English

Noun

sleeptalker ‎(plural sleeptalkers)

1. A person who talks unconsciously in their sleep.
   • 2008, Christian Jarrett & Joannah Ginsburg, This Book Has Issues: Adventures in Popular Psychology, Continuum (2008), ISBN 9780826479785, page 141:

     Often they will wake when their sleeptalking startles another person, who then makes a noise at being woken up, waking the sleeptalker to ask the other "What's wrong?"

   • For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:sleeptalker.

Synonyms

• somniloquist