Sleep-reading

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Hi everyone!
I was just wondering if any of you has ever read in their sleep? Is it even possible?
What do you think?
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I think your eyes have to be open to read. Unless, of course, you're listening to a book on tape! But yeah. Otherwise, I would have learned a lot more about heat transfer than I did! :D

And I'm pretty sure I've read in my dreams, if that's the question!
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Well you can have your eyes open when sleeping. Because I either slept read or had a dream that i was reading. I was reading a Warrior book when it happened, the next morning When i was reading it kinda seemed like i read it before.
When you were dreaming that you were read did the words burn or like on fire?
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I can't say I've had this happen with a real book, but when a friend gave me an audio book it did.
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Perhaps the book was predictable? You may've read to a point, slept and dreamt about what could've happened next and then woke up the next morning and began reading something quite similar to where you had dreamt the plot would go.




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Maybe.... and maybe not.

What I want to know is 'Do you guys think it is possible to sleep-read?'

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well if you can sleep walk, talk, eat... However, I'm just guessing that the part of your brain that would understand/meaningfully hold onto what you had read wouldn't be functioning enough to really hold onto it. The cognitive process would be a bit iffy. Just a guess!
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That's never happened to me. But I have had dreams of reading a book (for example, Harry Potter), and then everything that happens is different and somehow I'm making it up as I read it, but at the same time it's still Harry Potter. o.0
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Well, I've written in my sleep. When I woke up, there was a lovely poem on my computer, saved at one in the morning. It was weird.
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