Somniloquy

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They consist in verbalization during sleep, in which the subject can talk form isolated words to whole speeches, in a more or less comprensive way, including ununderstandables words or elaborated conversations. It is a inocous phenomenon, common in the childhood and asociated with REM sleep, in wich the subject suffers episodial amnesy and he does not remeber anything after awakeness. Emotional Stress can provoque somniloquy. Apart from annoying our partner during the night, it does not require clinical treatment.