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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 linear -- ah, but this is fictionland...
 
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 Withwith a Soft Center]] or a [[Jerk Withwith 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]]).
 
If it isn't one of the above, most likely there will be crucial information imparted. Even if the sleeper knows all the secrets in the story, the one piece of information the listener needs will be what is murmured between nonsensical babbles. If something delicate is revealed there's a good chance that the listener will misunderstand it and causes [[Hilarity Ensues|hilarity to ensue]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[Zero no Tsukaima (Light Novel)|Zero no Tsukaima]]'' human familiar has a heated dream about his "master", in the middle of the class.
* Nori in ''[[Rozen Maiden]]'' mentions this line in her sleep:
{{quote| ''Jun, I can't, we're siblings!''}}
* Chamo in a [[Mahou Sensei Negima]] mumbles "Lady, there's no way. I can't smoke that..." Keeping in mind Chamo is an ''ermine.''
* Cruelly played straight in ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]''. During the ninth episode, when Asuka sleep walks (or debatably consciously walks) into Shinji's futon, Shinji leans in for a kiss, but stops when he hears Asuka mumbling "Mama" in her sleep. This would foreshadow later on when we learn that {{spoiler|Asuka's mother killed herself}}.
** In the manga adaptation of ''Neon Genesis Evangelion'', Asuka even ''attempts to strangle'' Shinji while in a ''coma''. Notably, that's what happens instead of a certain infamous [[Dude, She's Like, in Aa Coma]] incident.
* In one of the side-stories of ''[[Pluto]]'', a composer with writer's block ''sings'' in his sleep, the melody which is the key to his unfinished work.
* Akane Tendo from ''[[Ranma One Half]]'' tends to talk in her sleep, saying things like:
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* Milly Thompson of Trigun talks in her sleep. Her words become more amusing when she's [[Happy Drunk|asleep due to drink]].
* Van of ''[[Gun X Sword]]'' murmurs the name of his dead fiancee when fevered. It has some plot significance because this is the first that his traveling companion has heard of Elena, and it leads her to learn more about Van's backstory.
* In a few ''[[Hayate the Combat Butler (Manga)|Hayate the Combat Butler]]'' bonus strips, Izumi, Riza and Miki overhear Hinagiku talking in her sleep about 'Sgt. Doughnut' and are confused. When we see her dreams, he is a human, with a giant doughnut for a head.
* In [[K-On!]]'s first training camp with Azusa, Ritsu abruptly sits up in her sleep and shouts, "CABBAGE!"
* [[Big Brother Mentor|England]] from [[Axis Powers Hetalia]] does it in one strip, revealing that [[Boisterous Bruiser|America]] used to wet his bed while he was a [[Cute Shotaro Boy]].
* When [[Inuyasha]] visits Kagome's room, he finds that she is sleeping.
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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 (Anime)|Best Student Council]]'', when Rino was knocked out, <ref> Rino hit her head on the tree</ref> <ref> Rino was unconscious not for a short time, but for a long time</ref> Pucchan tried to put some sense into Rino, [[Circling Birdies|who was seeing birds around her head]], but the attempt fails, for Rino dizzily says, "Uh... I couldn't eat another bite." This causes Pucchan to tilt backwards, and Pucchan says, "You just got attacked! This isn't the time to be sleeping!"
 
== [[Comic Books]] ==
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== [[Fan Fiction]] ==
* In ''[[Kyon: Big Damn Hero (Fanfic)|Kyon Big Damn Hero]]'', the first time Yuki teleports Kyon, Mikuru, and Kanae into her apartment Kanae sleeps through it and starts talking in her sleep.
{{quote| "Mmm, Sempai," Kanae murmured in her sleep with a quiet giggle. }}
 
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** Another outtake: "Klaus, the pinata is drooping..."
* The [[Distressed Damsel]] 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 (Filmfilm)|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 distressed--and a few seconds later, promptly falls asleep again.
{{quote| '''Ron:'''... Spiders...they want me to tapdance! I don't want to tapdance! <br />
'''Harry:''' [[Crowning Moment of Funny|You tell those spiders, Ron]]. }}
* ''[[Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade (Film)|Indiana Jones and Thethe Last Crusade]]'':
{{quote| '''Indy:''' How did you know she ''[Elsa Schneider]'' was a Nazi?<br />
'''Jones, Sr.:''' She talks in her sleep. }}
* The last conversation between Malcolm and Anna Crowe in ''[[The Sixth Sense (Film)|The Sixth Sense]]'' is held while Anna is fast asleep.
* ''[[Toy Story (Animation)|Toy Story]]'': Woody nearly wakes up a half-asleep Sid, who mutters "I don't wanna ride the pony."
** The gag was later repeated word-for-word in the videogame adaptation of ''[[The Warriors (Videovideo Gamegame)|The Warriors]]''.
* In ''[[So I Married an Axe Murderer]]'', Charlie is awakened by Harriet shouting "RALPH!" in her sleep.
* In ''The President's Analyst'', the title character's job stress takes a turn for the worse when returning home one day, he finds the head of the No Federal Agencies Were Harmed "FBR" informs him they removed his live-in girlfriend, citing national security as he talked in his sleep. Needless to say, he's quite upset that they know that fact.
* In ''[[The Neverending Story (Filmfilm)|The Neverending Story]]'', Falcor tells Atreyu that he talks in his sleep.
* In ''[[Little Nicky]]'' Nicky has fallen asleep in the parking lot and is roaring and talking gibberish in a demonic voice with a crowd gathered around him, he ends with saying "I will eat your heart!" which causes the crowd to run away.
* ''[[Atlantis: theThe Lost Empire (Disney)|Atlantis the Lost Empire]]'': "The redhead's got a gun..."
* In the ''[[Get Smart (TV)|Get Smart]]'' sequel movie ''Get Smart! Again!'', it is revealed that Max bought the Cone of Silence after CONTROL was disbanded and installed it in his bedroom because he talks in his sleep.
 
 
== [[Literature]] ==
* In ''[[Nineteen Eighty-Four|1984]]'', Winston's friend Parsons is arrested after his daughter allegedly saw him talking in his sleep: "Down with Big Brother, down with Big Brother." Later, they meet up and Parsons is proud of his daughter.
* ''[[Twilight (Literaturenovel)|Twilight]]'': Bella
* ''[[Dirk GentlysGently's Holistic Detective Agency]]'' mentions that when he was in college, Dirk developed a reputation for saying interesting things in his sleep after a large meal; it's heavily implied that it was a scam he'd set up so that his roommates would buy him large meals a lot.
* In ''[[The Shining]]'', Jack starts talking in his sleep, as he's slowly going insane.
* High fever + some pretty hefty meds = [[Dragonriders of Pern|Lord Jaxom]] blabbing everything about the queen egg rescue.
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Holding on so tight, loving her the way<br />
You used to love me. }}
* [[Florence and Thethe Machine|Florence + The Machine's]] "I'm Not Calling You A Liar" has these lines:
{{quote| There's a ghost in my mouth<br />
And it talks in my sleep }}
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{{quote| "Get away from me you headless monkey, I don't like your eyes!"}}
* ''[[Metal Gear Solid]] 3: Snake Eater''. During the game's final stealth sequence, you can tranquilize EVA. If you do so, she mumbles fairly dirty things in her sleep about you, The Boss and her dog, Fido.
** If you watch Snake in [[Metal Gear Solid 2 Sons of Liberty]], he would mumble in his sleep and then yell out, "Liquid!"
* Mario mumbles about Italian food if left asleep long enough in ''[[Super Mario 64]]''.
* Norma Beatty from [[Tales of Legendia (Video Game)|Tales of Legendia]] does this when she's asleep. And most of the time, [[Hilarity Ensues]].
** In ''[[Tales of Vesperia (Video Game)|Tales of Vesperia]]'', Judith mentions in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0WvkMqPvdQ an appropriately-titled skit] that [[Black Magician Girl|Rita]] chants spells in her sleep.
* In ''[[Final Fantasy VIII (Video Game)|Final Fantasy VIII]]'', both Squall and {{spoiler|his father}} Laguna are said to talk in their sleep.
* In ''[[Yo-Jin-Bo]]'', part of {{spoiler|Yo and Ittosai's}} [[Bad Dreams]] sequences include said guys talking in their sleep, mistaking Sayori for a character in the dream. {{spoiler|In Yo's case, it's his injured mom. For Ittosai, his [[Complete Monster]] of a father.}}
* In ''[[Magical Diary]]'', one of your roommates talks in her sleep. However, what she says is completely nonsensical (and randomised between plays). The only consistent thing is that it has something to do with [[Big Brother Attraction|her older brother]].
* In ''[[Tales of Monkey Island (Video Game)|Tales of Monkey Island]] Chapter 3: Lair of the Leviathan'', while Guybrush is performing first aid on Morgan to wake her up, we hear her mumble, while she's unconscious: "[[And This Is For|THIS is for JUGBENDER!]]" and "[[Getting Crap Past the Radar|Gomez... not on the carpet!]]"
 
 
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* [http://www.explosm.net/comics/1923/ This] ''[[Cyanide and Happiness]]'' strip.
* In [[Order of the Stick]]'s ''On the Origins of the PCs'', there is a guard on the diamond Haley steals, who is asleep and talking.
* In ''[[El Goonish Shive (Webcomic)|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 (Webcomic)|Sinfest]]'', [http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3276 the laptop does this in sleep mode, in binary].
* In ''[[Blue Yonder]]'', [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 [http://www.daisyowl.com/comic/2008-07-12 while being purchased] at his place of employment.
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== [[Web Original]] ==
* Subverted in ''[[The Secret Life of Dolls]]''; Cleo wonders if the Littlest Bella's talking in her sleep will provide important emotional information, as it originally did in ''[[Twilight (Literaturenovel)|Twilight]]'', but it's just rambling. Later on she pretends to talk in her sleep to attract the Littlest Edward, and Cleo has to exasperatedly point out to him that people don't talk in their sleep in ''complete sentences''.
* [[Homestar Runner|Strong Bad]] for some reason has a constant tendency to say the names of different [[Super Nintendo Entertainment System|SNES]] games while sleeping on the couch.
 
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* ''[[The Flintstones]]'': Wilma Flintstone had a sequence of nightmares where she'd wake up screaming for help. Fred would come running thinking she was attacked.
* ''[[The Fairly Odd Parents]]'': Timmy Turner ''wished'' in his sleep from the guilt of letting someone else take the blame for the abduction of Dimmsdale's mascot, Chompy the goat.
* In the ''[[Gargoyles (Animation)|Gargoyles]]'' episode "Heritage", Elisa is rendered unconscious, yet somehow seems to know when Goliath is in trouble, even though he is miles away from her, becoming restless in her bed and calling out to him.
* Misery in ''[[Ruby Gloom]]'' is a sleep-''singer''. When she's awake, her singing voice is shrill enough to break glass, but when she's asleep she has a terrific voice.
* In one episode of ''[[South Park]]'', Cartman rants about hippies in his sleep.
* One episode of ''[[Kidd Video]]'' centering around dreams turning to nightmares and then manifesting to attack the heroes used this method of helpfully letting the characters know what was about to attack them when one or another of them invariably fell asleep.
* A ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants (Animation)|SpongeBob SquarePants]]'' episode has SpongeBob muttering "Trick or Treat. Thank you," in his sleep.
** In another Squidward says "Thanks for the cookies Grandma" in his sleep.
* [[Futurama|Bender]] tends to talk about how he will kill all humans in his sleep.
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* An episode of ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]'' showed a cop nodding off on late-night duty, muttering "Hands in the air" in his sleep.
* Egon of ''[[The Real Ghostbusters]]'' talks in his sleep, usually about science experiments gone wrong. He has said things like "Sorry I burned down the garage, Mom." and "Don't worry, your hair will grow back."
* ''[[Adventure Time (Animation)|Adventure Time]]'': Jake in "Hitman" -
{{quote| '''Jake:''' No Rainicorn, don't eat him...}}
* On ''[[Total Drama World Tour]],'' [[Dogged Nice Guy|Cody]] mutters something about him getting together with [[Perky Goth|Gwen]], which is fine, since [[Stalker Withwith a Crush|Sierra]] had a "roller-skating accident."
* In ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' episode "Baby Cakes", Pumpkin and Pound, the Cake Twins, speak their first word in their sleep. It happens to be Pinkie Pie's name.
 
 
== [[Real Life]] ==
* When appearing as a guest/interviewee on [[Ellen De Generes|Ellen deGeneresDeGeneres]]' show, [[The Man Your Man Could Smell Like (Advertising)|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 ocurr outside of an REM phase (Yes that is possible), as during those phases the body is paralyzed.
** 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.
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