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** Another outtake: "Klaus, the pinata is drooping..."
* The [[Damsel in Distress]] in ''[[Dead Again]]'' could ''only'' talk in her sleep at the beginning of the movie. While awake, she was amnesiac and mute until they got her hypnotized.
* In the ''
{{quote|'''Ron:'''... Spiders...they want me to tapdance! I don't want to tapdance!
'''Harry:''' [[Crowning Moment of Funny|You tell those spiders, Ron]]. }}
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* In ''[[Vorkosigan Saga|Diplomatic Immunity]]'', we're told that Ekaterin doesn't just have a top secret clearance due to her part in foiling a terrorist plot; it's also due to Miles' tendency to babble about state secrets in his sleep.
* [[Percy Jackson and The Olympians]]- The first time Percy ever sees Annabeth, she's feeding him ambrosia (which to him tastes like popcorn-flavored pudding) and muttering something. When he can talk and asks how she even knew his name and what happened to him, she just smirks and says, "You talk in your sleep"
* In ''[[Harry Potter and
** Specifically, he kept saying "He's at Hogwarts," with "he" being {{spoiler|Wormtail}}.
* Several characters do this in ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'', including Frodo, Eowyn, Merry and Faramir.
* [[Dr. Seuss]] takes it [[Up to Eleven]] in ''The Sleep Book'':
{{quote|''Do you talk in your sleep? It's a wonderful sport.
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* In ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'', Grace used to [http://egscomics.com/?date=2002-09-11 talk and scream in her sleep] when she was having [[Recurring Dreams|Recurring]] [[Bad Dreams]].
* In ''[[Sinfest]]'', [https://web.archive.org/web/20140209190635/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3276 the laptop does this in sleep mode, in binary].
* In ''[[Blue Yonder]]'', [https://web.archive.org/web/20121225081745/http://www.blueyondercomic.net/comics/1304240/blue-yonder-chapter-1-page-29/ Lena's father calls her mother's name, having drunk himself to sleep].
* In ''[[Daisy Owl]]'', Daisy's father does this [https://web.archive.org/web/20130205143036/http://www.daisyowl.com/comic/2008-07-12 while being purchased] at his place of employment.
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== [[Real Life]] ==
* [[Truth in Television]]: Some people have been known to talk in their sleep. This only happens whenever dreams occur outside of an REM phase (
* When appearing as a guest/interviewee on [[Ellen DeGeneres]]' show, [[The Man Your Man Could Smell Like|Isaiah Mustafa]] said that his girlfriend teases him for reciting the lines from the Old Spice ads in his sleep.
▲* Some people have been known to talk in their sleep. This only happens whenever dreams occur outside of an REM phase (Yes that is possible), as during those phases the body is paralyzed.
* There's a blog called [http://sleeptalkinman.blogspot.com/ Sleep Talkin' Man]
▲** An example of this actually appeared in the first season of the Australian ''[[Big Brother]]'': in the middle of the night, housemate Ben said, "Where's the chicken?" When his fellow housemates responded with "Huh?" he elaborated, "The last chicken?" Upon their further confusion, he insisted, "Chicken! You know..." and started making chicken noises. That's when they realised he was sleep-talking.
▲* There's a blog called [http://sleeptalkinman.blogspot.com/ Sleep Talkin' Man] which is the trope as [[Real Life]] as you can get. His wife records him, and very little of what he says makes sense. But is very, very funny.
* The recorded sleep speech of [[wikipedia:Dion McGregor|Dion McGregor]], tape-recorded by his roommate and released on records and CDs.
* In ''The Making of the Atomic Bomb'', Richard Rhodes mentions a (real
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