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We briefly brought up sleep-walking at the end of class, but I was also wondering about sleep-talking.  I am a notorious sleep talker (or so I'm told, seeing as I remember nothing about the occurrence) and therefore wonder if there are parts of my "self" in the jumble of words that I mumble every night.  I know we said that sleep-walking does involve the I-function, but one usually has no memory of the occurrence--how does this happen that we remember dreams if woken up during the REM cycle (or Delta cycle?), but not sleep walking if done during the REM cycle?  I have the same question for sleep-talking.

I also got to thinking that, if one is lucidly dreaming, one has to have a balance between a sense of "reason" and a sense of "emotion."  The "reason" would be seeing delusions--which the brain probably wouldn't favor--but the emotions would be the desire to continue seeing those delusions.  It seems to be a push-pull sort of relationship occurring in the brain when this happens.