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!
In my absence, I've been searching the depths of the world-wide-web for the key to start the engine on my sleep experiment. After hours of intense research, funky customer service with buy.com, stupid paypal issues, and non-existent package updates from USPS, it's finally here!
This TINY digi-recorder can store up to 200 hours of recording time with 3 selectable recording settings (LP, SP & HQ) all on a 512MB internal flash memory. With it's automatic, voice-activated record option, I can cut out all the dead silence from my slumber and record only the sounds and voices that this wondrous gadget picks up. The built in speaker/microphone on top picks up sounds clearly and plays back recordings audibly. It's very compact and easy to use thus far (I haven't test-uploaded anything yet so not sure how the downloading process works) and lays well on the side of my pillow!
FYI - Batteries not included... unless buy.com gypped me on that, too.
Chills ran down my spine after reading that and soon after, excitement. This recorder MUST be flippin' awesome. Got it for $30 on buy.com with free, upgraded shipping (only because of some issues I had with the order...and a few complaints...)
I've tested out the AVR mode on high-sensitivity and it's pretty cool. It picks up my heavy sighs/snores/rustling of my blankets and then stops recording when it's quiet again. But no sleep-talking! (...and no ghosts)
