A while ago I came into our room and started talking with Sam, only to find that he wasn't really awake. But he'd been talking back. I didn't know if he was sleep talking or what, so I decided to test him.
Me: Are you awake?
Sam: Yes.
Me: No you're not, you're asleep.
Sam: I am not asleep.
Me: You are too.
Sam (defensively): I am not!
Me: Okay then...what's your middle name?
Sam (a little too quickly): Sam!
Me (laughing): Your name is Sam Sam?
Sam: Wait, no. I meant...
Me: Ha! You are asleep. I knew it!
At this point all the talking made him wake up and he was sulky all over again (this time legitimately so) for being accused of being asleep when he wasn't. One of my sisters talked in her sleep growing up, which was maddening because as I was getting ready for bed I'd ask her something like "did you set the alarm?" and she'd assure me that she had when she actually hadn't. I used to grill her too, asking her if she was actually awake of not, but she was quite convincing and could carry on whole conversations, so I was often taken in. Although, that's nothing compared to my other sister who somehow managed to answer her phone in her sleep and talk to her best friend for 15 minutes before she realized anything was amiss. It went something like this-
H: Hello?
A: Hey, were you asleep?
H: (groggily defensive, because she actually is asleep) No! I'm awake.
A: (confused) Oh. Okay. How was the beach trip?
H went on to tell her all about the ward beach trip before introducing the subject of tigers.
H: And then we were divided into groups and we were the tigers.
A: Wait, what? After you got back you were tigers?
H: What? No, the tigers turned into T-shirts.
A: The tigers were T-shirts?
H: The T-shirts were T-shirts!
A: What T-shirts?
It was at this point that my sister woke up to find herself in mid conversation with a phone in her hand, and she very legitimately asked "Wait, what T-shirts?"
