Other differences might be due to the unique physiological circumstances involved in sleep talking. The study notes that he was well known to be obsessed with actresses, perhaps accounting for how many women he talked about in his sleep. Some of the differences in McGregor’s imaginings might be due to his particular personality.
They were less bizarre than the typical dream, and in them he seemed less passive than other dreamers report being. The sleep talking seemed to arise from a state halfway between sleeping and waking, as the researchers note, which might explain why they’re a little different than people’s dreams.Ĭompared to the typical dream on the Hall and van de Castle Scales, McGregor’s sleeping speeches were more likely to feature female characters than male, and more likely to feature friends and acquaintances rather than family members, the study found. But the ramblings do contain enough dream-like imagery that researchers can compare them to what we know many people dream about, giving us insight into what was going on in McGregor’s mind. They caution that “given what is known about the physiological state involved in sleep talking, is not entirely accurate” to call these “dream” recordings. While many people’s sleep mumbles are just a few incoherent words, many of McGregor’s clocked in at more than 100 words, and they tended to have a narrative to them, with “basic elements such as characters and social interactions,” as the researchers write. Their study published in Imagination Cognition and Personality also analyzed McGregor’s recordings with the Hobson Bizarreness Scales, a framework developed in the ‘80s to quantify exactly how bonkers your dreams get. The scale tallies how often different types of people pop up in dreams (family, strangers, children, adults, etc.) and the kind of emotions and actions involved in the narrative (aggression, friendliness, misfortune, success, sexuality).
In 2015, a set of Harvard researchers coded almost 300 of these “somniloquies” using the Hall and van de Castle Content Scales, a system scientists use to analyze dreams, to see how McGregor’s sleeping narratives stacked up to traditional dreams.
In the ‘60s, his New York City roommate began recording his nighttime speeches-bizarre narratives where he used different voices and described things like playing roulette with poisoned eclairs and taking a hot air balloon to the Moon-resulting in a total of 500 sleep-talk recordings that were published as albums.
McGregor, who died in 1994, is known as the world’s most talkative sleeper. Dion McGregor was a songwriter who wrote for stars like Barbra Streisand, but he ended up being much more famous for recordings he made in his sleep.
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