I've been told by my family members that I talk and sometimes laugh in my sleep. I read somewhere that if one talks in their sleep, they have unresolved issues or are stressed out. Is this true?
2007-12-02 07:40:06 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Mental Health
Not really. That's kind of a myth, and it can't be proven to be true. You can tell when you're stressed out without paying attention to talking or laughing in your sleep. A lot of people do it, and it just means you're having some pretty sweet dreams while in REM :)
If you feel fine and don't think you have any stress or unresolved issues (and it's not effecting your life), then you are fine. Dreams and things you do while sleeping don't tell you much about anything other than showing you random tidbits of the previous day/days/weeks that stuck in your mind...and they're generally unimportant. You're totally okay...and keep laughing in your sleep, must mean you're having fun :)
2007-12-02 07:51:41 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, I'd say from what I've seen from your questions and such you seem like a stressed out person. Just the lack of sleep you're experiencing is stressfull.
As far as expressing unresolved issues, this is what dreams are for. All dreams are unresolved issues. These aren't necessarily bad things. Just feelings you didn't process yet. Sometimes you just didn't have time to process them during the day so they get processed in your dreams. Other times you avioded them purposefully and they come out in your dreams. Recurring dreams are usually a result of intentionally repressed feelings.
One common misnomer about sleep is that your brain rests too. Actually your brain is quite active during sleep. Temporary memory is burned into long term memory and
unresolved feelings are resolved in dreams.
Talking and laughing are probably the same thing, just a little stronger. Quiet time is usually good for feeling and processing. If you just go-go-go all day there's never time to feel and process. This is actually one reason some people just keep going and never stop. They know, either conciously or unconciously, that as soon as they stop they will be in touch with their feelings. And if the feelings are painful, there is motivation to just keep going and never stop.
2007-12-02 15:21:24 · answer #2 · answered by LG 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no you're fine, that's mostly Neo-Freudian psychology that would think it's reflective of some sort of repressed feelings, which is all essentially a load of bs. there's nothing wrong with it, except that it might annoy people who are in the same room while you sleep.
2007-12-02 07:48:08 · answer #3 · answered by opi 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
youre fine. i talk in my sleep too.
2007-12-02 11:31:55 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋