My youngest (now 15) talks in his sleep…Every single night at 1:50a.m… He’s done this for almost 6 years now.
You can almost set your watch to it. He does not sleep walk, only talk. It last about 10 minutes or so. But this occures every night at 10 till 2. He is otherwise normal and well adjusted, but man, the precision of this freaks me and my wife out. Neither I nor my wife talk/walk in our sleep. Nor did our 2 older kids. His talking is always mumbling, but it’s loud enough to hear across the hall.
He says he remembers very few of his dreams, and that he rarely has bad ones, so that’s no clue.
my little brother does this all the time. you can actually talk to him and carry on a conversation, but it’s rather one sided (his end tends to be a bit schitzophasic).
I have been known to walk in my sleep (two or three times) and talk in my sleep (many times). The peak was during puberty. It seems I grew out of it by my 20th birthday.
Some sites I found suggest sleepwalking (somnambulism) and sleep talking (somniloquy) occur in a state somewhere between sleeping and waking. This makes sense to me. One of my sleepwalking episodes occured when I had to get up on a cold night to get myself another blanket. (Unfortunately for my roommates, I got theirs.)
I wonder if there is anything happening at 1:50 A.M. that might half-waken your son. A neighbor leaving for work, perhaps, or a train whistle? I’m curious to know if the timing changes when the clocks do. When we “fall back” an hour next month, will he sleep talk at 1:50, or at 12:50?
He may not need an external clue as to the time, though. I think we have the capacity to keep track of time in our sleep. Very often, I’ve woken up within a minute or two of when the alarm was supposed to go off, only to find the electricty was out or that I’d forgotten to set the alarm clock.
I am a sleep-talker. (I am well past puberty, and never outgrew it.)
I have it on good authority (Roommate) and audio tape (courtesy of Roommate).
Roommate taped several nights of ‘conversations’ I had, some with people I knew [identified from mentioning a name or the subject of the conversation] (one person had been dead for several years, but the conversation was in the present tense - THAT one was freaky!), a couple conversations I could not identify, and one conversation with George Stephanopoulis (no idea why him??? - would have preferred Brad Pitt). None of these conversations had anything to do with anything I had dreamt that night - Roommate would play the tape after I had written down my dream/s. None of these episodes occurred at any particular life stress level (high/medium/low stress still produced sleeptalking). Nothing erotic or dealing with the day’s news topics - just ho-hum mundane stuff.
We both just got used to the fact that I talk in my sleep, and if it gets too weird for Roommate, there’s always the couch, three rooms away.
Sleep goes in cycles. If he goes to sleep at the same time every night, he probably gets to the talking part at the same time every night. I think it’s part of the REM sleep. Does he do it even if he stays up longer than usual?
I had a roommate who occassionally yelled in his sleep. We’d stay up at night just to listen to him.
Some time arouns three in the morning you’d hear, all of a sudden: snore, snore, “AAAAAHHHH!!! INCOMING!!! HIT THE DECKS!!!”…snore, snore, snore, “Hey, Joe, could you lend me five dollars?”
I’m also another one, several years past puberty, that talks in her sleep. There have been times when it was dream related, but not often.
I think Mousseduck had it, when s/he suggested that if your son goes to sleep at the same time every night, then that would explain the talking at the same time.
My brother talked in his sleep - he scared me to death! I didnt know who was talking in the next room, I was just a child, I thought it was prowlers. I doubted my own sanity for years.
My 9 yr old son talks in his sleep, he even yelled at me one night - told me right off!
His talking seems to be directly related to his stress level that day, a calm quiet day: little chatting… a very stressful/busy day: he blabs all night.