Does your parrot "talk" in its sleep?

[patdbunny]

Michael wrote:Never experienced that. How are you sure that the birds aren't awake or waking up while doing this?

I suppose you can't. I've apparently said things when I'm drifting in and out of sleep that I don't remember saying or I'm completely convinced I was dreaming.

[kaylayuh]

I've apparently said things when I'm drifting in and out of sleep that I don't remember saying or I'm completely convinced I was dreaming.

LOL. I actually have had full conversations with people in my sleep. I would fall asleep on the phone with my first boyfriend all the time and just keep talking. I'd wake up the following morning with a dead phone that was buzzing in my ear!

I figure, if we can do it, birds can too. I think it's kind of funny especially because No Name seems to get really into his dreams sometimes.

[bkeetie]

I have had two blue-fronted Amazons over the years. My first blue-front, Carla, would have her head behind her wing, and apparently be sound asleep, while softly rehearsing her entire "vocabulary" over and over to herself in an adorable little voice: "Hello! What are you doing? Bird-brain! Help, fire! I love you!" and so forth. It was the cutest thing I ever saw. She did it particularly often when she was young. Carla passed away in 2012, after being my companion for 25 years. The new blue-front I now have, Jelly Bean, sometimes mutters in her sleep, but I can't really understand the words.

I am new to Parrot Forum. Hello, fellow parrot lovers!

[Lizz]

Welcome Bkeetie.

I don't know if they are asleep when they talk because they get up and eat and drink in the middle of the night.

Myrtle some times mumbles while asleep on my shoulder.

If I fall asleep any where but bed I wake myself up talking. My daughter thinks that is funny.

My son talks in his sleep but I can rarely understand him.

My daughter is a lot different. At the age of 4 she started having nightmares. The beauty is that she spoke clearly. I was able to ask her what it was. She answered and I could go into her dream and take care of it while she was still sleeping. One night I had to slay a dragon. I thought she was okay. Halfway back to my room I found out there were 2 dragons so I had to run back to her.
She never woke up and did not remember it.

[Lizz]

I have had two blue-fronted Amazons over the years. My first blue-front, Carla, would have her head behind her wing, and apparently be sound asleep, while softly rehearsing her entire "vocabulary" over and over to herself in an adorable little voice: "Hello! What are you doing? Bird-brain! Help, fire! I love you!" and so forth. It was the cutest thing I ever saw. She did it particularly often when she was young. Carla passed away in 2012, after being my companion for 25 years. The new blue-front I now have, Jelly Bean, sometimes mutters in her sleep, but I can't really understand the words.

I am new to Parrot Forum. Hello, fellow parrot lovers!

looks like Rambo. is the closest thing I can find to Myrtle. Let you BF fly.

[Pajarita]

Liz, that's a quaker! There isn't one for a bluefronted, though...

Welcome to the forum, Bkeetie and JellyBean!

[Lizz]

I know. We need a BF in flight.

[bkeetie]

Thanks to those who welcomed me! I allowed Carla to fly for a while whenever her flight feathers grew out. She enjoyed flying around the house, but she would always fly to the top of a bookcase and refuse to come down. Also, I was afraid she would fly outside when I had the door open, and I would lose her. So, I always had her clipped again.

I have only had Bean long enough to experience one molting cycle. She started to fly when her feathers grew out after her molt last summer. Just like Carla, she clearly enjoyed it, but I was afraid of losing her, so I had her clipped again.

I loved Carla very much. I miss her. She was quiet, for a parrot --- rarely screeched. Bean, on the other hand, screeches obnoxiously when I am in another room, or when she is hungry. Any tips on teaching her to talk or whistle instead of screech?

[Wolf]

I addressed your screaming problem in your other post, but welcome to the forum.
Also since you mentioned it, you should be aware that clipping a bird does not make it safer for the bird and if you look you will find more lost birds that were clipped than of those that were not clipped, and the saddest part is fewer of these clipped birds survive long enough to be returned. Almost all of a birds systems are tied into their ability to fly this ranges from intelligence to hormones to behavior. It also removes their only means of escaping from danger, since clipping actually does nothing beneficial for the bird and actually does them harm, while only providing a false sense of security for the owner, I urge you to reconsider your choice of clipping JB.

[Pajarita]

And I wholeheartedly second his recommendation! Handicapping an animal and causing them physical and emotional harm in the process just because it's convenient to us is not what one would call showing our love for them... I know that a lot of parrot owners recommend it and say that their birds are healthy and happy clipped but all the scientific evidence we have points to exactly the opposite.