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{{quote|I hear the secrets that you keep
When you're talkin' in your sleep|'''The Romantics''', "Talkin' In Your Sleep"}}
Dreams, occurring in REM (no, not that [[REM]]) are the subconscious mind's way of rooting through thoughts and concepts the brain is trying to process while the owner of the brain is sleeping. When a sleeper is dreaming, they sometimes also talk. In [[Real Life]], these verbal fragments are seldom coherent, let alone
In fiction and media, anything spoken whilst dreaming is intelligible and (usually) deeply meaningful, offering up insights into the hidden life of our heroes. [[The Bully]] may reveal himself as a [[Bruiser with a Soft Center]] or a [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]] though he's still obnoxious while awake. Your tough-as-nails [[Mama Bear]] may have [[Bad Dreams|nightmares about things from her past]], which of course gives [[The Hero]] something to comfort her over. [[The Stoic]] may show [[Anxiety Dreams|his hidden fears]]. Your shy [[Shrinking Violet]] may call out the name of the one she loves in her sleep, though she never gives a hint while awake (bonus points if she does so rather... [[Erotic Dream|passion]][[Covert Pervert|ately]]).
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A common variation involves the 'sleeper' [[Invoked Trope|pretending to talk in his sleep]] to misdirect eavesdroppers.
Supernatural intrusion into dreams is a method of justifying the dreamer speaking in lucid sentences. Nor is this trope restricted to natural
Sleep talking can be accompanied by [[Sleepwalking]] and [[Fever Dream Episode|Fever Dreams]] as well. [[Truth in Television]] as there are many people who talk in their sleep in [[Real Life]].
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Probably related to the fictional idea that dreams are generally coherent experiences that consist of the dreamer reliving past experiences, instead of surreal flashes of (seemingly) unrelated things.
Not to be confused with the half-awake babble someone makes when awakened abruptly by the phone in the dead of night.
Not to be confused with [[Talking in Your Dreams]], where two or more dreaming characters are communicating with one another.
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'''Inuyasha:''' Damn you...what are you dreaming about! }}
* In ''[[Saint Beast]]'', Rey is shown to not only talk in his sleep, but be clingy and demanding about it.
* In the first episode of ''[[Best Student Council]]'', when Rino was knocked out,
== [[Comic Books]] ==
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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 ''[[Harry Potter (film)|Harry Potter]] [[Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban|and the Prisoner of Azkaban]]'' [[The Film of the Book|film]], Ron Weasley wakes up one night and mumbles to Harry, somewhat
{{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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