# Talking in your sleep

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talking-in-your-sleep/60473
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [April 2, 2001, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talking-in-your-sleep/60473 "2001-04-02T11:40:10Z")
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### Author: ![Delila](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/58956e/32.png) [@Delila](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Delila)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2001, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talking-in-your-sleep/60473/1 "2001-04-02T11:40:10Z")

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What causes you to sometimes talk outloud in your sleep? Why don’t we do it more often. (please site reference)

Thank you

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### Author: ![Andy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/aeb1de/32.png) [@Andy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2001, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talking-in-your-sleep/60473/2 "2001-04-02T12:18:37Z")

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[http://www.google.com](http://www.google.com) threw up billions of sites on this topic.

Maybe they include a few cites too;)

[This site](http://www.stanford.edu/~dement/sleeptalk.html) states that the cause of sleep talking is unknown.