Sleep-text, texter

[Joel S. Berson]

Apparently sometimes more thoughtful than
butt-phoning, which (I assume) only dials random numbers.

Joel

At 1/5/2012 10:30 PM, Benjamin Barrett wrote:
>Sleep texting is in the news right now (see #2 below).
>
>I wonder if bookies are taking odds on how long
>it will be before a politician claims that their
>"sexting" was a case of "sleep-sexting."
>
>1. December 21, 2005 - This is the earliest I
>find on Google, searching back to 2000.
>
>"Sleep-texting" by Gail Dela Cruz (http://kutitots.com/?p=14)
>
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>It was the fact I was “sleep-texting” that freaked me out.
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>
>Comment on that page:
>
>March 17, 2006 by Stuart
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>its funny, my girlfriend just sleep-texted me
>right now actually ­ i found it hilarious, she
>woke up when i replied and had no idea what i was talking about heh.
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>
>2. December 27, 2011: "Hey u wassup?? Let's
>zzzzz ..." by Kristin Tillotson
>(http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/136212468.html)
>
>This article has a cornucopia of forms.
>
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>Alice Hall is such a skillful texter that she can do it in her sleep.
>
>"Sometimes the texts make sense, other times
>it's just random letters," said Hall, a senior
>at the Perpich Center Arts High School in Golden
>Valley and one of a small but growing number of
>cellphone users who say they sometimes
>sleep-text -- the latest twist on sleepwalking or talking in one's sleep.
>
>"You wouldn't want to sleep-text your boss," he said.
>
>But doctors are also starting to see sleep-texting concerns in adult patients.
>
>Sleep-texters can do themselves real social or
>professional damage, said Kramer, who has about
>a dozen patients who have become concerned about
>sleep-texting, most of them first mentioning it in the past year.
>
>Caitlin Connery, a junior at Perpich, said she
>hasn't sleep-texted anything mortifying yet, but "it's a fear I have."
>
>Most sleep-texts are probably sent when people
>are in a semi-alert but groggy state, both Iber and Kramer said.
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>
>Benjamin Barrett
>Seattle, WA
>
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