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Daily stress is leading to a rise in the potential nightmare of 'sleep texting', expert claims
MailOnline ^ | 11/23/11 | Frank Thorne

Posted on 11/23/2011 6:06:17 AM PST by DeFault User

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I suppose that some folks text so much that they can go on "auto-pilot" at night. Having had the experience of driving in my sleep (no recollection of driving for many miles), I can believe this texting phenomenon. What I find a bit harder to believe is that someone authorized good money to be spent studying it.
1 posted on 11/23/2011 6:06:21 AM PST by DeFault User
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“...’sleep texting’ sufferers send incoherent messages...”

I don’t believe you have to be asleep to send incoherent text messages.


2 posted on 11/23/2011 6:13:28 AM PST by KrisKrinkle (Blessed be those who know the depth and breadth of their ignorance. Cursed be those who don't.)
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Looks like “sleep posting” is a similar phenomenon?


3 posted on 11/23/2011 6:18:18 AM PST by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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Its got to be better than “sleep sexting”. That could turn into a liability issue.


4 posted on 11/23/2011 6:29:22 AM PST by Nonstatist
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Yep, I see some that are so incoherent that “sleep posting” or total mental breakdown are the only possibilities.


5 posted on 11/23/2011 6:29:58 AM PST by DeFault User
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This doesn't surprise me at all. When my daughter had a sleepover last year all the girls were sleeping with their phones right next to their heads. All through the night you could hear the buzz of incoming text. Before the “You should have demanded they turn them off” crowd comes on board, they we're all seniors together for their last overnighter.:)
6 posted on 11/23/2011 6:32:25 AM PST by ladyvet ( I would rather have Incitatus then the asses that are in congress today.)
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I have actually experienced this. A few years back, a lot of my work involved texting to coordinate workers. I didn’t get to sleep a lot, and I sometimes would work 14 hours days (though 60 hours a week was the norm, sometimes it would exceed 70-80).

Anyway, one day one of my subordinates (who I happened to be friends with also) said that I texted “I love you” to him at 3 am. At the time my wife was away, staying with family, and we would often send messages to each other since I couldn’t pick up and call do to work requirements. I was pretty upset that I had done it, though, but my luckily it didn’t cause any real problems. But, it happened again, with another co-worker/subordinate, too, but this time It was a random message and not “I love you” (I can’t recall what it was). Thankfully he too was a personal friend (which I had gotten to know outside of work), and was not upset by the early morning message. I realized that my phone would auto send to the last person I sent a message to, which was eventually not going to be a problem with my new phone (that operated differently).

After the second time, I started to put my phone far away from me when I went to sleep, and have never had the problem again, after getting a new phone (I also make sure that the auto-text gets sent to myself rather than to anyone else by default, instead of the last person I texted). The only time that it happened was that time period, when my wife was away, but still, I always worry, which is why I always advocate clearing one’s phone so as to not accidently call or text in the middle of the night!


7 posted on 11/23/2011 6:34:01 AM PST by JDW11235 (I think I got it now!)
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I have to leave my phone far from me when I am not working. Otherwise, there is never a mental break. Some use it as their alarm, but that just means email and texts are always just an arm’s length away.


8 posted on 11/23/2011 6:34:24 AM PST by ilgipper (Everything you get from the government was taken from someone else)
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No sexting, but I did send “I love you” once! I took care of that problem fast.

I note that My parents used to also question me in my sleep as a kid, when they wanted to be sure I’d tell the truth about anything, as I was semi sleep talking (not consciously aware of the conversation) and would not remember it in the morning, either.


9 posted on 11/23/2011 6:37:08 AM PST by JDW11235 (I think I got it now!)
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Yep, I see some that are so incoherent that “sleep posting” or total mental breakdown are the only possibilities.

Happens here on FR frequently :)

10 posted on 11/23/2011 6:43:00 AM PST by upchuck (Rerun: Think you know hardship? Wait till the dollar is no longer the world's reserve currency.)
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Golly, I never bring the cellphone to bed, not even on the vibrate setting! ;oD
11 posted on 11/23/2011 6:47:43 AM PST by Titan Magroyne (What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.)
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This sounds like the story a few years ago about teenage boys in Japan's cities turning into hermits and never leaving their rooms.

Japan: The Missing Million

Turns out it was total BS, started by a single physician who made up a number.

12 posted on 11/23/2011 6:55:59 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum ("The very idea of a community organizer is to stir up a mob for some political purpose." Ann Coulter)
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Are we so devoid of real problems that we have to make them up? It sure is looking like it these days.


13 posted on 11/23/2011 7:24:52 AM PST by Dutch Boy
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I think its a called drunk texting.


14 posted on 11/23/2011 7:32:36 AM PST by goseminoles
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Golly, I never bring the cellphone to bed, not even on the vibrate setting! ;oD

I do - I use the web browser to read FR.


15 posted on 11/23/2011 9:02:03 AM PST by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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Guilty. I read books on my Kindle app on my Android.

I know.... but hey, since I downloaded it Sunday I have read 3 books. Ok, so it was the “Twilight Saga” but it still counts.


16 posted on 11/23/2011 10:01:52 AM PST by Danae (Anailnathrach ortha bhais beatha do cheal deanaimha)
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17 posted on 11/23/2011 11:01:24 AM PST by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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A book yes, a phone? Good grief no!

Electronic leashes are not my thing.

18 posted on 11/23/2011 12:42:42 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (*Philosophy lesson 117-22b: Anyone who demands to be respected is undeserving of it.*)
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I agree. Is no moment sacred? There are times when a person *should* be unreachable.

The ones that really get me are ppl using the phone in a public or workplace restroom. Good gravy! They make me want to conjure up a window-rattling bodily function for their listener to hear - and I’m a female.


19 posted on 11/23/2011 2:55:30 PM PST by Titan Magroyne (What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.)
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My new Bionic phone has both a silent feature and an off button.


20 posted on 11/23/2011 3:29:57 PM PST by Eaker (Nothing even remotely praising Romney should be posted because one should stick to the truth.)
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