Doctors announced a new form of sleep disturbance - "SMS sleepwalking"
Last reviewed: 21.11.2021
All iLive content is medically reviewed or fact checked to ensure as much factual accuracy as possible.
We have strict sourcing guidelines and only link to reputable media sites, academic research institutions and, whenever possible, medically peer reviewed studies. Note that the numbers in parentheses ([1], [2], etc.) are clickable links to these studies.
If you feel that any of our content is inaccurate, out-of-date, or otherwise questionable, please select it and press Ctrl + Enter.
Doctors say that recently there has been an increase in cases of a new form of sleepwalking - "SMS-sleepwalking". In contrast to the usual sleepwalking, in which people in a dream walk, talk, eat, have sex, SMS-sleepwalking manifests itself in the sending of SMS and e-mails.
Neurologists say that the appearance of this form of sleepwalking is quite possible, since the writing of SMS messages occurs without the active participation of motor skills and the brain.
A well-known case of SMS-sleepwalking, when the author in a dream sent messages to his mother, describing the nightmares that he was experiencing.
Recently, a case of so-called "electronic sleepwalking" was recorded when a 44-year-old woman in a dream sent emails, while she could turn on the computer, enter a login and password, write, albeit with errors, but a completely understandable letter, and send it to a random addressee . However, in the morning she could not remember anything.
Since this form of sleepwalking is only beginning to be studied by specialists, and the methods of treatment are still unknown, doctors advise to remove mobile phones away from the bed.
Sleepwalking is a violation of sleep, which manifests itself in the rise of a person from a bed and movement in a dream.
Cases of sleepwalking are possible only during the deep phase of sleep. Lunatics do not react to the environment, they talk incoherently, and in the morning they do not remember anything.
Often sleepwalking manifests itself in childhood, although recently cases of sleepwalking in adulthood are increasingly recorded.