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Dreaming Before I Wake Up; Talking Out Loud While Interacting With The Dream

by Jack Johnson
(Anaheim, CA USA)

On some occasions, this morning included, I have a vidid dream in which I am having a conversation with someone. As I awake, I'm still talking to the person in my dream. I can't stop talking because I want this person to finish hearing my thought.


But there is no other person. It is all a dream. Yet the talking out loud is real. And I get confused why the person in the dream doesn't answer me.

Then when I'm fully awake I nevertheless continue to talk. When I'm finished talking, and I realize that it was all a dream and no one is there to answer me, I feel stupid. Why stupid? Because I realize that it was a dream yet I can't control the talking - I must finish my thought, and to finish my thought.

I continue to talk out loud to the person who existed only in my dream. It bothers me because at the moment that I realize it's all a dream I can't figure out why I continue to talk anyway.

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Mar 21, 2015
 Sleep talking NEW
by: Anonymous

I continue talking after I realize I am in a dream. I sleep talk just about every night, and wake myself up talking. My sleep talking seems to occur mostly in the mornings before I am due to get up.
Dec 01, 2015
 Name of this sleeping disorder NEW
by: Uptown ep

My girlfriend has told me that I wake up during sleep and have conversations and it is apparent that I am n a dream she talks to me but I am holding a conversation with my dream and I make no sense to her.

What is this called ?

The conversations May last from 1-5 minutes
Jan 16, 2016
 Conversation to others while dreaming NEW
by: Anonymous

I have been sleep talking since I was a little girl probably since the age of 4, I am now 23 years of age and I continue to have nightmares and sleep talking episodes, last night I awoke myself talking to someone else in the room, in my dream he was really there and then when i became conscious of what I was thinking and saying I said out loud who am I talking to? No one is here.. This really freaks me out , and I really don't like to sleep because I am afraid of what I will dream of or rather, say out loud..
Jun 28, 2018
 What's the name of this dream? NEW
by: Anonymous

I'll have a dream that I'm talking to someone and when they ask me a question I'll answer but when I finish the person is confused and I realize I'm awake, it was the same scene, same person, but wrong conversation. It makes me feel dumb and probably look crazy. What is this called?
Sep 24, 2018
 Sleep talking to a person in your dream NEW
by: Kellie

This has happened to me a few times now im unsure why its happening i wake myself having the conversation but continuing to chat even im awake
Sep 04, 2022
 Same thing happens to me! NEW
by: Anonymous

I have been doing the same thing lately. I continue to talk and say what I have to say, even though I am aware that I am now awake. It's like being compelled to do so. I want to know why. I am 75 now but still writing as aournalist and am, as far as I know, okay!
Oct 12, 2023
 What can be done. NEW
by: Esther

I talk in my dreams every night. I feel like another person used my body at that time. She has her own personality. She goes places to help people, she has powers (she can fly and go through walls.). She is always in charge. she can sing, laugh, talk trash, and always want to give advice. I would like someone to contact me here someone who can relate to my situation. e-mail estherharper@bellsouth.net.

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