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Sleep messaging (or sleep emailing or sleep texting) is a phenomenon related to sleepwalking where people send emails or other textual communications in a combined state of sleep and wakefulness.[1][secondary medical source needed][2]
Jim Fulop of OhioHealth Sleep Services attributed sleep texting to situations where a person might "wake up confused, they grab (their phone) and they’re off mumbling in the text message".[3] Elizabeth Dowdell of Villanova University noted that the idea of people answering the phone in their sleep was "not particularly new", and the new technology gave another route for this type of behaviour.[3]
References
[edit]- ↑ Siddiqui, Fouzia; Osuna, Edgar; Chokroverty, Sudhansu (2009). "Writing emails as part of sleepwalking after increase in Zolpidem". Sleep Medicine. 10 (2): 262–264. doi:10.1016/j.sleep.2008.09.008. PMID 19059805.
- ↑ Stross, Randall (2009-01-10). "You've Been Talking (or Pressing 'Send') in Your Sleep". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-01-29.
- 1 2 Hare, Breeanna (22 February 2013). "Don't recall sending that message? Maybe you're 'sleep texting'". CNN. Retrieved 2020-01-29.