[DeFault User]

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.

[KrisKrinkle]

“...’sleep texting’ sufferers send incoherent messages...”

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

[jiggyboy]

Looks like “sleep posting” is a similar phenomenon?

[Nonstatist]

Its got to be better than “sleep sexting”. That could turn into a liability issue.

[ladyvet]

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.:)

[JDW11235]

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!

[Titan Magroyne]

Golly, I never bring the cellphone to bed, not even on the vibrate setting! ;oD

[E. Pluribus Unum]

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.

[goseminoles]

I think its a called drunk texting.

[martin_fierro]