How is this possible?
I have always considered myself to be a pretty light sleeper. I can usually tell when the dog comes in the room at night and starts playing with a chew toy or whatever. So how is it possible that I talk in my sleep even when I’m not really asleep yet?
I talk on the phone late at night pretty often because of Belle’s work schedule. I know it’s time for me to wrap up the conversation when I start talking nonsensical. The other night we were chatting it up about something fairly mundane. She asked me a question and my response, honest Injun, was “What’s his name just walked by in a track suit”. WTF?!? I’m laying in bed by myself at 1:30AM and I come up with that? Obviously Belle was totally discombobulated by this.
The weird thing is that even though I’m far enough out of it to be talking in my sleep I’m always still awake enough to immediately realize that I’ve just uttered complete jibberish. I think what happens is I start dreaming and I respond out loud to whatever I’m dreaming about. Odder still is that when I’m actually asleep and dreaming 90% of my dreams are about sports and/or sex. I’m not one of those that has the totally random dreams like I’m sitting on the porch playing chess with Joseph Stalin and a herd of blue unicorns wanders past being shepherded by Carmen Electra. They’re often like movies where if somebody happens I don’t like I mentally rewind it and film it again hoping for a different outcome. That makes it all the more odd that my semi-conscious dreams are the bizarre ones.
August 24th, 2006 at 4:14 pm
I’ll admit that you’ve babbled a lot over the years, but nothing was quite so random as the guy in the track suit.