You have heard about sleep walking, and talking in your sleep, but have you heard of writing in your sleep?

I googled it and was surprised to find that there were some results that came up. There was a definition and a few articles that had sleep writing in the title but really weren’t about writing when you are asleep. 

It’s a crazy notion that anyone could do such a thing … but I came close the other night. 

When I was young, my mother had told me that I talked in my sleep. Sometimes she had conversations with me. The words I said, however, didn’t make any sense, and often the sounds that I made were more like the teacher’s from the Charlie Brown cartoons.

Talking in your sleep is rather harmless … unless you have some really juice topics or secrets that you reveal to someone who may be awake and in ear shot of you.

It’s nothing like walking in your sleep. Now that could be potentially dangerous! … especially if you lived in an apartment with a balcony or a house with a long, steep set of stairs. 

You would want to make sure the door to the balcony was locked every night and, if there were stairs, you would need one of those baby gates, regardless if there were children in the home.

But sleep writing is a whole different matter. It takes much more coordination and even some planning to pull it off. Somehow you have to have your eyes open and be able to see what you are writing on. You need light. 

The other night I didn’t really sleep write but I was close to it. 

I had a very brief talk that I had to give (about 2-4 minutes) and I had some trouble coming up with what I should say.

I guess sometime in the middle of the night I was half asleep thinking about how to start the talk. As I tossed and turned, I managed to determine that it would be a good idea to write some things down. 

I got my phone out and opened up a notes app. I started with “Welcome” and then I just kept writing. In my 3 am dosing state it seemed to flow pretty well. In no time I had finished and written down what I wanted to communicate in the talk.

I turned off my phone and went back to sleep.  

The next morning, driving home from hockey, I remembered that I had written out my talk, but I couldn’t recall any of the actual words. 

As I pulled into our garage, I chuckled to myself and wondered if it made any sense at all.

I told my wife, Lily, and pulled out my phone to read what I had written. When I finished reading it, we both looked at each other with shock. 

It was perfect … exactly what I needed to say.

Here’s the thing: It’s neat that God gave me that message and in my tired, half awake state, I just wrote what He gave me. The Bible writers (40 of them) wrote within their own style, from their own backgrounds, what God gave them to communicate. And to think they did this over almost a 2000 year span, maintaining a perfectly consistency message that points to Christ. That’s not just neat, it’s miraculous!

That’s Life!

Paul

Question: Have you ever sensed that God gave you a message to give to someone? Leave your comments and questions below.