Are you awake?

Joshy has talked in his sleep since he was a toddler.  Not babbling, but full conversations.  A moment ago, he asked for a drink of water.  Thinking he was awake, I took him a cup.  When I reached his bed, he sat up, eyes wide open and asked me if I could hold "this".  So, I mimed taking the imaginary object out of his cupped hand and replacing it with the water, which he gulped, handed back to me, and then laid back down, perfectly asleep.  Whatever was going on in his dream, he clearly was thirsty.  John is much like him in that.  I can have full conversations with him, thinking him awake.  The upside?  Sleep John generally agrees with me.  The downside?  Awake John rarely remembers.  Ben is more like me.  Asleep or awake.  And if awake unnaturally, usually grumpy.  Awake unnaturally and without a diet coke, flat out mean.