The stress of daily life has sparked a new phenomenon - sleep texting. Sleep experts said the phenomenon was also a natural extension of the younger generation's reliance on modern technology.
生活中的压力现在已经引起了一种新现象：梦中发短信。睡眠专家表示这种现象也是因为年轻一代对现代科技依赖的自然发展结果。
People with the rare condition send incoherent text messages while asleep to their friends and family - completely unaware that they are doing it.
在极少的情况下，人们会在睡梦中给家人和朋友发一些语无伦次的文字短信，他们对自己的行为完全没有意识。
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.
澳大利亚墨尔本睡眠障碍中心的睡眠专家David Cunnington博士说有一些病人有睡梦中发短信的病例记录。他也建议人们不要把手机放在卧室里。
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.'
他表示：“我们曾经发现有病人在睡梦中给家人和朋友发短信。这只是偶然事件，很少见，并没有形成普遍的趋势。”
Unsurprisingly, there are no studies into sleep texting - but a similar phenomenon, sleep emailing, was studied in 2008.
所以现在没有关于梦中发短信的研究也不奇怪，不过在2008年有过相似的研究：梦中发邮件。