Occasionally throughout our marriage Tom has said funny things in his sleep, the most infamous being during our first months of marriage, when I came to bed to hear him say, "Stop holding that axe over my head!" It was at that point that I decided not to read too much into anything he said while sleeping.
Because he also has a habit of answering the phone while asleep, he has been known to make plans or agree to large purchases without remembering. Once when my friend called our apartment to ask if our power was back on, he said, "I don't know" and hung up on her.
He also teaches in his sleep. I have been shocked into wakefulness by the command, "Sit down and listen!"
Oh, the stories!
His most recent sleep-talk episode took place in the fall. It still makes us laugh, so I thought it worthy of recording. I was coming to bed after him, not unusual with my night-owl habits. Somehow that night I made more noise than normal, dropping and kicking things in the dark. He lifted his head and said to me, "Is Big Foot coming to the Promised Land?" At first I thought he was joking, because it almost fit the circumstances. I laughed and said, "What? You aren't making any sense!" He said, "Yes I am because Big Foot has Big Feet and the Promised Land is Israel." When I told him that he was going to laugh about this in the morning, he looked at me, incredulous at my lack of understanding, put his head down and was immediately deeply asleep.
If I had to guess, he meant to say something like, "Could you be any noisier coming to bed?" But what he actually said was much more entertaining.
If I had to guess, he meant to say something like, "Could you be any noisier coming to bed?" But what he actually said was much more entertaining.
