk in u sleep like u are there so therefor u think u there and talk to the stuff in ur dream

Answer 7

i mean we really still alive but sleeping, so wouldnt we talk? we breathing right?

Answer 8

"we" don't. Mabye you do...but when I'm asleep I sleep.

Answer 9

Who else will listen?

Answer 10

I don't know but, I have done it all my life!