Talking in Your Sleep

Last Wednesday I woke up to a familiar sound.  It was my wife, and she was talking.  What she said, I couldn't tell you... since it didn't make sense.  Immediately a familiar tune came into my head:

TALKING IN YOUR SLEEP by THE ROMANTICS

This is one of many songs I was exposed to at a young age by MTV.  My guess is that I watched at least one hour of MTV every day with my brother and sister between 1982-1984 when I was 3-5 years old.  I think many of these early 80's songs were permanently tattooed to my young, developing brain.  Even after all these years, I still love these songs from the early 80's. 

My wife uses the term "pillow talk" when she hears me talk in my sleep.  A couple of years ago, she started emailing me the bizarre things I say in my sleep.  It always makes me laugh when I get the email early the next morning.  Here's one example:

on April 25th last year:  "Did you put this hornets nest on my neck, Megan?  Huh, did you?" 

I started doing the same thing as I heard her talking in her sleep. 

This is one Megan said on the 23rd of February, the night after a late rehearsal as Musical Director for Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat:  "Perhaps well all misjudged the lad."  (A lyric from the show.) 

I love when this sort of thing happens.  It's always good for a laugh. 

Often I am asked by our daughter to share a story from the first year of our marriage.  When I married Megan, my step-kids were 5 years old and 18 months old.  One night, the baby woke up and Megan got up to comfort him and help him go back to sleep.  She soon returned and got back in bed.  Through all the commotion I was awake and I asked her "is everything OK?" 

Her response was an angry, incoherent stirring of mumblings that made no sense.  I'm still impressed in this moment at her ability to fall back asleep so quickly.  Still not sure if she was asleep and wondering where she had learned to speak wookie, I asked her to clarify what she had said. 

She sat up, scoffed and said "Zoe was cleaning the bathroom, and I told her to stop making so much noise or she would wake the baby up."  I was new to parenthood, but it did seem bizarre that a 5 year old would voluntarily clean the bathroom in the middle of the night.

Don't be deceived by this sleeping beauty.  She doesn't make sense when she talks!

My personal favorite is more of a sleep walking story.  My dad woke up in the middle of the night and my younger brother (about 8 years old at the time) was standing by the side of the bed awkward and silent.  When he asked what was wrong, my brother didn't respond.  Soon, my dad felt something wet and realized my brother had mistaken the side of his bed for the toilet and he was being peed on.  My dad acted fast, jumped out of bed and rushed little brother to the toilet.  It was too late though, there was pee all over the bed and floor of his bedroom. 

I'm sure everyone has their own little story about sleep talking.  Thanks for listening to mine.  Share some of your own in the comments section here if you feel so inclined.