Why do we talk in our sleep?

Moment Of Um

Lemonada Media

Kids & Family, Education For Kids

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🗓️ 10 July 2024

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Lots of people talk in their sleep, especially kids! Have you ever heard anyone babbling away in the middle of the night? Or maybe someone has told you that you do it? Sleep talking is totally normal, but why do we do it? We asked sleep specialist Chris Winter to help us find the answer. Got a question that you’ve been dreaming about? Send it to us at BrainsOn.org/contact, and we’ll search through the night for the answer. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0	From the brains behind brains on, this is the Moment of Um.
0:14.9	Moment of Um comes to you from APM Studios. I'm Nico Gonzalez Whistler.
0:22.7	Last week, we had our annual Brains-on Universe slumber party extravaganza, and Gungador accused me of waking him up with my sleep talking.
0:33.8	Can you even believe it? I couldn't either. That's why I downloaded this handy-dandy app that records you while you're sleeping.
0:41.5	And my recording from last night just finished processing.
1:00.0	Ah. Aha, hear that? Absolutely no sleep to.
1:03.0	Put the burrito under there.
1:08.0	Roll the trolley and do the cheese.
1:14.5	Give me that cheesy buff.
1:15.4	Okay.
1:17.6	Enough of that.
1:22.0	So, seems Gungador was telling the truth after all.
1:24.1	Must apologize to him later.
1:28.4	And also return the unicorn print fleece Blanky I borrowed from him.
1:33.0	But first, why do some of us talk in our sleep?
1:34.9	Hi, I'm Lila.
1:36.6	Hi, I'm Aria.
1:38.0	We're from Wisconsin. And our question is, why do people talk in their sleep?
1:45.8	So the reason that we talk in our sleep and sleep talking, if you want to be really smart, is called somniloquy.
1:53.2	My name's Chris Winter, and I'm a neurologist or brain doctor and sleep specialist.
1:59.1	In deeper stages of sleep, we're still able to move and in some
2:04.2	cases talk. That's where sleepwalking comes in. If somebody goes to bed and they wake up on the
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