So, I snore and talk in my sleep.

Speed Racer

My roommate just informed me of the fact that I wake him up a lot at night with sleep-talking and snoring. Is there anything I can do to make that, you know, not happen?

MoSiAc

Don't breathe right strips fix snoring?

Talking not sure about. I talk in my sleep apparently and the only thing that has been found to shut me up is stroking the top of my head like a puppy (don't ask).

Casual

Snoring can be sorted by those nose strips or surgery if its a massive problem. As for the talking I'm not sure there's a lot you can do about that. Just make sure your bedroom door is closed? Perhaps the problem here is that your room mate is a light sleeper.

Speed Racer

Casual wrote: »

Snoring can be sorted by those nose strips or surgery if its a massive problem. As for the talking I'm not sure there's a lot you can do about that. Just make sure your bedroom door is closed? Perhaps the problem here is that your room mate is a light sleeper.

It's a college dorm, we're in the same room together.

For tonight I'm just gonna attach something on my back to keep from rolling onto it to reduce the snoring, and I'll go out and get some nose strips tomorrow. I've been looking around and there's really nothing I can do about the sleep-talking. I thought about somehow sealing my mouth shut, but other than the fact that there seems to just be something inherently stupid in that solution, I doubt it would help, since I could still make grunting noises or whatever.

onceling

If you are overweight, losing weight has a really good possibility of helping with the snoring.

The talking depends if you are actually a restless sleeper or not. If you're tossing and turning you can probably do something about it, if you aren't, its probably not something you can help.

If you are a poor sleeper, the usual suspects to recommend:

- eat early, long before bed
- sleep consistent hours and get 'enough' sleep for a normal person
- exercise
- reduce stress in your life

RUNN1NGMAN

Buy your roommate a supply of foam earplugs. He might not like it, but realistically there's nothing you can do to fix the snoring and talking. You might be able to lessen the snoring, but it's highly unlikely you will be able to eliminate it entirely.

Iceman.USAF

I find that I talk way more when I am sleep deprived. Just me, may not work for you.

illig

RUNN1NGMAN wrote: »

Buy your roommate a supply of foam earplugs. He might not like it, but realistically there's nothing you can do to fix the snoring and talking. You might be able to lessen the snoring, but it's highly unlikely you will be able to eliminate it entirely.

QFT... Foam earplugs got me through college

one of my roommates talked in his sleep... in two languages

and another watched Fox News 24/7... this was way worse than the sleep talking

tony_important

onceling wrote: »

If you are overweight, losing weight has a really good possibility of helping with the snoring.

Losing weight knocked quite a few decibels from my log sawing

Hobbit0815

Definitely tell him to get earplugs. You can try some of those nose strips.. but really, there's not anything you can do about sleep talking.. besides the aforementioned (obviously) silly idea of sealing your mouth shut, lol..

Caramel Genocide

I've seen a commercial for some sort of mouthpiece worn at night that holds your lower jaw slightly forward to help stop snoring. I haven't got a clue as to what the name of the product was, or if it also holds your mouth closed, but it may also help with the talking.

truck-a-sauras

another sleep talker here. I also find it happens more often when I'm stressed, or not getting enough regular sleep or exercise.

Thylacine

I talk in my sleep sometimes, I have since I was a kid. It's not an all the time thing, but it's not rare. What works for me is whoever's with me will just tell me "go to sleep" or "quiet/stop talking" or something along those lines, and I do it. If your roommate could do that without yelling it mean and waking you up, it might work. I never remember people telling me these things, but I'm still coherent enough to take directions.

On the other hand...if I start talking in my sleep and people ask me questions they get really weird answers.

TK-42-1

i can vouch for the breathe right strips. i snore pretty badly and these have pretty much eliminated that problem. plus i feel a lot more refreshed when i wake up so its win/win for my and my girl

Iceman.USAF

Thylacine wrote: »

I talk in my sleep sometimes, I have since I was a kid. It's not an all the time thing, but it's not rare. What works for me is whoever's with me will just tell me "go to sleep" or "quiet/stop talking" or something along those lines, and I do it. If your roommate could do that without yelling it mean and waking you up, it might work. I never remember people telling me these things, but I'm still coherent enough to take directions.

On the other hand...if I start talking in my sleep and people ask me questions they get really weird answers.

You're lucky your roommate was nice. I would have recorded that shit.

Thylacine

Iceman.USAF wrote: »

Thylacine wrote: »

On the other hand...if I start talking in my sleep and people ask me questions they get really weird answers.

You're lucky your roommate was nice. I would have recorded that shit.

Well, my "roommates" have consisted of my mom when I was a little kid, and my boyfriend(now husband) so I've been fortunate. ;-)

One of the funniest was when I kept asking my husband why he was dressed like a pretty pretty princess....

My husband talks in his sleep occasionally too. He says funny gaming stuff such as "Why do we have to spend skill points on sleep? Why do we have to roll for it, it seems so natural."

By far the funniest though was once I was trying to wake him up for sex and he starts making whiny noises. I ask him what's wrong and he says he's upset, I ask why and he says "Because we're out of condoms and the dinosaurs ran away."

We were out of condoms...but he was also dreaming about the D&D game we'd played that afternoon where our dinosaur mounts had run away. I don't think I'll ever let him live that one down.

Shadowfire

TK-42-1 wrote: »

i can vouch for the breathe right strips. i snore pretty badly and these have pretty much eliminated that problem. plus i feel a lot more refreshed when i wake up so its win/win for my and my girl

I tried these for a few nights, and my nose bled every single night.

YMMV, I guess...

1ddqd

I sleep talk too. Beware questions... I've given some really obscure answers as well. I think I may start recording myself just to hear the weird shit I say.

truck-a-sauras

1ddqd wrote: »

I sleep talk too. Beware questions... I've given some really obscure answers as well. I think I may start recording myself just to hear the weird shit I say.

BEWARE QUESTIONS!

It is like playing with fire. I've given some mega F'ed up responses that I then have to answer for in the morning when I do wake up. There ought to be a law that if you ask a sleep talker a question that they can not be held accountable for what they say. Without giving details I'll just say that if the sleeper is having a nightmare, then a nightmare might be what gets vocalized.D:

luckily like 90% of the time I speak in a gibberish alien moon language. The wife always finds that funny as the moon language still contains regular sentence structures and voice intonation.

John Matrix

Thylacine wrote: »

Iceman.USAF wrote: »

Thylacine wrote: »

On the other hand...if I start talking in my sleep and people ask me questions they get really weird answers.

You're lucky your roommate was nice. I would have recorded that shit.

Well, my "roommates" have consisted of my mom when I was a little kid, and my boyfriend(now husband) so I've been fortunate. ;-)

One of the funniest was when I kept asking my husband why he was dressed like a pretty pretty princess....

My husband talks in his sleep occasionally too. He says funny gaming stuff such as "Why do we have to spend skill points on sleep? Why do we have to roll for it, it seems so natural."

By far the funniest though was once I was trying to wake him up for sex and he starts making whiny noises. I ask him what's wrong and he says he's upset, I ask why and he says "Because we're out of condoms and the dinosaurs ran away."

We were out of condoms...but he was also dreaming about the D&D game we'd played that afternoon where our dinosaur mounts had run away. I don't think I'll ever let him live that one down.

I have the same problem, I talk in my sleep a lot and sometimes my wife sometimes catches me looking under the bed. When questioned I've given answers like "I'm looking for the assault rifle" or (the most recent) "I'm trying to find the collection plate."

Her favorite story to tell is from back in college, when I woke her up with the following;

Me: "You're making a big deal."
Her: "About what?"
Me: "I'm not an Ewok, I'm a Wookie."
Her: "You're a Wookie?"
Me: "Mm-hmm. Kiss the Wookie."

At which point she kissed me and I went quiet.

Kyanilis

Another sleep talker here. I've apparently said the craziest stuff while sleeping, so I just ask people not to ask/talk to me about anything unless I'm actually awake. Of course sometimes I just sit up and start talking about stuff on my own, apparently the last time (a couple nights ago) I sat up yelling that I was on fire or something.

Here's a hint: I don't remember dreams. I always fall asleep and wake up, so it's incredibly weird hearing about the things I've said, particularly when I know of no reason why I might of said those things.

Typically a "Go back to sleep" helps me, I guess. I never have any recollection but that seems to be what works. Maybe that's the best thing that can be done, I haven't heard of any other things.

Hypatia

You could try going half and half and investing in a white noise machine maybe?