Do you talk in your sleep? You may be suffering from sleepiness.
Perhaps you have someone around you who expresses themselves in strange words while sleeping. Far from being isolated, this case indicates a disorder called somniloquia. Sleep specialists have taken a particular interest in it in recent years.
Sleepiness, word fromu Latin somnus (“sleep”) and loquor (“to speak”) designates, like insomnia or narcolepsy, a sleep disorder. It can occur at any age. Sf this phenomenon affects many individuals, the people who would be impacted on a daily basis represent around 1.5% of the population.
People with sleepiness talk aloud in their sleep. The way they speak varies and may consist of yelling or mumbling in a low voice. Most of the time, the speech is not very understandable and coherent. However, somniloquists sometimes utter intelligible words that often correspond to insults or vulgar terms.
In 2014, researchers from Pitié Salpêtrière carried out a study in 232 patients with somniloquia. According to them and them, “lThe quality of sleep is not deteriorated by talking while sleeping. Sleepwalking does not wake the person up, but sleepwalking does. So you can talk all night without feeling tired in the morning, ”explained lead author Ginevra Uguccioni.
According to National Sleep Foundation American, lack of sleep can however cause episodic bouts of sleepiness. Also according to the foundation, factors like stress, depression, alcohol and fever can also be linked to this strange sleep disorder.
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