So, we determined earlier that yes, babies do dream, but the only way you might learn what they're dreaming about is if they talk in their sleep...
We always remember our mom telling us we went into her room once in the middle of the night and clearly said, "The mouse is in the box." and then returned to sleep. Didn't remember the dream, but we found it quite amusing the next day when our mom told us.
Angie writes on Blissfully Domestic about some of the things she overhears from her kids. Usually, they're everyday things like, "That car is mine." "I'm telling mom."
Anyone hear any fun things from your kids while they're asleep? Is there any sleep walking going on in your home?
Image: Sleepingdisorders365.com
Comments (16)
My son talks a lot in his sleep; and this story is a little funny; but also little sad. After being dry after naps and for long stretches during the day, we (husband and me) decided it was time for my son to try to wear training pants (we called them cotton underpants) and try to use the potty. After two accidents, we switched back to diapers. That night, we heard my son crying out in his sleep: "I don't want cotton underpants!" Needless to say, we backed off and we're still wearing diapers.
I walked in one night to hear my toddler crying about her brother taking her cookie. "My cookie! Ian! Myyy coookie!"
My 17-month old who is obsessed with dogs sometimes goes "woof, woof" in his sleep. Dreaming of doggies!
When my son was a toddler, one of his first words was cracker. He also signed it as he said it. One night I woke up to him saying and signing "cracker, cracker" in his sleep.
At five he still talks in his sleep.
My brother always talked a lot in his sleep, and apparently still does as an adult.
The first instance that my parents remember, he was in lower elementary school. After he had gone to bed for a while, he came downstairs where my parents were still up. They asked him what the matter was, since he was walking kind of zombie-ish and was glass eyed. He suddenly shouted "BIG PANTS LITTLE PANTS" and then turned around and went back to bed. He didn't remember anything in the morning.
He still never remembers anything in the morning, but the stories (from his wife) are just as weird.
The doctors warned my mother that I might lose my hearing at a young age so she started teaching me sign language almost from birth. She still enjoys telling people that when I was very little I would sign things in my sleep. Apparently I signed "love," "girl," and "mommy" a lot. When my hearing checked out okay as a toddler and I was developing speech normally, she stopped the sign language teaching (which I deeply regret). My husband says I still sign occasionally in my sleep even though I haven't retained much of it consciously.
I have always been a sleep talker. Even now at 25 my spouse confirms that I sleep talk a few days each week. As a child, I not only talked but was a chronic sleep walker. I would wake up in the morning to a smirking breakfast table, only to hear that I had floated around the house turning on lights, unplugging phones, arranging shoes on the staircase, opening doors, or petting imaginary cats (no joke) throughout the night. I was embarrassed about it as a child, particularly when I sleep walked while having sleep-overs with friends. In retrospect I think it's funny.
One of my most recent sleep stories involves me sitting-up in bed, reaching for my glass of water but picking up my bracelet instead and trying to drink from it. Thankfully my spouse thinks it's funny too.
Just the other night, one of my twins was sick and snuggling in our bed. We were sitting there and all of a sudden she says "you wike it?" Completely out of the blue. It's what she says when she gives you kisses, take a drink, or get a bite of food. Adorable!
I have always been a sleep talker, and it reached the worst point when I was in college working as I lifeguard. My then boyfriend (now husband) begged me to quit lifeguarding because he couldn't spend another summer of me repeatedly asking people to "walk, please" and "stack your tubes on the side of the pool" all night in my sleep. I guess I never left the job!
Now my 16 month girl talks in her sleep, usually about dogs or cats. Much like KkatMpls son, I hear my daughter saying "woof, woof" in her sleep.
I dozed off in college in my dorm room once when a chatting with friends. They kept talking. When eventually they were going to leave the room i yelled out loudly from my haze "Where's your passport? You'll need your passport!" (to leave the room!)
My son laughs and giggles in his sleep. That makes me feel so good...that hopefully he is really truly happy.
The only time I ever heard my son talk in his sleep, he started mumbling "l m n o p... l m n o p.... x y z ...." Hilarious!
Our 22 m.o. will occasionally blurt out/yell something in her sleep - the other night it was SELTZER JUICE. The baby loves seltzer.
Once, when she was around 8 months old, my daughter kept signing "milk" while napping. She was making sucking noises too.
Another time, at 14 months, she woke herself up because was laughing so hard in her sleep.
My two years talks in his sleep, saying the same things he says repeatedly throughout the day: "I do it!", "I want that one!", and "More apple juice, please."
When my brother was boy, my parents once found him *running* in the middle of the night his sleep, eyes glazed over and unfocused. He was racing from his bedroom, down the hallway and into my parents' bathroom where he would turn on the light. Then he would turn off the light and repeat the whole sequence all over again. When they inquired what he was doing (gently so as not to wake him), he replied quite seriously, "I'm breaking the world record of course!" The Olympics were going on, so that probably explained the source. In the morning he remembered nothing. We still laugh about it today.