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spitting during sleep?

Over the past few years, I noticed I started to literally spit in my sleep. I usually always drool, but this is not drooling. I literally will hawk back and spit in my sleep, sometimes more than once, and it isn't until afterwards that I know I did but by then I am half asleep and don't think or do anything of it instead I roll back over and go to bed. I never thought about it too much but I decided to ask because I googled it and couldn't find anything on the matter, aside from infants and children spitting up.

Does anyone else do this? Is it something I should be worried about?
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I just had one last night. In my sleep i spit down then i opened my eyes and i was looking down my pillow and it was wet... Really weird.
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OMG NO WAY! I'm a sleep spitter as well! We should form a club, guys. Whataya say?! So I was sleeping one night. A nice steady sleep. And then WA BAM! I spit on myself for no reason. I always go back to sleep right after cause home girl needs her beauty rest. I don't remember anything that happened in my sleep before or after this traumatic event. I don't know the cure, I just wanted to share my story to help others like us open up about their stories. We too are humans. It's okay to be a sleep spitter!
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I have recently become a sleep spitter and your post just cracked me up!
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I have also been doing this for a couple of years now and when my wife wakes me up to tell me what im doing , I find that im very angry , I also believe it could be stress related
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I just now woke up from a dream in which I was vomiting and I guess my body told me to spit it out and well when i woke up right after I had just spit out the fake vomit in my dream. I am confused too because it has happend before... follow me on Instagram btw ;) @mnmelx
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Same thing is happening to me :( i was kinda angry that i spit so i started shouting "I need tissue!!!" And eventually my little brother brought a pack.. I cleaned it then i put my pillow on top of it and started sleeping again .... After sometime i woke up and asked my self "Did i just spit"
Its a relief to see many people to through this...
I unfortunately spit when I am hanging out the friends it's partly because they do it.. I think this thing is viral
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Ive been a habitual mj smoker from the age of 14 I'm 29 now. I recently quit for my new job for liability reasons and this week is the first time i have ever spit in my sleep and its happened twice this week, one where i didn't like the taste of something, another where i was brushing my teeth. On top of that, I'm having some pretty vivid dreams, some friendly but mostly gruesome. I've never had so much activity in my sleep.
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