睡覺說夢話

Known officially as 'somniloquy', sleep talking is as mysterious as it can be entertaining to overhear. In the wee, dark hours of the night, many of us have spouted either complete jibberish, or something which, out of context, makes very little sense.

說夢話的官方說法爲'夢囈'，說夢話非常神祕，聽者還會覺得很有趣。黑暗的深夜，很多人都會胡言亂語，說一些沒有意義的不連貫的語句。

Somniloquy (as well as sleep walking) affects around one per cent of adults and there is a widely-held belief that it offers a tantalising glimpse into what's going on in someone else's subconscious - or what they're really like.

大約百分之一的成人會夢囈（和夢遊），而且人們普遍認爲，這給了人們窺探他人潛意識或他人真正喜歡什麼的機會。

Why we talk in our sleep and causes

爲什麼睡覺的時候會說夢話？

According to the National Sleep Foundation, there are a number of reasons as to why a person may talk in their sleep. The sleep talking could be induced by stress, mental health issues such as depression, sleep deprivation, day-time drowsiness, substance abuse or fever.

國家睡眠基金會表示，導致人們睡覺時說夢話的原因有很多。說夢話可能是由壓力、抑鬱等心理疾病問題、缺覺、白天嗜睡、藥物濫用或高燒所致。

If you suffer with other sleep disorders, such as nightmares, sleep apnoea and REM Sleep Behaviour Disorder, you may be more likely to talk in your sleep. And this is also true if sleep talking runs in your family - though they are not the cause of it, it's all down to external factors. The talking can occur at any stage during sleep, but typically happens in the early stages, and the lighter the sleep is, the more possible the talking should be.

如果你患有其它睡眠障礙，如做噩夢、睡眠呼吸暫停和快速眼部運動睡眠行爲障礙，那你就更有可能說夢話。如果家人有說夢話的習慣，你也可能會說夢話--儘管他們不是造成你說夢話的原因，但這完全取決於外部因素。說夢話可能在睡眠的任一階段發生，睡眠越淺，越有可能說夢話。

Some people talk gibberish, while other people will have entire conversations in their sleep.

有些人會胡言亂語，而有些人則會說一些完整的對話。

What it reveals about you

說夢話表明什麼？

Michael Breus, Ph.D., a sleep specialist and author of The Power Of When, spoke to SELF about what sleep talking does in fact reveal about a person. It turns out, sleep talking is totally meaningless, and not worth paying attention to or analysing.

邁克爾·布魯斯博士是一名睡眠專家，也是《時間的力量》（The Power Of When）一書的作者，他在接受SELF的訪談中提及了說夢話所揭露的個人品行。結果表明，說夢話完全沒有意義，不值得人們關注或分析。

"There's no data to suggest that [sleep talking] is either predictive in nature or kind of gives you a window into their subconscious or anything like that," Michael explains.

"尚未有數據表明說夢話能預測人的本質，也無法爲你提供一個窺探他人潛意識的窗口，"邁克爾解釋道。

It is, however, indicative of one thing: sleep deprivation. Michael adds, "Most of the time it's due to either something causing sleep deprivation or there already is a high level of sleep deprivation."

然而，說夢話的確表明你缺覺！邁克爾補充道："大多數情況下，要麼是某件事導致缺覺，要麼是本身就極度缺覺。"