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COSTA RICA: Recently, a number of French savants successfully endeavored to decipher somniloquy (or talking aloud while asleep) by means of a comprehensive and first of its sort study.

After delving profoundly into this matter they found out that most of the sleep-talkers were men.

Their ramifications revealed that, during sleep, individuals are more likely to say the word NO.

As a matter of fact, people with this condition tend to repeat this particular word for around 800 times more in siesta than when awake. In addition, some people tend to articulate abusive words too.

Harboring on the subject, the study author Dr Nerina Ramlakhan elaborated saying that it can be associated to the nervous system being over charged due to extreme consumption of technology or caffeine before heading to the bed.

Perfectionists, who are pretty hard on themselves, often hesitate on saying what they really want to say. Therefore, while sleeping, such things creep into their mind, resulting into sleep-talking.

Considering this, another investigator from the Loughborough University, Prof Jim Horne maintained that sleep-talking generally tends to arise in shallow sleep and thus, it is not linked to dreaming at all.

In light sleep, the mind tends to wander and ponder. As a result, people end-up speaking unconsciously*.

This is more widespread among kids and most of the people grow out of it. In most of the cases, it is the outcome of hereditary aspects as well.

Academics delineated that people, who go through anxiety and stress, are more prone to come out with this condition. Hence, sleep-talkers are generally outpouring some sort of concern.

*It is generally believed that sleep talking can also occur in deeper sleep stage when words spoken in a dream are spoken out loud.