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Definition of Sleep talking
1. Noun. Uttering speech while asleep.
Generic synonyms: Sleeping, Process, Unconscious Process
Derivative terms: Somniloquist, Somniloquist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sleep Talking
Literary usage of Sleep talking
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Psychology of Dreams by William Sebastian Walsh (1920)
"CHAPTER XIII SOMNAMBULISM Walking in Sleep—Talking in Sleep—Laughing and Crying in
... Sleep—Talking ..."
2. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction by Reuben Percy, John Timbs (1836)
"The modifications of sleep talking are extremely variable, from the use of a few
incoherent expressions, to the distinct relation and long description of ..."
3. Proceedings of the American Medico-Psychological Association Annual Meeting by American Medico-Psychological Association (1904)
"A CASE OF sleep talking. By Dwight R. Burrell, Canandaigua, NY A young physician,
enjoying excellent opportunities, wrote much and with a good degree of ..."
4. The Philosophy of Sleep by Robert Macnish (1834)
"SLEEP-TALKING. THIS closely resembles somnambulism, and proceeds from similar
causes. In somnambulism, those parts of the brain which are awake call the ..."
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