Antics of the sleep deprived.

I've mentioned before that Ben has a habit of talking in his sleep.

Last night -- or I should say morning since we both went to bed around 5:30 am -- I was awaken by Ben tapping on my hand. Since I had just managed to fall asleep after about forty-five minutes of tossing and turning, I was not pleased.

It took a moment for me to process that Ben was "typing" on my hand.

Mena: Ben...What are you doing?
Ben: Wha?
Mena: What are you doing to my hand?
Ben: I lost the bile.
Mena: You lost what? Your bile? Are you going to throw-up?
Ben: No. I lost the FILE.
Mena: What file?
Ben: The TrackBack file.
Mena: You're asleep right now, right?
Ben: The file -- I lost it.
Mena: I'm going back to sleep and I'm sure you won't remember any of this when we wake up.

And of course, he didn't.

Related: How sleep deprived are you?

Comments

[Sydney]

That is so cute. Mine does the same thing, he mumble about figuring out the answer. to some complicated coding issue..only he doesn't remember in the morning. Once I sat up I was hot and want to adjust my covers. He wrapped his arms around me and said, "It's okay, lay down, it will be okay." I was like "What!" and he just tugged me back down. He didn't remember a bit of it in the morning. Geez, as annoying as it can be in the moment it is so cute.

[kismet]

my boyfriend often mutters in his sleep, but murmured dentist-office-esque french is still a bit rough for me, so half the time I have no idea what he's saying.

he also has occasionally jolted up to a sitting position in bed, and I end up having to coax him back to laying down. thankfully this doesn't happen very often though, as usually it wakes me up and then takes me awhile to realize I am the only one who is awake. heh

[Pfish]

Adam is always casting up "Chopsticks" to me.

Apparently when we first started sleeping together, I said something about "Chopsticks" while sleeping.

[Pfish]

Er...whoops. Didn't finish post.

Anyway, point being that "Chopsticks" is now the catchall term for whatever Lis says in her sleep.

[Christine]

Both my boyfriend and I will have conversations in our sleep, and we get a real kick out of asking each other as many questions as the other will answer (so we may use it to tease the living hell out of each other later). When I sleep-converse it's often amusing because apparently I'm very irate and angry, and I can be downright mean sometimes (my parents used to refuse to wake me up in HS because of it). At one point I was a field hand in a plant breeding operation for a university, and we were spending 8 hours a day planting little plants in the field, and I would simply konk out when I got home. My boyfriend would try to wake me up and I'd yell at him to leave me alone, I have to get all the plants in the ground today or they'll die and the innoculation will have been useless and things like that.

Just always ask as many questions as the sleeping person will answer. And try not to laugh too loudly when they answer, or you might wake them up ;)

[Jeff]

This is really wierd: this morning, in that "twilight" between sleep and wakefulness (which is always about 1 minute before the alarm is set to go off) I thought I had solved an MT coding question. The answer to a problem I'd been thinking about the day before just came to me.

Not the same as talking in your sleep but it's obvious we're all overworked, underpaid, and use our "downtime" with great efficiency.

[goneaway]

You lucky bastards. Unfortunately my significant other mumbles in her sleep in Korean which I only recognize a few words of and those are mainly food related.

I've been busted mumbling about "nested loops" in my sleep which is equally obscure to her.

Now, what we need is a script to get sleepy talk shipped off to Babelfish for an even less coherent though probably very funny translation.

[peter]

confusing @all

[rainer]

nice photos in your archives

[ultimate hgh]

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