{"id":4421,"date":"2012-10-23T07:45:39","date_gmt":"2012-10-23T11:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/verastic.com\/?p=4421"},"modified":"2012-10-22T22:47:30","modified_gmt":"2012-10-23T02:47:30","slug":"ive-been-diagnosed-with-somniloquy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/verastic.com\/site\/personal\/ive-been-diagnosed-with-somniloquy.html","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ve Been Diagnosed With Somniloquy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For as long as I can remember, I have laughed in my sleep. I&#8217;m not talking about just smiling or chuckling; I&#8217;m talking about laughing out loud. I&#8217;m talking about laughing out so loud that I wake myself up, wondering where the sound is coming from. And then I realize that it is just my laughter. And whatever was making me laugh in my dream is no longer funny when I wake up.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/verastic.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Sleeping-While-Laughing.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4619\" title=\"Sleeping While Laughing\" src=\"https:\/\/verastic.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Sleeping-While-Laughing.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" srcset=\"https:\/\/verastic.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Sleeping-While-Laughing.jpg 640w, https:\/\/verastic.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Sleeping-While-Laughing-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When I used to sleep in the same room with my mom, she&#8217;d jolt me awake in the middle of my sleep-laughter. Now that I&#8217;m with Igwe, he does the same thing, too. He wakes me up when I&#8217;m sleep-laughing and looks at me with a worried and\u00a0inquisitive\u00a0look. Like I&#8217;m crazy or something.<\/p>\n<p>I have been judged, laughed at, pointed at, and &#8230; can&#8217;t remember what else. But after Igwe pointed his man-fingers at me, you will not believe what I discovered. So there I was working hard on my advertising price list, trying to figure out what to charge for what, and what did I hear? A chuckle! A chuckle that lasted for about three seconds. And then it dissipated and was replaced by a broad smile.<\/p>\n<p>I looked up the condition &#8211; you know everything is a condition &#8211; on Google, and sure enough, there is a name for it: somniloquy. This must be pronounced something like soliloquy. In soliloquy, people talk out loud. I know you know this already. So in somniloquy, sleep-laughing is the order of the day. According to what I read, copied, and pasted from a website that I now cannot find or remember, <em>&#8220;sleep laughing falls under\u00a0Somniloquy\u00a0or sleep talking. Sleep talking, or somniloquy, is the act of speaking during sleep. It&#8217;s a type of parasomnia &#8212; an abnormal behavior that takes place during sleep. It&#8217;s a very common occurrence and is not usually considered a medical problem.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>So it&#8217;s a condition &#8211; though not a medical problem &#8211; and I have it. So does Igwe. Our children should be interesting to observe. I might rear them in a museum. And I&#8217;ll charge a door fee to see them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1000awesomethings.com\/2011\/02\/11\/310-laughing-in-bed\/\" target=\"_blank\">Picture source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For as long as I can remember, I have laughed in my sleep. I&#8217;m not talking about just smiling or chuckling; I&#8217;m talking about laughing out loud. I&#8217;m talking about laughing out so loud that I wake myself up, wondering where the sound is coming from. 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