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#1 2009-02-18 7:04 pm
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Sleep emailing
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/02/18/em … aslee.html
According to a case described in the medical journal Sleep Medicine, a 44-year-old sleepwalker logged onto her computer and emailed out party invitations to friends. Fortean Times magazine looks at this case and several other bizarre episodes of somnambulism. From Fortean Times:
The mails themselves were perhaps not up to the woman’s waking standard; each was in a random mix of upper and lower case characters, badly formatted and containing odd expressions. 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…” http://www.forteantimes.com/strangedays … t-age.html
Read the whole article for other sleeping behaviors. 
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#2 2009-02-18 7:33 pm
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Re: Sleep emailing
Ambien is likely somewhere in these stories (and is a detail you probably won't find the Fortean Times).
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#3 2009-02-19 9:48 am
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Re: Sleep emailing
Who was it around here who sleep-crushed and snorted more Ambien after taking some in the normal, swallow-y way?
Grandfatherly advice: You can drink 'em pretty, but you can't drink 'em smart.
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#4 2009-02-19 10:14 am
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Re: Sleep emailing
Uma Therman?
Aw, he's no fun, he fell right over.
Unless you become as little children, there's no way you will believe this crap.
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#5 2009-02-19 12:11 pm
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Re: Sleep emailing
It would help account for some of her marriages, but she can still raise my thermals any day.
Oh wait, it's Thurman.
Rats.
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#6 2009-02-19 3:34 pm
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Re: Sleep emailing
Is she sure she didn't just get outrageously drunk and black out?
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#7 2009-02-19 4:23 pm
Re: Sleep emailing
We believe writing an email after turning the computer on, connecting to the Internet and remembering the password displayed by our patient is novel.
e-mail clients remember the password for you, broadband connects automatically, and many people leave their PC's on 24/7
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#8 2009-02-19 9:29 pm
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Re: Sleep emailing
I can turn on, log in, and do many things while hardly coherent, and have done so in the not too distant past. However, I've never simply rambled, at least that I can remember. I've certainly said things I've regretted, however.
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#9 2009-02-19 11:30 pm
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Re: Sleep emailing
jkahless wrote:
Is she sure she didn't just get outrageously drunk and black out?
Who hasn't? 
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#10 2009-02-20 3:14 am
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Re: Sleep emailing
Pithecanthropus wrote:
jkahless wrote:
Is she sure she didn't just get outrageously drunk and black out?
Who hasn't?
Boring people. People not me. 
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#11 2009-02-20 8:15 am
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I sleepwalk occasionally. I did it a LOT about ten years ago or so, but now, not so much. My wife will tell you some funny tales.
In high school, my girlfriend's sister would sleepwalk and sit down and write out a dream in the first person. It was weird. My girlfriend said she tried to wake her up once and her sister punched her.
EDIT: just read the article... I really dont think what she did was all that novel, I wonder what sort of sleep researchers are being interviewed? Because I have called people on the telephone while asleep, I have drawn a picture in my sleep (it was of of someone sleeping), played the guitar (I didnt believe it at first, my wife told me, she also said she didnt recognize it), carried on a conversation, etc all asleep. And like it said, just driving a car requires someone to know weher the keys are, which car the keys go to and so on, I am surprised that experts are surprised that someone sleepwalking can remember passwords and spelling etc.
EDIT EDIT: Then again, when I am dreaming and reading a book, if I realize I am dreaming, I also realize that I havent been reading anything, like the actual words that are in the book are gibberish at best, and sometimes not even words or recognizable as text.
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