Zeitschrift für Schlafstörungen: Behandlung und Pflege

Prevalence of sleep talking in association with behavior and quality sleep

Saisree kondala

Sleep talking also known as somniloquy. Sleep disorder in which a person talks during sleep without being aware of it. It may be dialogues or monologues, complete gibberish or mumbling of person during deep sleep. But mostly it is rarely short lived occurrence. It is a Parasomnia which happens only at specific part of sleep cycle, it may be also Catathrenia which is nocturnal groaning or REM sleep behavior disorder which makes person act physically during sleep