Posted on 12/14/2008 8:02:37 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
Zzz-mail: What happens when sleepwalkers go online
Doctors have reported the first ever case of someone using the internet while asleep, after a sleeping woman sent emails to people asking them over for drinks and caviar.
By Roger Dobson
Last Updated: 10:43PM GMT 13 Dec 2008
It was only when a would-be guest phoned the next day to accept, that she found out what she had done.
The 44-year-old woman, whose case is reported by researchers from the University of Toledo in the latest edition of medical journal Sleep Medicine, had gone to bed at around 10pm, but got up two hours later and walked to the next room.
She then turned on the computer, connected to the internet, and logged on by typing her username and password to her email account. She then composed and sent three emails.
Each was in a random mix of upper and lower cases, not well formatted and written in strange language.
One read: "Come tomorrow and sort this hell hole out. Dinner and drinks, 4.pm,. Bring wine and caviar only."
Another said simply, "What the……."
The new variation of sleepwalking has been described as "zzz-mailing".
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Ping!
Sleeping?????
Nah. Drunk as a skunk is more likely.
Sounds like certain Freepers I know...
The first case EVER? Not! I took an Ambien about 5 years ago and found that I had signed up for Yahoo Answers and also emailed a friend while I was supposed to be asleep. I didn’t know I had done these things until much later, when I discovered the evidence. Ambien is notorious for this.
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Be sure to check your “sent” box when you get up... LOL...
Uh oh.....
I have done this! Once in a while I would take a half Ambien to sleep. A friend of mine emailed me and asked if a given email had come from me. I had no recollection of it, the typing was atrocious, the content was not like me at all, but I looked at my sent emails and it was from me! I was mortified, but glad it was them. lol
You might think so in most cases. But, I found out, one time, that I had talked to someone in my sleep for about an hour (about 2 AM or so, when a girl I knew called).
When I talked to her next time, I hadn’t known that I had talked to her that time in the middle of the night. After she told me that I did and told me several things that I said and that I sounded like normal and went on with her for about an hour, I was flabbergasted.
There was no drinking on my part (as I’m not a drinker) and I don’t take prescription drugs, and neither other kinds.
So, there was no other explanation other than “sleep-talking”... I guess. I must have been really tired. I suppose that could be one possibility.
There was another time when I was talking to a “landlord” (two older spinster sisters owned a property that I rented and I was talking to one of them). I was working a lot in those days and was tired a lot. She said that she was talking to me and I just wasn’t there anymore, but barely heard my breathing, as though I was asleep. I fell asleep on the phone with her... LOL...
Thats not as bad as driving while sleeping. There was a time when I used to drive a truck and found myself over 100 miles past my exit and had no recolection of driving it. I came to find out that it is not at all unusual when you are deprived of sleep. Motor and cognizant functions work just fine but in actuality you are asleep.
>>>activate Goggles to prevent anomalous emailing. <<<
That looks to be an entire blog devoted to drunk emailing.
Ambien is notorious for this type of side effect.
I once had a 90 yr. old patient who took it every night for 3 months. This lady couldn't walk without her walker...but she would get up in the middle of the night... raid the refrigerator, turn on all the lights and scatter stuff all over the house. She was convinced someone was breaking in until the daughter caught her in the act. Needless to say.... we switched her meds and she was fine after that. :)
I met Rush Limbaugh at a social function in DC and he invited me to fly home with him in his private jet, which I did. I didn't get to talk with him much as everyone else was crowded around him.
Very much like my late 94 year old Dad....he had dementia and would forget his walker (extreme fall hazard). He had a thing in his head that he CONSTANTLY had to pee, so we tried Ambien and a few others; ended up having to retreat and hire an all night caregiver.
What the ... ??
Exactly!! I couldn’t have said it better myself, thanks for posting! lol
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