My boyfriend has been "sleep talking" the same woman's name for six months. Last night I finally recorded it and played it back to him wide awake.
It started as something I laughed off, half-asleep myself, barely registering it. "Mia" murmured into his pillow, soft, almost tender, the kind of tone you use with someone you actually miss, not the garbled mumbling people usually associate with talking in their sleep.
I asked him about it once, casually, over breakfast a few days later, trying to keep it light.....