BS: Somniloquy

Subject: BS: Somniloquy
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 23 Jun 16 - 11:25 PM

"Somniloquy": the word I found in Wikipedia for talking in one's sleep.

Not an uncommon phenomenon, and probably pretty incomprehensible and meaningless in general; but a striking instance has just come back to my memory many years later, which I wish to place on record.

One night in the mid-1960s, while my late first wife was a mature student at Cambridge {see, if interested, her Wikipedia entry sn Valerie Grosvenor Myer}, she suddenly exclaimed in the middle of the night, with absolute clarity and in the most authoritative of tones

"The populace must be kept awake — and amused!"

She had no recollection next morning of having said it, or of any sort of dream or dormant thought-process that might have inspired so peculiar and portentous a proclamation.

Anyone any other such 'sominiloquent' examples?

≈M≈

Subject: RE: BS: Somniloquy
From: Megan L
Date: 24 Jun 16 - 01:52 AM

MGM my husband was a simple man, that's not to say he was not intelligent but he was happiest when working with wood(he was a joiner all his life)and as an islander never used an six letter word when a 3 letter one would do.

He was having a lot of bother with his boss who had been taking the tax and holiday stamp money from the boys but not buying the stamps or paying the tax. The tax man was breathing down Dauvits neck for unpaid tax. So you can imagine my surprise one night as I was reading beside a sleeping Dauvit to hear a clear hard voice say "Listen you moronic troglodyte pay us our due"

The next day he a letter to the tax man accompanied with his payslips showing the amount of tax that had been deducted from his wages