Confirmed: Sleep E-Mailing Makes You Look Like a Jackass
Medical fact: Falling asleep at the keyboard can lead to some colorful e-mails.
Here’s a wake-up call for you: Researchers say they’ve come across the world’s first known case of sleep e-mailing. Apparently, inebriated e-mailing wasn’t entertaining enough.
The snooze-centric incident, highlighted in the medical journal Sleep Medicine, involves a 44-year-old woman observed at the University of Toledo. The woman, her good docs say, got up two hours after dozing off and marched straight to her computer. She powered up, logged on, and fired off three separate messages.
Message #1 (original punctuation maintained):
“Come tomorrow and sort this hell hole out. Dinner and drinks, 4.pm,. Bring wine and caviar only.”
Message #2:
“What the…….”
The third message hasn’t been publicly released, so I’ll take the liberty of making it up:
“Pork belly fandango mustard; Elton John ricotta where are my slippers? meep meep .”
Back to reality, though: The woman was able to remember her password and successfully send all three messages. Yet, the next morning, she was said to be “shocked” to discover what she’d done. The doctors say the complexity of the whole thing sets it apart from other kinds of midsleep activities — walking, talking, even sleep-sex. (It’s a real thing — I promise. And not just in the “bored gal drifting off during a tedious session” sort of way.)
In related news, researchers have just observed what’s believed to be the world’s first known case of sleep article-writing on a tech-humor Web site. The writer involved asked to remain unnamed.
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