Sleep-text, texter

[Benjamin Barrett]

Wahaha. I've seen "ass call" and "butt call" but never the verb phone. But, like everything else in the universe, it's on Google. BB

On Jan 6, 2012, at 8:16 AM, Joel S. Berson wrote:

> 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)
>>
>> -----
>> It was the fact I was „sleep-texting‰ that freaked me out.
>> -----
>>
>> Comment on that page:
>>
>> March 17, 2006 by Stuart
>> -----
>> 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.
>> -----
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> -----
>> 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.
>> -----
>>
>> Benjamin Barrett
>> Seattle, WA

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