If something delicate is revealed, there's a good chance that the listener will misunderstand it and causes hilarity to ensue. Even if the sleeper knows all the secrets in the story, the one piece of information the listener needs will be what is murmured between nonsensical babbles. If it isn't one of the above, most likely there will be crucial information imparted. Your shy Shrinking Violet may call out the name of the one she loves in her sleep, though she never gives a hint while awake (bonus points if she does so rather. Your tough-as-nails Mama Bear may have nightmares about things from her past, which of course gives The Hero something to comfort her over. The Bully may reveal himself as a Bruiser with a Soft Center or a Jerk with a Heart of Gold though he's still obnoxious while awake. In fiction and media, anything spoken whilst dreaming is intelligible and (usually) deeply meaningful, offering up insights into the hidden life of our heroes. In Real Life, referred to by the term somniloquy, these verbal fragments are more likely to be random nonsense like in the page image than anything linear or relevant - let alone any kind of deep or embarrassing secrets - but this is fictionland. When a sleeper is dreaming, they sometimes also talk. Dreams, occurring in REM (no, not that R.E.M.) are the subconscious mind's way of rooting through thoughts and concepts the brain is trying to process while the owner of the brain is sleeping.
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