Question: I have a friend who says hilarious things while sleep talking. We found this out at camp when she sleep talked every night! She sang songs and our favorite sleep quote was, “They call it concentrated orange juice, but I concentrate and I NEVER GET THE JUICE!” So, that gives you an example, and she talked for hours.
We then found that we could talk back and she would answer. It was the craziest thing. She couldn’t remember who we were; just random things about herself, and if you asked for her town she would give you her street. If we said something like “Knock, knock, knock, can we come inside?” she would respond like she was at her house, and we could talk about that, but then we could immediately make her jump to a school scene. It was the craziest thing! For instance, we even told her she was a hobo and we stole her box, and she said, “NOOOOOO NOT MY BOX!” She was not pretending and this occurred several nights. She couldn’t remember anything in the morning. Is it harmful to converse with a sleep talker like this? Could this deep of sleep talking just be caused by not enough sleep at the camp?Kevin’s ThoughtsHey Camp Girl! First of all, let me just say: HAHAHAHA! Your description is hilarious in itself, but I can imagine how suffocatingly
funny that must have been in person at camp!To answer your questions, sleep talking is almost always not an issue to be concerned about, including conversation with a sleep talker. Here’s a quote from Dr. Dement’s Stanford Sleep Book that hits straight home to the point:Dr. D’s Sleep Book Says…