No one is really 100% sure what our dreams mean -- if they even mean anything at all. Personally, I think they're just all the leftover thoughts in our psyche giving expression to themselves before vanishing into the ether.
The random nature of our dreams shows itself even more clearly when we speak in our sleep!
The people below took to the internet to share their strangest funniest 'sleep talker' stories. Now get me that shovel so we can go to the ball!
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71. Book worms, presumably
70. Stress dreams are the worst
69. Welcome to the show
68. Light the way home
67. She sounds delicious
Roommate in college: "Nooo... Get her off me... Too much blubber... (long pause) ...Smells like an enchilada..."
66. Making dad jokes in his sleep
65. Sleeper agent
64. Where's the money?!
63. Pillow fight
62. Veteran of the colander war
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61. Sleeping dogs lie
60. The giggler
59. A little fishy
58. Burn the spreadsheets
57. Nobody puts baby in a corner
56. Muahahahaha
55. The convincing ones are scary
54. Mean bosses
53. Imaginary side women
52. Midnight decapitation
51. Zzzzzzz
50. Unconscious pranking
49. Counting sheep
48. I have to do everything around here...
47. All about that life insurance
46. Not so funny now
45. The soup thing
44. I can hold it
43. Sandra Bullock over here
42. I am the spring berry
41. That's soooo weird
I overheard my wife accurately recite my social security number aloud whilst sleeping. When I told her about it the next morning she said I had to have been making that up, as she definitely does not know my social security number. I didn't believe her and made her swear to me and on our marriage that she wasn't lying, and she said that if someone was pointing a gun to my head and that he would pull the trigger unless she accurately recited my social security number, she'd tell me she loved me and that she'd remember me fondly once I died. It was the oddest thing.
40. Mices are nices
39. Horror movie kid
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38. Summer camp sleep talkers
37. The lazy sleeper
36. Yeah, that house was haunted
35. Up the spout
34. Put it in
33. Never rock the boat
32. All the ladies love my coupons
31. Chaos is a ladder
30. I like the way you move
29. Meta sleep talker
28. Unconscious shopper
27. We are all Batman
One night I woke up in the middle of the night (from a bad dream where Gollum was chasing me) to the dude, my roommate, straight writhing in his bed, throwing punches and kicks, grunting, just really struggling against some unknown power. I kinda watch for a minute, making sure he’s ok and not having a seizure, but this was pretty normal for him.
After a minute of being slightly entertained by this, I lay back down, just in time for him to take a BIG breath, hold it, paused with his fists in the air, and then let it out and lay straight back down, stiff as a board, no movement or breathing.
He holds that for like a good 10 seconds and I’m pretty sure he’s not breathing. I’m starting to worry a bit, and finally he goes,
“I’m Batman.”
And then resumes fighting whatever it was he was fighting.
I laughed for a solid 30 minutes and it took me hours to get back to sleep.
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26. Your leaf game is weak
My wife swears up and down, that while she was reading before bed, I said: "I see you didn't bring the bag of leaves, so I know you're not serious."
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25. The only problem I have with ghosts is that they don't pay rent
I used to have dreams that there was a lady with red hair who would stand in the corner of my bedroom and watch me. Never told anyone about it. Then one day my friend brought his "psychic" girlfriend over, and she looked towards that corner and said, "Did you know a woman with bright red hair lives in here with you?"
Yes, it's true. I understand the possibility that I could've told someone about it and forgot. But I don't think so. It freaked me out when the girlfriend said that. I laughed nervously and asked her if anyone else was there. She said no. I proceeded to try not to think about it.
I tried talking to her. In my dreams, she never said anything back. While awake, I looked at the corner and told her I appreciated her watching over me, but I was good and it would be fine if she wanted to hang out somewhere else. She still never said anything back. I've moved since, but for all I know she is still there.
24. You can't take the sky from me
My wife once told me that I said; "How come you get the cool spaceships and I get the Jetsons?" Then she made the Jetsons flying car sound and went back to sleep.
23. So you reverse robbed him?
I pulled a pellet gun on my dad while sleepwalking to pay him back a nickel that I apparently owed him.
Absolutely insisted that he take the money too.
Looking back on it, I can somewhat figure out how it all transpired. I was big into DOOM at the time, played it for hours on end.
I also got a new handgun-style pellet gun, which I kept in my room.
I have no idea why I owed my dad a nickel though...
Fortunately, he took the whole thing in stride, basically disarmed me, took the nickel, turned me around and sent me back to bed.
22. Dude just wanted a burger
My ex used to sometimes talk in her sleep and one night I was up really late and was high just watching TV and I heard her say, very clearly to me, "Let's get McDonald's."
I thought to myself that it was a great idea, so I got up and started getting dressed. After I was done I went back to wake her and she was out. I shook her a couple of times and said, "Let's go, I'm ready." She finally woke up and said, "What? No, it's late. Go to bed."
I was so disappointed because I totally thought she wanted to go and I was too high to drive, so I had to get undressed again and go back to bed. Looking back, I totally should have known that was just her talking in her sleep, but I was so hungry I did not want to accept that as the reality and chose to believe I was gonna get some McDonald's.
21. Kids are crazy, man
One time when I was around 6, I came downstairs from my room, sleepwalking, walk past my parents and go into the pantry. My dad walks up to me to see me going through the pantry.
Dad "what are you doing?"
Me "looking"
D "what are you looking for?"
M "the box"
D "..... why don't you go back to bed"
M "okay"
I then apparently walked past my brother who, thinking I was messing with my parents, goes to give me a high-five. I then limbo under his hand and go back to bed. I have no recollection of this at all.
On another occasion, I walked into this same brother's room and proclaim how I need to pee then walk to the bathroom and then back to bed.
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20. Hey at least she's pretty
About 10 years ago, I had just started dating this girl I'd had a massive crush on. We were fresh out of high school, and her parents went out of town for a weekend. I was going to finally sleep in her bed with her, and I was amped.
I have a bit of trouble sleeping in a new place, so I was awake after she'd already knocked out. I tried to keep my eyes closed and let sleep come. I started to drift off, but I heard a sound like scratching on wood, quick and getting faster. I opened my eyes and oriented myself again. It wasn't scratching. It was whispering. And it was getting louder.
My girlfriend was rapidly whispering, "She is the devil in disguise she is the devil in disguise…" I turned my head to look at her, and her eyes were wide open, looking directly at me, but glossed over, like she was looking through me. The whispering continued until she stopped mid-sentence: "She is the devil in disguise she is the dev— He can't help you."
She closed her eyes and went rolled over, leaving me with a very odd feeling. I asked her about it in the morning, and she said she used to talk in her sleep a lot as a kid.
I still have no idea if she was messing with me or if she just had odd sleep habits.
19. Poor kid just wanted some cuddles
So little me had a nightmare and went to my parent's room to tell my mom and get a cuddle so I could go back to sleep. I knocked on the door and opens it very quietly so only my mom wakes and not my dad, since mom is a very light sleeper and dad a heavy one. I get in and at that moment dad jumps out of bed and shouts "I DO NOT WANT TO SEE YOU HERE AGAIN!" I fled up the stairs and cried and mom followed me and told me she didn't know what happened either. Dad says he doesn't remember it but I sure do.
18. He was probably a replicant and was performing his nightly firmware update
My ex used to talk in his sleep all the time. I would write down what he said or start talking to him to have whole conversations with him in his sleep. In the morning, I would put them as statuses on Facebook because I thought it was hilarious. The one that scared me though was when I was in the other room with my headphones on, around 2 am. I was playing a game with people and, out of nowhere, I heard my ex loudly, robotically go, "HA. HA HA. HA. HA. HA. HA."
It was like someone broke his laugh. I walked in there to see what was happening but he was asleep again and silent.
17. It's ok, the monsters can't hurt you now
I share a room with my brother who has struggled with night terrors since he was a little kid. One night I woke up to him screaming like he was being flayed alive, you know the high pitched, voice cracking screaming, and between screams he was saying "ITS TOUCHING ME! SOMETHING IS TOUCHING ME!" along with a bunch of other garbled speech. It took about a minute for him to wake up.
After that, I was awake all night long. Honestly, hearing him scream with that much terror was scarier than what he was saying. When I first woke up, I thought there was an intruder in our room. We're lucky the police weren't called.
16. Tell me again of Lord Quetzldiolophysus
My husband talks in his sleep, but not like a sentence here or there. He does monologues. He has conversations. Lengthy conversations. Sometimes in weird accents. Often as different personas. Occasionally in fake foreign languages. I often record them once he gets going.
The weirdest ever was as follows:
My brother and I were fooling around with our tv in the family room and turned on a music channel that had spa-type chill zen music, but then got distracted and left the room. Husband, finding the music calming and peaceful, laid down on the sofa and promptly falls asleep. Brother and I return to the room, husband starts talking over the zen music, and I start recording. The following is an exact transcript of the recording:
as the crow flies and the eagle swoops,
in the clouds they saw him coming,
a blood red, descending upon the people.
and the high priests took the virgin into the temple
and said “we must protect you, for he is angered”.
and the farmers walked out into their fields
with their tools and they said
“lord quetzldiolophysus, why have you felt smitten by us?”
they would not get a reply that day.
into the temple they ran
they ran faster
as the rains began to fall.
puddles formed beneath the feet.
they remembered the tales of their ancestors
they remembered the blessings that had been bestowed
and they wondered whether the blessings would stay for me and my progeny.
but quetzldiolophysus would have none of it,
for he decided to wipe them off the face of the earth once and for all.
the next day the sun rose upon the barren landscape
and a single virgin emerged from the temple.
all her people were decimated.
all the lambs and oxen lay barren and wasted.
ashed smoldered in fire.
and yet the birds sang,
the crow swooped,
and the eagle looked on.
she stayed there in that temple until she died of dehydration and hunger.
emaciated, she curled up and
in her dying breath she heard the sweet whisper
of quetzldiolophysus tell her that
he will return again.
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15. The devil made me do it
I get sleep paralysis and I experience this weird demonic possession stuff with basically the demons taking over my body. It turns out the whole time I thought this was exclusively in my head my wife informed me that I growl and stare at her when that's happening, so that was a nice bonding moment for both of us.
Ok, so the creepiest thing that has happened as a result of all this occurred only a couple months ago when we were sleeping and I started to experience sleep paralysis and the usual "the devil is going to take your body" shenanigans. Only this time, I am positioned to be looking at a mirror from the bed. I see a figure in the mirror standing over the bed and for some unknown reason I say "You know everything is ok when you smile and the man in the mirror smiles back". I recall doing my best to force myself to smile, at which point the sound of shattering glass wakes me up.
Turns out a glass covering for a light fell off and shattered on the floor at coincidentally the exact same time I decided to make that creepy declaration. What a fun and silly coincidence that kept us both from sleeping the rest of the night and turning all the lights on in the house and finding a Bible to read together. I should probably start sleeping with a humidifier in the room filled with holy water or something.
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14. So what did she say
My girlfriend is a super deep sleeper, which means she does some weird stuff when she’s passed out. Thankfully she usually doesn’t talk a ton, but since her nightmares don’t wake her up like they do most people, sleep screaming apparently happens (yeah, not fun). However, that doesn’t work even begin to touch the creepiest thing she did in her sleep.
To set the scene, it’s about 2 in the morning, and my girlfriend and I had spent a busy afternoon doing house chores, so she was extra passed out. All of a sudden she starts doing this twitching and grumbling that means she’s having a nightmare, so I started trying to wake her up. As I’m starting to lean over her eyes shoot open and suddenly she’s sitting bolt upright. My girlfriend leans over, and says in a low whisper:
“This morning I need you to ask me if we did the laundry.”
I get about halfway through explaining that we already did the housework when she raises a finger to her lips and hushes me sharply. She leaned in closer and broke into a whisper underscored by an unsettling sense of urgency:
“No, listen, you have to be quiet. I need you to ask me if we did the dishes when we wake up.”
Confused, but now sufficiently freaked out, I nod to indicate agreement. She meets my eyes, looking somewhere between angry and scared before she replies,
“When you ask, if I say we need to, it’s not me anymore. Run.”
And with that, she collapsed back onto her pillow and was out again in literally maybe two seconds. I, on the other hand, didn’t sleep that night.
13. The demons are real but they can't hurt you if you don't let them
My formidable husband woke up (or so I thought....) wide-eyed some years after our wedding and looked at me and behind me and began screaming like a child and trying to cover his mouth while hyperventilating in the middle of the night. His face was twisted into pure terror and I was sure there was an intruder behind me.
As I jumped up and switched sides to get behind him, he just kept looking at me like there was a demon or slender man behind me. I screamed "Jesus, Jeff, OMG what IS IT?" And he goes "Please don't talk...please don't talk" in this quiet little-boy voice. I reached out to him out of fear and he recoiled saying "Don't get any closer, please don't get any closer".
I said, "I'M YOUR WIFE DON'T LEAVE ME ALONE WHAT IS IT?!?!" And then he literally started crying, I mean no tears, but all the crying noises, and he said "You're not my wife. My wife wouldn't have teeth like that and her head wouldn't be backward".
Freakiest. Night. Of. Life.
He later woke up with no memory of the event, while I locked myself in the bathroom and called my mom.
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12. Mom, I don't wanna share a room with Timmy anymore
I shared a room with my brother growing up. He had issues with sleep talking as well as sleepwalking, this was a regular thing for a few years that he has since grown out of.
There was one time where he made it all the way outside to the middle of the street while yelling for my sister (who was sleeping in the next room over).
But the scary things were fairly regular. Ya see he wouldn't just sleepwalk. Sometimes he would just sit up in his bed and stare at you, eyes wide open, while still completely asleep. Sometimes the stares would be accompanied by loud yelling of gibberish. Sometimes he would scream bloody murder to the point that my mom would come rushing into the room to see if he was okay.
I'll never forget the night I woke up with the feeling that someone was watching me. Low and behold I look over and there's my brother, just staring at me. Not speaking, just watching. I try to talk to him and get no response. Then he yells some gibberish at me and lays down in one motion. It was honestly like sharing the room with a possessed person.
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11. How precious
My father likes to doze off on the couch pretty often, and sleep talks quite a lot, but is a very affectionate sleeptalker, as opposed to when he's awake.
Dad: You gotta go get it.
Me: get what?
Dad: I'll get it.
Me: (Amused) Alright, let me know when you have it.
Dad: Thanks for worrying about me.
Me: Do you have it yet?
Dad: I do. Love you.
Me: Love you too?
Dad: I'm so proud of you. Love you so much. Bye.
Me: Love you too, bye.
I think he thought he was having a phone call or something. He does the same thing for my mother, murmuring that she's beautiful and complimenting her hair.
10. This is how you end up on a list
I regularly talk in my sleep, I'm 58. One night my wife decided to set up a voice-activated recording to capture my ramblings. In the morning we played the recording back. The only recording was a voice that can only be described as a frightened small boy saying "please don't let me die, please don't let me die". It creeped us both out.
Another time we were both really tired and went to bed very early, at about 9 pm. At that time we lived in a small terraced house with a tiny garden (back yard) overlooked on all sides by other houses and a children's play area (the reason for this detail will become apparent). About half an hour later 9.30 pm it was dark and I leapt out of bed, stark bollock naked and switched the overhead light on, I then went to the window and pulled the curtains back repeatedly opening and closing them. My wife shouted, "what are you doing?" I apparently said "I've got to signal to this helicopter so it can land in the garden." I'm not sure how many small children I traumatized that night and I'm pretty sure no helicopter even if it existed could not have landed in a yard 15 feet square!
9. Way to go, mom
When we were young my mom walked into our bedroom to shut the window and apparently my brother sat bolt upright in bed and stared at her.
Mom: Uh, hey Dave, I was just shut--
Dave (In a much deeper voice than usual) : GET OUT!
Mom: Sorry, I was...
Dave: GET OUT!
Then he started making noises that she described as "Latin" and it was that point that she quickly left the room and didn't come back that night.
Of course, she left me sleeping in the bunk bed beneath him.
8. I wish I could do this to annoying customers
My husband hasn't said anything creepy, but we both have said some very weird things.
He told me that one night I handed him a stuffed animal (one of those banana cats) and said, "You can keep the boy. May he serve you well." In my defense, I binged watched Game of Thrones that day.
He has said some dumb things. A lot of them were when he worked with fast food. "Yes, sir, your collar is, indeed, popped" is my personal favorite. And:
SO: What can I get you to drink?
Me: Dr. Pepper.
SO: Diet Coke it is!
7. This is where the "kids can see ghosts" stories come from
My young son was asleep on the couch late one night and sat straight up and said "Shhh...they'll hear us". I asked him what he was talking about and he gestured to the large picture window next to the couch and said "Them. They're right outside" then laid back down and continued sleeping. Completely freaked me out. Can't say I slept much that night even with the door locks triple checked.
6. Sounds like a bad time
One night when I was like 6, I ended up walking to the bathroom asleep. I guess I brushed my teeth and attempted to go to the bathroom, but given I was a tiny kid and the toilet seat was up I just sat INTO the toilet.
Imagine being a kid waking up chilling in a toilet, in the pitch black, with toothpaste in your mouth, and not a single clue as to where you are.
0/10 would not recommend.
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5. This is honestly the least interesting part of the story
In my early 20s I lived with my high school sweetheart and another roommate.
One night the other roommate busted in our room while we were sleeping and shouted “Welp! Looks like I’m going to jail!” Slammed our bedroom door and stormed out. My sweetheart raised her head off my chest, looked me straight in the eyes and said “I’m a rhinoceros.” And went right back to sleep like nothing ever happened.
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4. Wife uses Future Sight! It's Super Effective!
“Don’t go to work tomorrow!” My wife shouted at like 1:30 in the morning. I didn’t think anything of it until we woke up in the morning. I asked her if she remembered saying something and she didn’t.
I decided not to go to work because I thought something was wrong with her and wanted to take care of her. My friend from work called me later and told me that this lady ran in and started shouting about how I messed up some order for him, and the boss was going to fire me but I wasn’t there. (Our boss is very old who doesn’t know how to work technology, so he didn’t call or anything.) I ended up just quitting because I didn’t want me getting fired to be on my resume. It still freaks me out how she knew about the future sub-consciously.
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3. Dude didn't even get his macaroni
My parents told me one time while they were watching a little bit of TV in their bedroom, I walked in and screamed something along the lines of
"Are you having a good sleep cause I ain't and I'm hungry. I want some macaroni."
And when they saw I was sleepwalking, they just told me to go back to bed and I supposedly got mad to the point where I just threw a water bottle of their nightstand at my dad and booked it. I have no memory of it what so ever but they have caught me on camera sleepwalking at one point because they heard me walk around the house for 10 minutes before going to their room to yell about more random nonsense.
2. He's not wrong
I've found that my boyfriend gets annoyed when I interfere with his sleep talk.
This one time I heard, "We will miss you, Diana."
"Who's Diana?" I asked in confused, half-awake mode.
"THE PRINCESS OF WALES!" he snarled, as if I was being extremely disrespectful to the deceased.