Sleep Talking Boyfriend

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It was amusing at first. I'd wake up in the middle of the night to realize that something had just been said to me. Maybe I was half-asleep and hadn't heard correctly, but it sounded like my boyfriend had just said, "It's not out yet!" with the air of one just reaching a "Eureka!" moment. "What's not out yet?" I inquire sleepily. "That movie! The one I've been wanting to see. I keep thinking it's out, but it hasn't come out yet!" To which I can only mumble a soothing and vague, "Ah. That's nice," before realizing that a) he won't remember any of this in the morning and b) he's already fallen deeply asleep and is snoring in blissful oblivion of the discussion he's just instigated. It was amusing at first. Waking up to hear someone explaining to me, slowly and carefully as if I'd just asked to be told, that "The people are there. The people with the things. They're there to take care of the stuff, and sometimes--the stuff." It was amusing to watch him wake up one morning saying, "Of course! It must have been the razor," and then watch his subsequent confusion as I tried to instill some sense into the moment ("Well, I was thinking about my haircut." "You see, honey, I wasn't privileged to have access to that inner monologue.") and he slowly realized that he'd actually been delivering nonsense. It was amusing until about 2:00 this morning, when I was forced to remove myself to the living room and sleep scrunched up on the little loveseat because Mr. Nighttime Chatterbox had been delivering lines, every minute on the minute, for the past half-hour in a garbled nonsense tongue completely unbeknownst to me. He's seeing a sleep specialist tomorrow, but I don't know what can really be done for a problem like this, beyond my getting earplugs, getting increasingly frustrated, or getting to sleep on the couch a few times every month. I love this boy dearly, but I find myself resenting him for the way he's ruining my sleep with things he doesn't even know he's doing, and couldn't control even if he did.