Sleep talking

Non-REM parasomnias have variable prevalence rates depending on patient age and different diagnoses. Sleep talking, brux-ism, sleepwalking, sleep terrors, and enuresis occur more frequently in childhood than in adulthood. Nightmares appear to occur with similar frequency in adults and children. REM behavior disorder (RBD), an REM-sleep parasomnia, has a reported prevalence of 0.5% and frequently is associated with concomitant neurologic conditions.16 Chronic RBD is more common in elderly men and may have a familial disposition. 

The pathogenesis of parasomnias (e.g., sleepwalking, enuresis, sleep talking) is variable and not well described and involves... 

Parasomnias are characterized by undesirable physical or behavioral phenomena that occur during sleep [e.g., sleepwalking, sleep talking, bruxism (grinding of teeth), enuresis, night terrors, and RBD]. RBD patients act out their dreams during sleep, often in a violent manner. 

Examples of dissociations of consciousness that often divide the waking mind into two compartments include microsleeps, attentional lapses, and fantasy states. At the edges of sleep are hypnagogic hallucinations and sleep paralysis. Within sleep are sleep walking, sleep talking, and lucid dreaming. In all of these conditions, consciousness has some features characteristic of one state mixed with features characteristic of another. 

An alternative possibility is that Mr. A acquired the information about Miss B s activities and dream by psi before the first part of his dream began. The A-A parallelism was then brought about either by sleep talking or by psi, and the information about Miss B was incorporated into it. This possibility provides a function for the A-A parallelism calling attention... 

Sleep walking, sleep talking, and tooth grinding are three of the so-called parasomnias, movement (or motor) behaviours that occur unexpectedly during sleep. When we recall that the answer to so many of our questions has been brain activation in sleep, it will not... 

All is quiet. Sleep hovers over me. I am wearied unto death with all that mortals must know weary with fear, weary with grief, weary with talking and planning and fighting, and weary with the old wound in my thigh, and the new wound in my heart—that I have destroyed Ned. 

You must not try to talk, dear. Just finish this gruel like a good boy and then go to sleep again. Your baby sister is quite safe, and is sleeping sweetly in her crib over in the little... 

Provine, R.R. Fischer, K.R. (1989). Laughing, smiling and talking relation to sleeping and social contexts in humans. Ethology 83 295-305. 

Cocaine causes profound mental stimulation, behaviorally evidenced by increased talkativeness and activity, flight of ideas, euphoria, and inflated self-esteem. Fatigue is offset and there is a reduced need for sleep. Supression of appetite also occurs. 

Then came a breakthrough. An admitted prostitute accused Zorzi Michiel of confessing while talking in his sleep. 

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