Mysteriously Stagnant...

It appears my after-hour conversations have ceased to entertain my recorder. Although an unfortunate circumstance this is, there is light at the end of the tunnel...

Surreality is right this way... follow the light...!!!

The Wait

I don't understand...

After listening to hours of me snoring, tossing, turning, and rustling my blankets, I have failed to capture the very essence of this entire blog on my new recorder...

I think my sleep-talking disorder is "recorder-shy." The fact that I'm consciously trying to capture my somniloquy and setting up this recorder every night before snoozing, I think, is preventing this natural process to occur. I also don't think it helps that I purposely turn and face the recorder in hopes to verbalize louder and clearer into the mic, which can be uncomfortable. I've also tested out both the long-recording option as well as the automatic voice recording (AVR) mode and neither have succeeded in picking up any useful sounds.
To top it off, my method of exhausting myself into sleep-talking mode has back-fired and I've upped my cups of coffee from 0 to 2 during the workday. I never used to drink coffee!!! (Although, my smiling-rate and hyperness has increased exponentially...)

I did notice one thing that is worth noting...

.........................I chuckle in my sleep.......................

It's brief and sounds something like, "heh heh." Although it doesn't happen every night, it's happened a few nights so far and it's clearly not a sigh or cough. Last night, my short-lived chortle was somewhat smug. Like I was a power-hungry, obnoxious, self-centered responding to a commoner, who mustered up enough courage to ask for a second bowl of gruel.

Does this count as sleep-talking???????

hm...

I'll keep trying my methods and hope to have some fun recordings to share with you soon. In the meantime, I'm completely open to suggestions you have or any logs of your sleep-talking escapades!

The Medical Scribe

Name: Daniel
Age: Quarter-life crisis
Persona: Medical Scribe (The person in ER that writes everything down/Dr.'s Wingman)
Quirks: Heavy sleep-talker

As a fellow heavy-sleeper, Daniel has slept through natural disasters (ie: earthquakes) as well as shrieking fire alarms.

His awesome girlfriend of years simply describes him to be "somebody who definitely thinks before he talks." One friend characterizes him as "confused and trusting."
(Due to the PG-13 status of this blog, I can't quote the rest of this statement...)

From my observations, Mr. Daniel's "Persona" is polite, calm, and intuitive of people and his surroundings. His profession requires thick-skin and a strong stomach (for those who've been inside the ER, you see some pretty wicked sh*t...)

On to the good stuff! Here are some logs of Daniel's slumbering tête-à-tête.

GF: Daniel, wake upppp
[raining outside]
Daniel: I can't brush my teeth with snow.

GF: Daniel wake up... we have to go...
Daniel: The runners all have to start at the same line and wear the same uniform.

GF: [hitting him] Daniel.. GET UPPP!
Daniel: ... zacket away!!
GF: ... WHAT?? [laughs]
Daniel: THE ZOOM BUG!

[alarm goes off]
Daniel: Does that sound like renal colic to you??
GF: WHAT?? [laughs]
Daniel: [laughs] iono...

GF: Daniel... wake UPPP
Daniel: I want to be numerous like you!!

There's a pattern! Perhaps Daniel's sleep-talking is triggered by sounds, which disrupts his transition from one sleeping stage to the other.

His GF explains this phenomenon occurs when Daniel's REALLY tired [Fatigue and stress are some main causes of sleep-talking]

GF: "like the 'runners all have to wear same blahblah..' is when he was TKD (Taekwondo) competition team captain. The 'zacket away..' i think he was cursing at me in his private language cause i was like GET UPPPPPPPP!! 'Renal colic...' was after a 10hr shift at the ER.."

So, Daniel's sleeptalking is potentially triggered by sounds... I wonder what triggers mine? I always seem to start the conversation...