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Somniloquy
(redirected from Sleep-talking)

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som·nil·o·quy (sm-nl-kw) or som·nil·o·quism (-kwzm)
n.
The act or habit of talking in one's sleep.

som·nilo·quist n.

Sleep Talking
Talking during REM sleep, a motor breakthrough of dream speech, or talking during transitory arousals from non-REM sleep and other sleep stages; full consciousness is not achieved; no residual memory of the event


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The Albion goalkeeper has been keeping his team-mate up all night with constant sleep-talking.
The bride-to-be additionally suffers from irregular bouts of seeming narcolepsy - indeed she spends most of the play sleep-talking.
More recent research has suggested that sleep disturbances may be a cause for bruxism in children as well as causing a number of other problems such as bed-wetting, drooling and sleep-talking.
 
 
 
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