I was awakened at 1:45 this morning by my husband talking to me… loudly. I sat straight up in bed and said, “What did you say?”
The rest of the conversation went like this:
Todd: “I saaaiiid, ‘Know what I mean, Vern?’ “
Erin: “What?!”
Todd: “KNOW. WHAT. I. MEAN. VERN?”
Erin: “I heard you. I just don’t know what that means.”
Todd: “Never mind. Just forget it.”
Erin: “No. Not ‘never mind.’ It’s the middle of the night and you woke me up to tell me something and I want to know what it means.”
Todd: “It’s from Ernest!”
Erin: “Yes, sweetheart. I know that the quote, ‘Know what I mean, Vern?’ is from Ernest. Why did you say it to me right now?”
Todd: “Because of the conversation we were having about writing journals and the big discussion we just had about research.”
Erin: “Todd? Are you asleep?”
Todd: “I don’t know, maybe.”
Erin: “We didn’t have a conversation about journals or research.”
Todd: “Just forget it.”
I don’t have much experience with people talking in their sleep. One of my best friends does some sleep walking and talking and I was always able to talk her back into bed, but it’s a little different when your lifetime bed partner is quoting Ernest P. Worrell in the middle of the night.
p.s. We had a 4D ultrasound of our precious baby boy today, but the “Ernest talking in your sleep” story trumped the 4D ultrasound story for blog material. More on the ultrasound coming tomorrow.
I am dying laughing literally outloud about this story – SO FUNNY!!!
I can’t wait to hear all about the 4D ultrasound!!!! 🙂
OMG I just read this blog post aloud to my husband because he wanted to know what I was laughing so hard about!
My hubs has a bit of a sleep disorder where he talks in his sleep EVERY NIGHT. It used to bug me, but now I just find most of his chatter amusing. Personal favorite? The night he sat straight up in bed and said:
“The anecdote to the *mumbling* sickness is in the *mumbling* room!”
And promptly fell back to sleep.
And oh! I want details on the ultrasound 🙂 We’re thinking of having one of those done.
Mu husband talks in his sleep too. So funny! 🙂
Seriously, I just busted out laughing! That was so funny!
My hubby will do the same thing sometimes and I think it’s funny how they say “nevermind”…as if they know they are talking nonsense, but can’t control it.
Can’t wait to hear about your 4D! That was one of my favorite parts of pregnancy!
Hahah! This was hillarious! I just wrote a post about my hubby talking in his sleep this week. It must be a weird week?!?! He has never talked in his sleep before!
Your story is too funny though! Did he remember it the next morning?
I just read Megan’s post before reading yours and it’s about the same thing. =) Hubby has never talked in his sleep…i’d be freaked out. But that conversation is hilarous!!
Hilarious!! I have to say in our house I do the talking. Usually I’m yelling at a dog in my sleep.. My hubs thinks I may need to change my profession!!
I just laughed so hard I cried. And then my friend made me send it to her so she could know what I was laughing at.
I wish there was a blog entirely devoted to peoples sleep talking conversations. That would be a good read.
That’s a pretty random dream. 🙂
I’m guilty of sleep talking and sleep walking all the time.
OK, I don’t know if I have commented before, but I have been a lurker at your blog for a while now and I just have to comment! That was the funniest thing ever! My husband is a sleep talker sometimes too, and honestly, I have been there, but that is just too funny!!! Thanks for sharing… can’t wait to hear about your ultrasound. 🙂
LOL!!! That’s great!!!
That is too funny, I have woken up to Terence yelling in his sleep before..but he has never held a conversation! Ha!
That is hilarious! My old college roommate used to talk/mumble in her sleep. It scared the crap out of me and I would hide under my sheets. For some reason, sleep talking freaks me out. I think the person is going to wake up and start talking to me which is very scary in my mind. I’m glad you blogged about it so you can relive this story Forever!!
My husband walks and talks in his sleep. You get use to it after awhile.
Ha ha – that is hilarious! Most of the time when my hubs talks in his sleep I can’t understand a thing – it’s like he’s speaking in tongue!
LOL!!!!!!! I LOVE it! Especially since me, Evs, and my dad all say “Know what I mean, Vern?” all the time!
I always talk about the random-ist (most random?) stuff when I’m at the cusp of sleep (and usually after a couple glasses of vino)… it totally wigs Evs out!
That’s pretty funny! Chris had actually never heard that quote till we were married 🙂
Oh that is so funny!! My husband does some random talking in his sleep, but this convo takes the cake!!
That is absolutely hilarious! Can’t wait to hear more about Baby Boy!!
Oh my goodness….hilarious 🙂
~Elyse~
How funny! My husband is a sleep talker too. I posted about this a few weeks ago 🙂
That is classic!
OMG I just about died reading this!
Mr. Newlywed is a sleep talker, and it is hilarious. I usually don’t mind being woken up in the wee hours to hear the funny things.
Then I like to remind him about them for at least the next 24 hours 🙂
hahaha…..My hubby has conversations with me when I talk in my sleep….he says it cracks him up on some of the things I say!
BEST WAY TO WAKE UP. EVER. Hilarious.
Sometimes Mr. Mojito will say, “What you talking about Willis”
My hubby talks in his sleep all the time. He also has night terrors. One time he got up and thought there was a fire behind our bed. Craziness.
Ha ha ha! That is hilarious! I haven’t thought about Ernest T in a long time. Good stuff!
Oh! I totally talk in my sleep – it usually happens when I’m really stressed about something (usually work). I’ve carried on complete conversations with my mom when I was little.
Awesome. These are the sorts of little surprises that make marriage such a blast, yes? When they don’t otherwise make us want to maim our spouse, that is. 😉
haha!! Too funny. I love stories like this!!
I’m feeling your pain. My hubby talks, walks and sees spiders and snakes in his sleep. He has mistaken the closet for the bathroom, and sadly, a purse was not saved. He has jumped out of bed ducking and weaving from the flying spiders. I’ve noticed it happens more when he is stressed out.
Can’t wait to see the 4D pix.
Ha! My husband has never done anything quite like that, although he has ahem, lovingly told me to “just hush!” when I’ve been up sick with a cough or something…and, he has been known to eat cookies in his sleep. Now, trying to convince a grown man that he is asleep and needs to put the cookies down and go back to bed is a rather interesting experience all in itself.
Can’t wait to hear about the 4D ultrasound! How exciting!
i just laughed out loud. i say that phrase all the time … subconsciously…sounds like the hubby does too!
Hehe that is so funny! My husband talks in his sleep too. Once he yelled “FIRE!”
Oh my goodness…that is just hilarious!!!!!!!!!!!
haha. my bro (who i always end up sharing a room with when visiting relatives) talks in his sleep all the time. he also tries to play catch with me while he is sitting up in bed still asleep. 🙂
Oh my gosh, this is so funny!! Ed talks in his sleep sometimes, but it usually just mumbling…not really a conversation. Is this the first time Todd has done this?
OMG so funny!!! when i was in high school my best friend slept over and when i was passed out sleeping i said
“can i kiss your bubble butt?… (then a pause)… and the other one too?”
she still tells that story all the time! haha
lol that is the funniest thing ever.
My old best friend stayed the night one night, and we randomly woke up in the middle of the night and had a 2-hour long conversation. The next morning I mentioned it to her, and she had no idea what I was talking about. She’d been sleep-talking the whole time!!
Too funny 🙂
that’s hilarious 🙂 i am sure he was asleep 🙂 haha!! too funny! can’t wait to hear about the 4-D!
ahhh, my hubby has talked like that several times in his sleep. it startles me and wakes me up, and i try SOOO hard to remember what he said so I can tell him in themorning, but i always end up forgetting 🙂
Hilarious!!
Okay this is crazy for 2 reasons:
1. Husby just told me I was takling to him in my sleep last night.
2. I am going for a 4D ultrasound today!
I can’t wait to see/hear about how yours went!!!! Did you get a video?!
I’m glad I’m not the only one with a crazy husband! My husband has woken me up to tell me there was someone our room. He was dead asleep!!
Hahaha tooo funny! Can’t wait to hear about the ultrasound!
hahha.. thats too funny! My husband has done that before and I just sat there laughing : ) Cant wait to hear about the ultrasound!
I have to admit, I laughed out loud a little bit! Too funny 🙂 My hubby talked in his sleep once and it made absolutely no sense. Can’t wait to hear about the ultrasound!
hilarious! my hubs does it every now and then – hopefully it won’t become an everyday event!
I’ve had a similar experience with Lee (although it wasn’t about Vern) and I’m happy to report it’s only happened once!
Did he remember the conversation this morning?
Too funny! My husband talks in his sleep but it’s mostly an incoherent jumble of spanish and english.
Did he remember talking the next morning?
Hahahahahahhahahha…John does this too. Drives me CRAZY. And then he acts like I’m crazy when I confront him about it the next day because he doesn’t remember it!!
hahahaha! Hysterical! I love that he was quoting Ernest. Sounds like you had a night like Husby…at least he didn’t kick you out 🙂
That is so funny! 🙂
This is hilarious! I didn’t know anyone outside of my family actually used that line anymore…especially in their sleep!! My dad says it all the time and it still cracks me up to this day!
This is too hilarious! I talk in my sleep a lot and my FH once wrote down everything I said. I was telling him about my company handing out pieces of management in the form of fish and I was getting mad when he laughed. Haha this is the best blog today!
Haha! I love laughing out loud! Thanks …
I was reading this in a coffee shop today while waiting for my annual exam appointment…and I literally laughed out loud. Other patrons of Caribou Coffee were staring at me. But it took my mind off of the pending exam! That’s all that matters 🙂
my husband will talk in his sleep from time to time, but i always have a difficult time remembering what he said the next day!
but he will also say “nevermind” which is too funny!! 🙂
That is so me! I talk in my sleep, but no one can figure out what I am saying. I don’t do it all the time, but I can be chatty cathy for sure! Cute story!
I am laughing so hard at my desk right now, I can hardly type!! I have TEARS! CLASSIC!!!!!!
Am I the “friend” that sleep walks? I’m guessing you’re referring to the AXO bonding weekend where I semi-frightened you with my walking and talking. Miss you!
I have to admit- your story had me giggling out loud. It has happened a couple of times to my husband- but it is funny because he mostly will just giggle and laugh in his sleep!
hahah thats too funny! I’m stil giggling!