In the second post from her ‘Weird and Wonderful World’ column, Charley Allen warns us of the dangers of ‘sleep texting’.
It is a well-known fact that people are becoming more and more glued to their mobile phone, but replying to texts in your sleep is a bit too far-fetched surely?
Apparently not, experts are saying that it is becoming more and more common for people to respond to a message in a sleep-walk fashion, something we can refer to as “sleep-text”.
Dr. Elisabeth Dowdell, a nursing professor at Pennsylvania’s Villanova University, claims this manic night-time behaviour often happens between 90 minutes and 2 hours into your sleep cycle. She told CBS earlier this week, “The phone will beep, they’ll answer the text. They’ll either respond in words or gibberish.” There are still no scientific studies on sleep texting to tell us how often, or not, this is happening but more and more doctors are hearing about it and the trend seems to be on the rise. Well, this can be rather dangerous can’t it? You drop off peacefully to sleep and wake up in the morning to a text from your best friend you secretly fancy asking you why you texted him about beaches and skinny dipping. Oh dear.
But fret not; there is a simple solution so you can sleep in peace. Just take the plunge and do that almost unheard of act; turn your phone off! Besides, it will do you good to switch off for a while and will stop your parents from worrying about you being too wired and not sleeping enough. Unless you really are an extreme example of our tech-dependent society and you go searching for your phone to turn on in the middle of the night, this should do the trick.
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