Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Somniloquence or sleeptalking.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act or habit of talking in one's sleep; somniloquy.
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- noun The act or habit of
talking in one'ssleep .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun uttering speech while asleep
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Rational Review 2009
bilby commented on the word somniloquism
“William James, psychologist and philosopher, woke one night feeling he had solved the ultimate mystery of life. The following morning he found that this doggerel was the great insight he had written down:
Hogamous, higamous
Man is polygamous
Higamous, hogamous
Woman is monogamous.
"- Tony Percy, 'Hogamous, Higamous!', VERBATIM Vol. XXIX, No.3.
October 6, 2008
vanishedone commented on the word somniloquism
There's a similar story told by Bertrand Russell: 'There is a story of a man who got the experience from laughing gas; whenever he was under its influence, he knew the secret of the universe, but when he came to, he had forgotten it. At last, with immense effort, he wrote down the secret before the vision had faded. When completely recovered, he rushed to see what he had written. It was "A smell of petroleum prevails throughout." '
October 7, 2008