Sleepy Fingers

Slexting?

"I twist and turn for at least two or three hours before I actually fall asleep," said 16-year-old Elizabeth Hammonds.

When Hammonds finally falls asleep, the unexpected happens. Some people may experience night terrors, sleepwalking and even sleep eating, but for Hammonds, who carries her cell phone everywhere, it's sleep texting.

She doesn't realize she's sending text messages while she's sleeping until the next morning, thanks to her friends.

"You sent me a text message at three in the morning and I didn't know what you meant by it," she said.

To get a good night's sleep, doctors recommend leaving your cell phone somewhere else, so your fingers don't do the walking.

He also suggests making your children go to bed a little earlier to decrease the desire to use the phone.

A couple shots of Jack before bedtime does the trick.

One conservative young patient was alarmed to find herself sleep "sexting" - sending compromising photos of herself in her sleep.

*cough*bullshit*cough*

More likely mommy found out about her snowflake's virtual sexcapades, and now Ms Popular (with-the-boys) is all "Oh, but it's sleep texting, mommy-dearest! I'd neeeeeevvver do anything like that! I'm a good lil' Christian girl!"

Dr. Schmidt says the phenomenon is so new, that there's not much research yet...

And there, gentlemen, is the real cause behind the newly-minted phenomena of "sleep texting": he's tilling the ground to plant some fat and juicy grants.