Woman Can’t Cope After Accidentally Adding ‘Situationship’ to Group Chat

Many spend hours agonizing over the perfect text to send to a crush. One woman’s circumstances decided for her.

A viral video posted to TikTok by Morgan Matthews (@uglyfatg0thh) revealed a hilarious blunder she made while sleeping: creating a group chat with the person she was in a “situationship” with, her best friend’s mom and three people she didn’t know to send a long, sleep-induced gibberish message. In just four days, the video has received nearly 50,000 likes and over 700 comments.

Matthews, 23, spoke to Newsweek about the mishap and what came of it.

“Thinking about the time I fully created a five-person group chat and sent this image and a text to them in my sleep,” Matthews captioned the video, hashtagging #sleeptexting.

Matthews said the mishap, which happened one month ago, made her feel a bit ridiculous.

“I felt really silly when it happened, but also I was just genuinely confused at how I managed to type that many W’s in my sleep,” she said. “The three random people—I have no idea who they were—so I was a little…humbled.”

Matthews said that her “situationship”—defined by Oxford Languages as a romantic or sexual relationship that is not quite “established”—texted her after the fact saying they were similarly surprised at how she managed to express so much in her sleep.

Matthews said the text did not affect her relationship with this person, and that “the situationship is still going very strong.”

How did this happen?

The video has left some viewers scratching their heads over how such a thing could happen when someone is unconscious. Matthews told Newsweek that she has no history of sleep-walking but does sleeptalk often: “I say a lot of gibberish.”

Responding to confused and skeptical commenters on the video, she explained that “I fell asleep scrolling on something, and I was on a call, so my screen didn’t automatically turn off.”

Despite how strange it seems, many in the comments could relate—Matthews’ situation doesn’t seem to be that uncommon.

“I downloaded the Taco Bell app in my sleep once, logged in and everything,” @fruit.rabbit wrote.

“I texted my boyfriend in my sleep one time, ‘My grandpa put a fishing hook in my ankle,'” @qodiea said.

The Sleep Foundation has published a definition for “sleep texting,” a phenomenon that may resonate with Matthews and others.

The organization explains it as people replying to or sending text messages while they are “technically asleep.” While sleep texting is not a diagnosis in and of itself, it is often referred to under the same umbrella as other parasomnias—that is, “abnormal behaviors that occur during sleep, while falling asleep or while waking up.”

The Foundation said that like with other parasomnias—like sleepwalking—people often do not remember their behaviors the next day. This makes Matthews’ experience, for her, all the more elusive to understand.

People in the comments don’t seem so concerned, though. These behaviors certainly do make for gut-busting stories popular on- and offline. And, as Matthews said, her “situationship” is along for the ride.