What talking in your sleep actually reveals about you and your personality
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Known officially as 'somniloquy', sleep talking is as mysterious as it can be entertaining to overhear .
In the wee, dark hours of the night, many of us have spouted either complete jibberish, or something which, out of context, makes very little sense.
Somniloquy (as well as sleep walking) affects around one per cent of adults and there is a widely-held belief that it offers a tantalising glimpse into what's going on in someone else's subconscious - or what they're really like.
The abandon with which somniloquy sufferers sleep talk may seem as if there's a deep-rooted psychological catalyst.
However, the truth is somewhat different.
Michael Breus, Ph.D., a sleep specialist and author of The Power Of When , spoke to SELF about what sleep talking does in fact reveal about a person.
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It turns out, sleep talking is totally meaningless, and not worth paying attention to or analysing.
"There's no data to suggest that [sleep talking] is either predictive in nature or kind of gives you a window into their subconscious or anything like that," Michael explains.
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Basically, you're unlikely to witness overhear a sleep talker airing all the skeletons in their closet.
It is, however, indicative of one thing: sleep deprivation.
Michael adds, "Most of the time it's due to either something causing sleep deprivation or there already is a high level of sleep deprivation."
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The National Sleep Foundation adds to this stating how stress, depression, daytime drowsiness, alcohol, and fever can cause somniloquy.
So while there's no risk of giving anything about yourself away as a sleep talker, it may very well be that you need to try and relax and get some better quality sleep.