{"id":9189,"date":"2015-01-29T05:00:48","date_gmt":"2015-01-29T13:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michellejolin.com\/wordpress\/?p=9189"},"modified":"2015-05-03T17:43:05","modified_gmt":"2015-05-04T00:43:05","slug":"an-imaginary-conversation-about-talking-in-your-sleep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/?p=9189","title":{"rendered":"An imaginary conversation about talking in your sleep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You say the nicest things when you&#8217;re not even aware you&#8217;re talking..I wish you were that sweet when you&#8217;re fully conscious. <\/p>\n<p>What? <\/p>\n<p>Like when you&#8217;re just about asleep. Or just about passed out. <\/p>\n<p>Wouldn&#8217;t I remember?<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know.  I don&#8217;t think so. You&#8217;ve said you want to spend your whole life with me a few times. <\/p>\n<p>I have?<\/p>\n<p>Yep. <\/p>\n<p>When I asleep?<\/p>\n<p>Sort of. <\/p>\n<p>How do you know I was talking to you?<\/p>\n<p>You were talking <em>about<\/em> me, not <em>to<\/em> me. <\/p>\n<p>Who was I talking to?<\/p>\n<p>Your brother, I think, sometimes. Or people at work. <\/p>\n<p>What did I say?<\/p>\n<p>That you loved me, but you were afraid you&#8217;d fuck up. That you wanted to be with me, but didn&#8217;t want to lose me. <\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t remember. <\/p>\n<p>I know. Sometimes you talk about work, then you talk about me. Like you&#8217;re talking to someone on the phone. <\/p>\n<p>Why don&#8217;t you wake me up?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the only time you say such nice things about me. <\/p>\n<p>I say nice things to you sometimes!<\/p>\n<p>You do&#8230;but not as nice as the things you say when you&#8217;re out of it. <\/p>\n<p>Like what?<\/p>\n<p>Once you said &#8221; she doesn&#8217;t even know how I feel. I can&#8217;t tell her, she won&#8217;t believe me.&#8221; You were arguing with someone. I think that time it was your brother. Another time it seemed more like you were telling someone about me. <\/p>\n<p>Whole conversations?<\/p>\n<p>More or less. Mumbled a little, and interwoven with random stuff. I try not to read anything into it. I mean, if there was something you wanted me to know, wouldn&#8217;t you tell me?<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know. <\/p>\n<p>I do. You wouldn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>Eventually I probably would. <\/p>\n<p>Why eventually and not now? Or in a week?<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a good question. <\/p>\n<p>Bok. Bok. Bok. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not a chicken. I&#8217;m just not ready. <\/p>\n<p>You may never be. <\/p>\n<p>Maybe not. <\/p>\n<p>I wonder. <\/p>\n<p>Me too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You say the nicest things when you&#8217;re not even aware you&#8217;re talking..I wish you were that sweet when you&#8217;re fully conscious. What? Like when you&#8217;re just about asleep. Or just about passed out. Wouldn&#8217;t I remember? I don&#8217;t know. I don&#8217;t think so. You&#8217;ve said you want to spend your whole life with me a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/?p=9189\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">An imaginary conversation about talking in your sleep<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8959,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-imaginary-conversation","category-words"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/michellejolin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_2470-0.jpg?fit=341%2C391&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7lr3R-2od","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6880,"url":"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/?p=6880","url_meta":{"origin":9189,"position":0},"title":"An imaginary conversation about having a conversation","author":"Michelle","date":"August 3, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Hi there. 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