You're in bed. You've checked Instagram and read all of your emails. Your phone is sitting next to your bed, charging. You let out a big sigh as you snuggle into your covers. You're sleepy, you're settled and excited to go to bed.

Then you hear a ding from your phone...

Since you're already snuggled in blankets, you decide you won't open the text. Then you remember your phone will buzz again if you don't pick it up because it's set that way. You make a mental note to change your phone settings so you only get one ring.

The problem is that if you wait to open the text until the morning you won't know who texted you, and that could just about drive a person crazy. You decide you will just look at who texted you, but you’ll wait until the morning to respond (you really need the sleep). If it's a friend I can more easily put it down without opening it... but if it's a potential bae you will need to read it immediately.

Though you know that if you read it, you will want to respond, you decide. "I’m just going to look! Look and then go back to sleep!" After seeing that it is indeed a potential bae, you will want to open it. After opening it, you'll certainly want to respond.

You respond. He responds.

You want to see what he will say next. You're wide awake at this point. Waiting for his response. He responds. You come up with witty banter. You grow more tired as the conversation grows. Decide to end convo & pick it up the next day. He says goodnight with an emoji. You then over analyze what that emoji meant....what did the heart really mean? You now have to decide what emoji to send back...the heart eyes? The sleeping face? The "Zzzz"? The waving hand?

You also have to decide what you want the emoji to say: "I miss you," "wish you were here," "we're just friends," "I'm not interested but I like the attention," etc. The possibilities are endless. He then doesn't respond, which sends your brain into overdrive. Did he fall asleep? Does he want the conversation to end? Will he text me in the morning?

You rethink the whole convo and dissect every period, ellipses, bitmoji and meme..."What did it all mean?" and "What does this mean for the future?" After you've decided if you came on too strong or not it's time to actually go to bed. But...you're wired. Now you will think through ever step of your relationship with said texter and think back to the very beginning. How did this start in the first place? Where did we meet? Is there potential there?

You watch some Snapchat stories because you're more awake now. You open up Instagram and Twitter to see if anything has changed. There are a few new posts and pictures, but really nothing life-changing. You put your phone back on the nightstand and decided it's now really time to go to bed. Your mind wanders back to said texter as you drift off to sleep. Sweet dreams.