There is a rare condidtion known as Somniloquism where a person engages in dialog while asleep. I remember in my first year of college I roomed with a young man named Tad who would vocalize all sorts of odd adventures, but nothing like those of Dion McGregor, a past songwriter who wrote “Where is the Wonder” for Barbara Streisand.

Dion’s nocturnal adventures are sometimes macabre, like his dream about a variant of Russian Roulette with pastries instead of guns (one of them being poisoned), and are sometimes uproarliously absurd, like his narrative about having fun in a land of concentric circles.

Eventually someone got the fun idea of recording Dion in his sleep and to start putting out albums of the stuff. It’s defintely worth a listen, especially if you have a dark sense of humor. Many who have heard the albums have wondered if this is all a hoax, and some of the dialogs are so well done it does make one wonder; either way, even if it is a fake it still fascinates.

Here is a place where you can buy his albums and listen to two samples: link

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