Sleep Mailing

Doctors have reported the first case of someone using the internet while asleep, when a sleeping woman sent emails to people asking them over for drinks and caviar. The 44-year-old woman found out what she had done after a would be guest phoned her about it the next day. While asleep the woman turned on her computer, logged on by typing her username and password then composed and sent three emails. Each mail was in a random mix of upper and lower cases, unformatted and written in strange language. 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......." If I had known that researchers were interested in unformatted, rambling email I would have let them read my inbox. They could start a whole new school of medicine.

Yah right

[eln]

Look lady, I show up to your house with wine and caviar and you make up some lame excuse about "sleep emailing". If you didn't want the second date, you should have just said so! I'm a Slashdotter, I'm used to rejection, there's no need to lead me on and come up with lame excuses at the last minute.

Yeah, I see the solution so clearly now.

[deft]

Yeah, I see the solution so clearly now, Was trying to solve this riddle for years.

'Cheating on your husband' is to 'virgin birth'
as 'drunken emailing' is to 'sleep mailing'.

SOLVED!

Oblig.

[robinsonne]

http://xkcd.com/269/ [xkcd.com]

Sleep Posting

[Joe the Lesser]

iN SovIET RUsia, U must BE New OVERlordS, PROFit1!

Re:Idle?

[ipX]

'Jumping the shark' has jumped the shark.

Re:Idle?

[ChromeAeonium]

Why is this filtering into my regular slashdot now?

The second case of someone using the internet while asleep?

look out below...

[ipX]

...it's a slippery slope to "sleep procrastination"

Re:Yah right

[msu320]

Look lady, I show up to your house with wine and caviar and you make up some lame excuse about "sleep emailing". If you didn't want the second date, you should have just said so! I'm a Slashdotter, I'm used to rejection, there's no need to lead me on and come up with lame excuses at the last minute.

Your a self admitted slashdotter. You were Doomed the moment she opened her eyes!

I'll sleepwalk when I'm stressed

[Skyshadow]

I have a history of sleepwalking from time to time, usually when very stressed.

Back in 2000 when I was trying to find a job before college ended, I got up, logged into my Linux box, sudo'ed to root and changed the root password -- to this day, I have no idea what I reset that sucker to.

In 2002 when I was (rightly) worried I was about to be laid off, I crawled into our closet, started tossing my wife's shows out and screaming about needing to rewire to stop my idiot users. I have no idea.

Anyhow, based on the few times I've woken up during this, it's like I'm acting in a way that makes perfect sense but obviously does not -- I'm operating from a completely made-up set of rules for my reality.

easily explainable

[CarpetShark]

Actually, she's not lying to you. What many slashdotters fail to realise is that their boring effect on women also spreads back in time. So not only can we put women to sleep; we can put them to sleep right back to when they first contacted us.

Re:Idle?

[Anonymous Coward]

You'll get over it.

Warmest regards,

Jeff Bates

Re:not uncommon

[TheLostSamurai]

I used to take Ambien, but was lucky enough to not have any of those things happen to me while I was sleeping. I did however suffer another side effect, Sexsomnia [wikipedia.org]. Not a bad way to wake up, having sex with someone, but after a few times my girlfriend just starting slapping me in the face to wake me up.

Also, none of my friends seemed to want to go camping with me.

Re:Idle?

[MRe_nl]

Come in tomorrow and sort this godawful Web 2.0 hell hole out.
Bring wine and caviar only.

Sincerly yours
Cmdr. Taco

Re:Idle?

[Anonymous Coward]

You need to get out of your parents basement, nerd. If you ever get a life you will learn that there is more to life then programming and science stories. I for one would be happy to see a more normal audience around here, and this kind of story helps to draw these people in.

Re:Idle?

[virgil_disgr4ce]

Explain how the present interface is a "godawful Web 2.0 mess."

Re:not uncommon

[princessproton]

Gmail's "Mail Goggles" [blogspot.com] feature is starting to sound more and more useful...

Sleep writing

[david.given]

Back in 2005 I entered Nanowrimo: National Novel Writing Month. You have to write a 50,000 short novel in the month of November. That's a lot of writing. It took me about two hours per day, every day, and as I suck at scheduling this meant I ended up doing it late at night instead of sleeping.

The result was that I would occasionally fall asleep at the keyboard. And keep writing. Some of it was gibberish:

I spent the rest of the night running things over in my head, tyo get them straight before running down, and helping a friend try and find a contact lens he once dropped on the beach.

Some of it made sense, but was just strange:

Personally, I suspected that those rock-eating worm creatures had just taken over the planet. It would probably sdve a lot of time.

(No, rock-eating worm creatures did not feature anywhere in the story.)

Some of it was my subconscious talking to me:

I was beginnig to become a veteran; the mind-numbing perspectives flashed by, until I became aware of a jagged corner on the side of another corner and cnother...

I shook my head and the nightmarish image faded. Must get some more sleep, I thought idly.

But I was really pleased with this, which is an entire appropriate nightmare dream sequence that I wrote in my sleep:

My dreams, such as they were, were haunted by the memory of magic: the feel of the magician rummaging around in the back of my mind; the inexpressible flow of power as I held the power stone; watching Chrana's grain of sugar skipping about on the table... power and energy flowed round in endless circles, while I was trapped in the middle unable to dip my hands into the flow. On one side of the vortex Sarah screamed and threw her hands up in front of her face as the car spun. On the other, Chrana gleefully juggled monstrous blocks of sugar. At last, with a burst of sheer willpower, I flung myself into the flow only to discover that I had limitless power but nothing to focus on. I strove for focus and perceived the universe, but was powerless to change anything...

(All typos original. This is all first draft stuff, straight from my subconscious!)

Unfortunately the whole thing, a technical fantasy novel, turned out to have pretty major plot flaws in it which I never got round to fixing. But if I ever end up finishing it, that last passage is definitely going in.

Re:Idle?

[Schemat1c]

Explain how the present interface is a "godawful Web 2.0 mess."

You have eyes don't you?

Re:Idle?

[Bill, Shooter of Bul]

Yeah, I'm seriously considering creating a mashup website that just interfaces with slashdot, and then cleans up the interface. Idle will not exist at all. Attempting to manipulate the url to goto idle, will result in the user's death, or possibly a just redirect them to digg, which ever is not considered a felony in more places.

Re:Idle?

[Jesus_666]

Wine32 or wine64? And which size Caviar? Caviar Green, Black, Blue, RE3...?

Come on man, this is a tech website. Or at least it used to be. You could at least sleep-post a bit more precisely.

Re:Idle?

[Zarf]

In Soviet Russia the shark jumps /.

Re:Idle?

[lgw]

I don't think IE users get the Godawful Web 2.0 Interface(tm). At least, I've never seen it (though the change to the comments page sucks goatse).

Re:Sounds like the work of Ambien or some other dr

[Tubal-Cain]

Where is the evil bit in all of this?