Posted on 09/03/2011 2:12:44 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Sep 2, 2011 1:57pm
R U Asleep? Sleep Texting May Be 4 Real
You’ve heard of sleepwalking. Maybe even sleep talking and sleep eating.
But sleep texting?
Some sleep specialists say the occurrence of this high-tech parasomnia may represent a new phenomenon — and it’s really not as hard as you might think.
“It doesn’t take a lot of motor skill or brain function to do certain things. You can literally do them in your sleep,” Dr. Adam Fisch, a sleep specialist at St. Vincent Hospital in Indianapolis, told ABC affiliate WRTV.
Evidence of this bizarre activity remain largely anecdotal so far; still, past research indicates that texting would not be the strangest thing for one to do while fast asleep. In 2008, Seton Hall University researchers published a case report of sleep e-mailing. Cases of domestic violence and even homicide committed by a sleeping perpetrator have also surfaced in media reports in recent years. So perhaps you should consider yourself lucky if the most unpleasant thing your dozing buddy visits upon you is a text message.
(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...
Based on some of the posts I see, I would bet that Sleep-FReeping is a documentable diagnosis...
Me too. My laptop is just about always on, sitting on my coffee table.
Heck, I’ve been sound asleep a few times and heard the sound of incoming email and woke up and got up just to see...
My life is nowheres near anything anyone would call normal, being on call 7X24, but because of that I can work any time of the day or night I want to.
By the time I read them, it was the next morning and I was a little worried about her. She's in HS, was at home so I was pretty sure she hadn't been drinking or anything because her patents were home, etc
I called her after the tests were over and she thought I was crazy! Said she never texted me and was asleep by 10:00. I said check your phone and she called me back laughing— had no memory of it and I told her maybe she had some test anxiety and restless sleep! She has since plugged in her phone across the room so she doesn't text someone inappropriately at night! I swear she has her whole school as contacts, anything could happen!!!
Could abc try just a bit of journalism and report on one of the millions of things that threaten our daily lives... I guess since all evil is tied to their false gods the dims... they can’t... so we get stuff like this instead.
LLS
That would explain the texts I receive at 3 AM.
I recently discovered there is new phenomenon among certain charismatics: “texting in tongues.”
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.