My boyfriend talks in his sleep a lot, and sleep-sang me a lullaby the other night.
I usually go to bed 1-3 hours after he goes to sleep, and he often reacts to me getting into bed with him either by grabbing onto me and snuggling, muttering some incoherent nonsensical sentence, or mumbling loving things. Then there’s the times where he would randomly sit straight up in bed, tear the blanket off of me, angrily flap it around in the air and then put it back on me saying “That one wasn’t real, this is the real blanket, you’re welcome” and doesn’t remember any of this the morning after. It’s honestly fecking hilarious when he does the weird sleep-talking, and I wish I wrote down more of the weird things he says and does.
The other night, I was really struggling with a lot of things. I more or less lost my entire family last year due to a falling out and it’s something I’ve been grieving a lot lately. Some days are just tougher to get through, you know? I went to bed pretty late that night, had some soft sniffles because of feeling sad, and he rolled over, scooped me up, and started singing me a lullaby – specifically, “You are my sunshine”. He sang the whole song, kissed my forehead, and flopped back into a regular sleeping pattern. He didn’t remember any of it the next morning, like most of these little incidents, but I did.
It honestly meant so much to me.