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 I did what? Dr David Cunnington claims 'sleep texting' sufferers send incoherent messages to friends and family members - and have no recollection of doing so |
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The stress of daily life has sparked a new phenomenon - sleep texting. People with the rare condition send incoherent text messages while asleep to their friends and family - completely unaware that they are doing it. Sleep specialist Dr David Cunnington, of Melbourne Sleep Disorder Centre in Australia, said patients had reported incidents of sleep texting - and he has advised people to leave their mobile phones outside the bedroom. He said: 'We have had patients who have reported sending text messages to their friends and family while asleep. 'It is one of those things that happens, but it is very rare, and certainly not a common trend.' Unsurprisingly, there are no studies into sleep texting - but a similar phenomenon, sleep emailing, was studied in 2008. Researchers at the University of Toledo reported the case of a woman, 44, who would compose emails while sound asleep. She had no recollection of sending the emails when awake. Dr Cunnington said cases of sleep emailing were more common, and were likely to have a more detrimental effect on the lives of sufferers. He said: 'Emails can be sent to work colleagues and have much more serious consequences, whereas text messages are more likely to be accidentally sent to a friend or family member, so people aren't as likely to complain of a problem.' Dr Cunnington described sleep texting as the result of people having too much to do during waking life. He explained: 'People are doing so much during a normal day that it can mean that they feel like they're "on call" even at night. 'Because it's so easy to receive emails constantly, and get notifications from smartphones, it becomes more difficult for us to separate our waking and sleeping lives.' Dr Cunnington said people struggling to get a quality night's sleep should keep their phones out of the bedroom. 'The key point is that people need to respect their sleep, and make an effort to switch off at night.' (Read by Nelly Min. Nelly Min is a journalist at the China Daily Website.) (Agencies) |
日常生活的壓力引發(fā)了一種新現(xiàn)象——發(fā)“睡眠短信”。 患上這一異癥的人會在睡著的時候給朋友和家人發(fā)送不連貫的短信息，而當(dāng)事人卻完全意識不到自己在發(fā)短信。 澳大利亞墨爾本睡眠失調(diào)研究中心的睡眠專家戴維?康寧頓醫(yī)生說，患者曾報告自己在睡著時發(fā)短信的情況，對此他建議人們將手機放在臥室外面。 他說：“我們這里曾經(jīng)有患者報告說，他們在睡著時給自己的朋友和家人發(fā)短信。” “這種事也會發(fā)生，但十分罕見，而且肯定不是普遍趨勢。” 目前還沒有針對“睡眠短信”的研究，這并不令人驚訝，不過一個類似的現(xiàn)象——“睡眠電郵”——2008年曾有人研究過。 托萊多大學(xué)的研究人員在報告中曾提到過一個44歲的女性，該女性在熟睡時還能寫電子郵件。她在醒來后完全記不起曾發(fā)過電子郵件。 康寧頓醫(yī)生說，“睡眠電郵”的案例更普遍，而且可能會給患者的生活帶來更多有害影響。 他說：“電子郵件會被發(fā)送給同事，后果嚴重得多，而短信則更可能被偶然發(fā)送給朋友或家人，這些人比較不會抱怨。” 康寧頓醫(yī)生認為，因為人們在醒著的時候有太多的事情要做，由此誘發(fā)了“睡眠短信”。 他解釋說：“人們在日常的一天中所做的事情太多，這會讓他們即使在晚上也有‘隨時待命’的感覺。 “因為持續(xù)地接收電子郵件很容易，又能隨時聽到智能手機的提示音，所以我們要將清醒和睡著時的生活分開變得困難起來。” 康寧頓醫(yī)生說，那些難以睡好覺的人應(yīng)該把手機放在臥室外面。 “重點在于人們需要重視睡眠，并盡量在晚上關(guān)機。” 相關(guān)閱讀 （中國日報英語點津 陳丹妮 編輯：Julie） |
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Vocabulary: incoherent: 無條理的；不連貫的 sound asleep: 熟睡的 recollection: 回憶，記憶 detrimental: 有害的，不利的 accidentally: 偶然地，意外地 on call: 隨時待命，隨叫隨到 |
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