Tony Crisp Interpretation:
A few people exhibit the unusual symptom of being incredibly difficult to wake when they are asleep. In the book Ramana Maharshi and the Path of Self Knowledge, Arthur Osborne reports that family and friends of Ramana often found it difficult to wake him. So much so that school friends would sometimes carry him out of the dormitory and pour water over him or take advantage of him in other ways, and he still did not wake. Many people report a lesser degree of such inability to be woken, in which speaking while asleep occurs. Partners or parents report that the person asleep will talk to them as if awake, answer questions earnestly, even hold a conversation, but do not wake. This may be akin to sleepwalking. See paralysis—while asleep or trying to wake.