Citations:sleeptalker

English citations of sleeptalker

Noun: "a person who talks unconsciously in their sleep"

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• 1957 — Arthur Mizener, "Introduction", in F. Scott Fitzgerald, Afternoon of an Author: A Selection of Uncollected Stories and Essays, Scribner (1956), page 5:

  Indeed, they are made to blur together as do events in the carefully calculated confusion of the fictional sleeptalker like Lady Macbeth and Molly Bloom […]

• 2007 — Lota A Teh, "Consciousness and Its Altered States", in General Psychology for Filipino College Students (eds. Lota A. Teh & Elizabeth J. Macapagal), Ateneo de Manila University Press (2007), →ISBN, page 113:

  The speech of the sleeptalker makes little sense.

• 2008 — Christian Jarrett & Joannah Ginsburg, This Book Has Issues: Adventures in Popular Psychology, Continuum (2008), →ISBN, page 141:

  Often they will wake when their sleeptalking startles another person, who then makes a noise at being woken up, waking the sleeptalker to ask the other "What's wrong?"

• 2011 — Lilith Saintcrow, Unfallen, Orbit (2011), →ISBN, unnumbered page:

  She muttered something in response, a slurred jumble like a sleeptalker.