dreamworld

From dream + world. Compare West Frisian dreamwrâld (“dreamworld”), Dutch droomwereld, dromenwereld (“dreamworld”), German Traumwelt (“dreamworld”), Danish drømmeverden (“dreamworld”), Swedish drömvärld (“dreamworld”).

At midnight they left the air-conditioned dream-world and entered the oven of the street.

1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 358:

An imaginary world, such as experienced while dreaming.


dreamland

en-noun

dreamland (countable and uncountable, plural dreamlands)

An imaginary world experienced while dreaming.


sleepful

en-adj

sleepful (comparative more sleepful, superlative most sleepful)

more sleepful (comparative)
most sleepful (superlative)

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From Middle English slepeful, slepful, equivalent to sleep + -ful.

a sleepful night


sweet dreams

(idiomatic) Said to someone before they fall asleep, wishing them a good sleep.

dobrou noc a ať tě blechy štípou celou noc


gonk

I'm going off to have a gonk.

(New Zealand, military, slang) A sleep; a nap.


gonk

en-verb

gonk (third-person singular simple present gonks, present participle gonking, simple past and past participle gonked)

gonks (present singular third-person)
gonking (participle present)
gonked (participle past)
gonked (past)

He gonked out on the bed.


sleeping tablet

en-noun

sleeping tablet (plural sleeping tablets)

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slumber party

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A sleepover; a party where people stay and sleep overnight.


food coma

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(informal, humorous) A state of lethargy and sleepiness that comes on shortly after eating a large or heavy meal.

飯氣攻心

state of lethargy after eating a large meal


toss and turn

en-verb

toss and turn (third-person singular simple present tosses and turns, present participle tossing and turning, simple past and past participle tossed and turned)

tosses and turns (present singular third-person)
tossing and turning (participle present)
tossed and turned (participle past)
tossed and turned (past)

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I didn't get a wink of sleep. I was tossing and turning all night long.

for, after tossing and turning the greatest part of the night, and tormenting myself with the falsest notions and apprehensions of things, I fell, through mere fatigue, into a kind of delirious doze

1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC:

To be unable to settle into a comfortable sleeping position.


sleep on

sleep on (third-person singular simple present sleeps on, present participle sleeping on, simple past and past participle slept on)

sleeps on (present singular third-person)
sleeping on (participle present)
slept on (participle past)
slept on (past)

People are really sleeping on that restaurant down the street.

I can't believe I slept on that movie for so long.

(idiomatic, slang) To miss or ignore; to underappreciate; to underestimate the quality of something.


sleep with

sleep with (third-person singular simple present sleeps with, present participle sleeping with, simple past and past participle slept with)

sleeps with (present singular third-person)
sleeping with (participle present)
slept with (participle past)
slept with (past)

My daughter has to sleep with her teddy bear or she gets scared.

(literal) To share a bed or bedroom with.


sleep debt

en-noun

sleep debt (countable and uncountable, plural sleep debts)

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Adenosine levels can be quickly righted after a few nights of good sleep, however. This gave rise to a scientific consensus that sleep debt could be forgiven with a couple of quality snoozes — as reflected in casual statements like “I’ll catch up on sleep” or “I’ll be more awake tomorrow.”

2022 June 24, Oliver Whang, “The Sleep Debt Collector Is Here”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

The cumulative effect of not obtaining enough sleep, especially as seen as able to be made up for by sleeping more than usual.


doze off

en-verb

doze off (third-person singular simple present dozes off, present participle dozing off, simple past and past participle dozed off)

dozes off (present singular third-person)
dozing off (participle present)
dozed off (participle past)
dozed off (past)

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Therefore, what the train of the future must do is offer a comfortable and enjoyable experience in well-designed carriages that (for example) have pleasant lighting, have seats that align with windows, and which are comfortable enough so that you can doze off without having to call your oesteopath as soon as you wake up.

2021 April 7, Christian Wolmar, “Electrification is a given... but comfort matters as well”, in RAIL, number 928, page 47:


half-asleep

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He gently lifted the half-asleep child into bed.

Showing signs of being asleep or very sleepy, as not demonstrating full energy or attention.


neverland

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From Never + land. The term was most famously used in J.M. Barrie's Book, Peter Pan, as the name of the fictional island that the Darling children visit with the title character. Compare Utopia, which is semantically Ancient Greek οὐ (ou, “not, no”) + τόπος (tópos, “place, region”).

affix

An ideal or imaginary place; a dreamworld.


dozy

en-adj

dozy (comparative dozier, superlative doziest)

dozier (comparative)
doziest (superlative)

Jim is a dozy child.


obdormition

/ɑb.dɔːɹˈmɪ.ʃən/

(obsolete) Falling asleep; the condition of being asleep.


hypnopompic

From hypno- (“sleep”) + Ancient Greek πομπή (pompḗ, “a sending away”) + -ic.

af

Relating to the state of consciousness before becoming completely awake.

hypnopompinen

relating to the state of consciousness before becoming completely awake


nangry

(obsolete, Australian Aboriginal) To sleep.


coldsleep

By converting some of the recreation space to storerooms and adapting the storerooms thus cleared to the purpose of cold-sleep, the ship was roomy enough.

1941 August, Robert A. Heinlein, “Methuselah's Children”, in John W. Campbell, editor, Astounding Science-Fiction, volume 27, number 6:

He had always believed Arcadia lovely, an undespoiled planet waiting for man like a bride, more than worth decades in coldsleep aboard a spaceship, toil and danger of pioneering, isolation from the rest of humankind.

1968 September, Poul Anderson, “The Faun”, in Boys' Life, volume 58, number 9, page 33:

A deep sleep during which the body is stored at very cold temperature, to preserve it; cryogenic sleep.


coldsleep

en-verb

coldsleep (third-person singular simple present coldsleeps, present participle coldsleeping, simple past and past participle coldslept)

coldsleeps (present singular third-person)
coldsleeping (participle present)
coldslept (participle past)
coldslept (past)

Damnation, he was quite capable of refusing to let me cold-sleep.

1956 October, Robert A. Heinlein, “The Door into Summer”, in Anthony Boucher, editor, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, volume 11, number 4:

The escape capsule in which he'd cold-slept had had another minor malfunction that left him staring drugged and half conscious through the port glass at open space for two days before the cryogenic process had kicked in.

1990, Anne McCaffrey, Jody Lynn Nye, The Death of Sleep:

To experience deep sleep whilst the body is stored at a very cold temperature; to engage in cryogenic sleep.


sleep like a log

sleep like a log (third-person singular simple present sleeps like a log, present participle sleeping like a log, simple past and past participle slept like a log)

sleeps like a log (present singular third-person)
sleeping like a log (participle present)
slept like a log (participle past)
slept like a log (past)

(simile) To sleep heavily, long and without disturbance.

𰥛到成只猪噉 (fan³ dou³ seng⁴ zek³ zyu¹ gam², literally “sleep like a pig”)

睡得像死猪 (shuì dé xiàng sǐ zhū, literally “sleep like a dead pig”)


sack out

sack out (third-person singular simple present sacks out, present participle sacking out, simple past and past participle sacked out)

sacks out (present singular third-person)
sacking out (participle present)
sacked out (participle past)
sacked out (past)

Outgrowth of the earlier idiom, to hit the sack, with possible influences from other senses of to sack (“tackle, pillage”, verb), and to sock (“hit, slam”, verb), providing an implication that sleep has been thrust upon a person.

The kids sacked out in the back seat before we made it home.

(slang) To fall asleep, usually from implied exhaustion.


somnambulation

en-noun

somnambulation (countable and uncountable, plural somnambulations)

From Latin somnus (“sleep”) + ambulatio (“a walking about”), from ambulare (“to walk”). See somnolent, amble.

He broke his arm on one of his many somnambulations.


hypnoid

en-adj

hypnoid (comparative more hypnoid, superlative most hypnoid)

more hypnoid (comparative)
most hypnoid (superlative)

Of, pertaining to, or resembling sleep (or hypnosis)


hypnoidal

hypnoidal (comparative more hypnoidal, superlative most hypnoidal)

more hypnoidal (comparative)
most hypnoidal (superlative)

A tormenting hunger shuddered through her and she wished she could put aside the power. Oh, to be as others were — blind in that safest of all blindnesses, living only the hypnoidal half-life into which birth-shock precipitated most humans.


actigraphy

With actigraphy, the participant wears a wrist band with a small acceleration sensor that records movement over preset epochs.

2006, Steven Jones, Richard P. Bentall, The Psychology of Bipolar Disorder, Oxford University Press:

The urban poor in developing countries face challenging living environments, which may interfere with good sleep. Using actigraphy to measure sleep objectively, we find that low-income adults in Chennai, India sleep only 5.5 hours per night on average despite spending 8 hours in bed.

2021 April 8, Pedro Bessone, Gautam Rao, Frank Schilbach, Heather Schofield, Mattie Toma, “The Economic Consequences of Increasing Sleep among the Urban Poor”, in The Quarterly Journal of Economics, number qjab013, →DOI, →ISSN:

The use of the actigraph to record the movements of a sleeping subject, and analyze the subject's sleep patterns.

actimétrie

the use of the actigraph to record the movements of a sleeping subject


saw wood

en-verb

saw wood (third-person singular simple present saws wood, present participle sawing wood, simple past sawed wood, past participle sawed wood or sawn wood)

saws wood (present singular third-person)
sawing wood (participle present)
sawed wood (past)
sawed wood (participle past)
sawn wood (participle past)

Monsignor Charles Kekumano, 78, was snoring loudly in his bed. Every so often, he would stop sawing wood—and break into the delightfully mischievous grin that made him so famous.

1998 January 23, Diane Chang, “Monsignor Kekumano is now in heaven”, in Honolulu Star-Bulletin:

"You keep all of Mouse Lodge awake sawing wood every night. You're a fine one to complain about someone else snoring."

2009, Elizabeth Haydon, The Dragon's Lair, →ISBN, page 125:


night terror

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The sleep data are analyzed to determine if there is a consistent pattern when the night terrors occur. The parent is instructed to wake the child 15 to 30 minutes before the night terror typically occurs.

2017, Marie Ardill, Ashley A. Houston, Constance J. Dalenberg, “Night Terror”, in edited by Amy Wenzel, The SAGE Encyclopedia of Abnormal and Clinical Psychology, SAGE Publications, →ISBN, page 2287:

(pathology) An interruption of sleep caused by anxiety, panic or screaming.


shut-eye

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With the night so quiet and peaceful, though, there was nothing he could do except return to camp and try to get a little shut-eye himself.

2008, William W. Johnstone, J. A. Johnstone, Preachers Showdown, Pinnacle Books, →ISBN, page 172:


how can you sleep at night

rhetorical question
rhetorical question#English

A rhetorical question, used to tell someone that they should feel guilty about something.


sleep disorder

(pathology) A medical disorder of the sleep patterns of a person or animal.


sloom

From Middle English *sloume, sloumbe, slume, from Old English slūma (“sleep, slumber”), from Proto-Germanic *slūm- (“to be slack, loose, or limp”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)lew- (“limp, flabby”). Compare slumber and Dutch sloom.


sloom

en-verb

sloom (third-person singular simple present slooms, present participle slooming, simple past and past participle sloomed)

slooms (present singular third-person)
slooming (participle present)
sloomed (participle past)
sloomed (past)

From Middle English slumen, slummen, from Old English *slūmian (“to slumber, sleep gently”), from Proto-Germanic *slūm- (“to be slack, loose, or limp”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)lew- (“limp, flabby”).

inh

The squire sloomed and slept in his chair; and finally, after a cup of tea, went to bed.

1886, Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr, The Squire of Sandal-Side A Pastoral Romance:

To his castle’s portal, / At the morning gloaming, / Bore they all the mortal / From the battle’s foaming, / Of the white bannered warrior knight, / Cold in his armor slooming!

a. 1853, Jane Ermina Locke, “Elia”, in The Recalled: In Voices of the Past, and Poems of the Ideal, James Munroe and Company, published 1854, page 193:

Then the doctor was slooming and nodding, and waking up and saying a word or two, and relapsing again into semi-unconsciousness.

1900, Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr, The Maid of Maiden lane, Dodd, Mead and Company, page 181:

The afternoon sun painted amber patterns on the Turkey red hearthrug: the only splash of colour in the dun room. Potter sloomed in the arms of the chair.

1936, Esmond Quinterley, Ushering Interlude, The Fortune Press, page 66

He lay slooming half-asleep, half-awake, thinking about Tuesday afternoon.

2001, Gemma O'Connor, Walking on Water, Berkley Publishing Group (2003), page 205

(Scotland) To sleep lightly, to doze, to nod; to be half-asleep.


don't let the bedbugs bite

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Sleep tight […] don’t let the bedbugs bite!

(colloquial, humorous) Used to wish a person a good night’s sleep.


sleep mask

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a blindfold made to ease sleeping by covering the eyes to block all light.


somnolytic

en-adj

somnolytic (comparative more somnolytic, superlative most somnolytic)

more somnolytic (comparative)
most somnolytic (superlative)


somniloquy

en-noun

somniloquy (countable and uncountable, plural somniloquies)

From somni- (“sleep”) + -loquy (“speaking, speech”).

affix

(countable) Words spoken while sleeping.


beauty sleep

en-noun

beauty sleep (countable and uncountable, plural beauty sleeps)

But eager as Kate was for her beauty sleep, the light burned late in her room; and long after she had seen Mrs. Murray snugly tucked in for the night, she sat with Ranald's open letter in her hand, reading it till she almost knew it by heart.

1901, Ralph Connor, “A Good True Friend”, in The Man from Glengarry: A Tale of the Ottawa, Toronto, Ont.: The Westminster Company, →OCLC, page 428:

"I know I ought to be taking a beauty sleep," she thought, "so I'll be all fresh and fine for the evening, but I must find it [a piece of turquoise], for I promised Phil I'd wear it."

1906 October, Annie Fellows Johnston, “The Wedding”, in The Little Colonel: Maid of Honor, Boston, Mass.: L[ouis] C[oues] Page & Company, published August 1907, →OCLC:

(uncountable, chiefly humorous) Extra sleep; also (generally), any sleep; (countable) an instance of this; an extra nap.


unwakeable

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beddy-bye

(idiomatic, baby-talk, childish) Bedtime for a toddler, going to sleep, going to bed, sleeping.


naptime

naptime (countable and uncountable, plural naptimes)

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beauty-sleep

A medical man, who may be called up at any moment, must make sure of his ‘beauty-sleep.’

1857, Charles Kingsley, “The Cruise of the Waterwitch”, in Two Years Ago, volume II, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 148:

And would I please to remember that I had roused him up at night, and the quality always made a point of paying four times over for a man's loss of his beauty-sleep. I replied that his loss of beauty-sleep was rather improving to a man of so high complexion; and that I, being none of that quality, must pay half-quality prices; […]

1869, R[ichard] D[oddridge] Blackmore, chapter XII, in Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor. […], volume III, London: Sampson Low, Son, & Marston, […], →OCLC, pages 187–188:


drift off

en-verb

drift off (third-person singular simple present drifts off, present participle drifting off, simple past and past participle drifted off)

drifts off (present singular third-person)
drifting off (participle present)
drifted off (participle past)
drifted off (past)

He went to sleep, lying there under a wing of his plane, and presently Bland himself drifted off into dreams.

1919, B. M. Bower, chapter 5, in The Thunder Bird:

(intransitive, idiomatic) To fall asleep slowly.


snoozy

en-adj

snoozy (comparative snoozier, superlative snooziest)

snoozier (comparative)
snooziest (superlative)

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While the basic automatic-transmission 528xi takes a snoozy 7.6 seconds to reach 60 miles an hour, the 535xi blazes there in 5.6 seconds, a remarkable two-second advantage.

2007 October 7, Lawrence Ulrich, “Same Carriage, Fresh Horses”, in New York Times:


sleeptalk

en-verb

sleeptalk (third-person singular simple present sleeptalks, present participle sleeptalking, simple past and past participle sleeptalked)

sleeptalks (present singular third-person)
sleeptalking (participle present)
sleeptalked (participle past)
sleeptalked (past)

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(intransitive) To talk unconsciously in one's sleep.


hypersomnia

en-noun

hypersomnia (countable and uncountable, plural hypersomnias)

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(medicine, pathology) Excessive sleepiness.


hypnopaedia

From hypno- (“sleep”) + Ancient Greek παιδεία (paideía, “education”), popularized in the novel Brave New World (1932).

af

'In the end,' said Mustapha Mond, 'the Controllers realized that force was no good. The slower but infinitely surer methods of ectogenesis, Neo-Pavlovian conditioning and hypnopædia…'

1932, Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, London: Chatto & Windus:

Sometimes this Malay, a youngish man with a most charming smile, would be deferential to Crabbe, showing great anxiety to learn; at other times he would enter the office as though, in sleep, an angel had visited him, teaching him all in painless hypnopaedia.

1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 454:

Teaching (or learning) by subconscious means.


morning sleep

en-noun

morning sleep (usually uncountable, plural morning sleeps)

Until the close of the early modern era, Western Europeans on most evenings experienced two major intervals of sleep bridged by up to an hour or more of quiet wakefulness. […] The succeeding interval of slumber was called “second” or “morning” sleep.

2001 April, A. Roger Ekirch, “Sleep We Have Lost: Pre-Industrial Slumber in the British Isles”, in The American Historical Review, volume 106, number 2, American Historical Association, pages 364–365:

The second sleep of the night in a biphasic sleep pattern, after the watch.


dead sleep

dead sleep (usually uncountable, plural dead sleeps)

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Until the close of the early modern era, Western Europeans on most evenings experienced two major intervals of sleep bridged by up to an hour or more of quiet wakefulness. […] The initial interval of slumber was usually referred to as “first sleep,” or, less often, “first nap” or “dead sleep.”

2001 April, A. Roger Ekirch, “Sleep We Have Lost: Pre-Industrial Slumber in the British Isles”, in The American Historical Review, volume 106, number 2, American Historical Association, page 364:

The first sleep of the night in a biphasic sleep pattern, before the watch.


stay up

en-verb

stay up (third-person singular simple present stays up, present participle staying up, simple past and past participle stayed up)

stays up (present singular third-person)
staying up (participle present)
stayed up (participle past)
stayed up (past)

My plane leaves at 6:00 in the morning, so I plan to stay up until then and sleep on the plane.

She stayed up past her bedtime.

(intransitive) To remain awake, to not go to bed.


dreamware

No use talking, I'm an unpractical, useless dealer in dreamware; a metaphysician who don't know how to fry an egg...

The painting could serve as a sign over a shop selling dreamware. Legend erases the line between conscious and unconscious.

1994, William Corbett, Philip Guston's late work:

So much of our contemporary theological dreamware is about escape. We long for heaven. We fix our eyes on the other world. We want out!

(rare) Things dreamed of; fictions or fantasies.


underslept

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undersleep

undersleep (third-person singular simple present undersleeps, present participle undersleeping, simple past and past participle underslept)

undersleeps (present singular third-person)
undersleeping (participle present)
underslept (participle past)
underslept (past)

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somnology

(medicine) The clinical study and treatment of sleep disorders and irregularities.


land of Nod

From Genesis 4:16, first used by Jonathan Swift as a play on words for the modern-day meaning. Compare nod off.

Neverout. Why, miss, if you fall asleep, somebody may get a pair of gloves. / Col. I'm going to the land of Nod.

1731 (date written), Simon Wagstaff [pseudonym; Jonathan Swift], “Dialogue III”, in A Complete Collection of Genteel and Ingenious Conversation, […], London: […] B[enjamin] Motte […], published 1738, →OCLC, page 214:

From breakfast on through all the day / At home among my friends I stay; / But every night I go abroad / Afar into the land of Nod.

1885, Robert Louis Stevenson, “The Land of Nod”, in A Child's Garden of Verses:

[…] but she was too tired for anything under heaven to disturb her, and after a moment of wakeful dreaming she was in the land of Nod!

1892, Wenona Gilman [pseudonym; Florence Blackburn White Schoeffel], chapter XXX, in Leonie, The Typewriter, New York: Norman L. Munro:

(poetic) The state of sleep, or an imaginary place that one inhabits when asleep.


microsleep

en-noun

microsleep (countable and uncountable, plural microsleeps)

During a microsleep, your brain becomes blind to the outside world for a brief moment—and not just the visual domain, but in all channels of perception.

2017, Matthew Walker, Why We Sleep, Penguin, published 2018, page 134:

It followed RAIB's conclusion that the driver of tram 2551 had lost attention for a period of several seconds before the accident, possibly due to going into a microsleep.

2022 April 6, Paul Stephen, “Network News: Croydon crash: driver and transport bodies charged”, in RAIL, number 954, page 9:

A brief period of sleep, usually of a few seconds, that may result from sleep deprivation or various medical conditions.


well-rested

en-adj

well-rested (comparative more well-rested, superlative most well-rested)

more well-rested (comparative)
most well-rested (superlative)

From well + rested. Compare Middle English ful restid (“well-rested”, literally “fully rested”).

cog

Having had sufficient (or even more than enough) sleep or rest to function optimally during waking hours.


early riser

I was surprised to see him asleep at 10:00, as he's normally such an early riser.

As we strolled along admiring the many-masted vessels, an old man, an early riser and doubtless a poor sleeper (as so many old people are) stopped us.

1987, Gene Wolfe, chapter XXXI, in The Urth of the New Sun, 1st US edition, New York: Tor Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 186:

An hour's pause in the journey, wherein early Risers may practise, each day, upon a diff'rent set of Travelers. Flirting? Cards? Coffee and Chatter? the Hope is for a productive, when not amusing, Hour.

1997, Thomas Pynchon, chapter 33, in Mason & Dixon, 1st US edition, New York: Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN, part Two: America, page 327:

Someone who rises (gets up) early in the morning.


couch surf

en-verb

couch surf (third-person singular simple present couch surfs, present participle couch surfing, simple past and past participle couch surfed)

couch surfs (present singular third-person)
couch surfing (participle present)
couch surfed (participle past)
couch surfed (past)

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Move into your house, I'm a couch surfer, Can I crash at your place again? Just one more night? I'm surfing, couch surfing

1997, James Di Salvio, E. P. Bergen (lyrics and music), “Couch Surfer”, in Glee, performed by Bran Van 3000:

I couch-surfed in my Portland friends' guest rooms (I had a key ring that looked like it belonged to a janitor) while I tried to reinvent myself.

2004, Elizabeth Peavey, Maine & me: ten years of Down East adventures, page 13:

The term homeless youth can include shelter-based or street-based youth, as well as young people couch-surfing (doubled-up with friends or lovers).

2008, Robert Hartmann McNamara, Homelessness in America, volume 1, page 158:

"Couch-surfing allows musicians who couldn't tour before to get out and get their music heard," Fenton says. It also beats sleeping in a van.

2009 January, SPIN, volume 25, number 1, page 26:

To use temporary overnight accommodations in one or more private residences, especially without cash payment.


sexsomnia

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A form of non-rapid eye movement parasomnia that causes people to engage in various sexual acts while they are asleep.

seksiparasomnia

a form of non-rapid eye movement parasomnia that causes people to engage in various sexual acts while they are asleep


pad out

pad out (third-person singular simple present pads out, present participle padding out, simple past and past participle padded out)

pads out (present singular third-person)
padding out (participle present)
padded out (participle past)
padded out (past)

Because of my job I usually pad out just before nine o'clock.

My housemate was very annoyed to find my friends padded out on the lounge room floor this morning.

(idiomatic, slang) To sleep or go to bed.


somnophilia

In contrast, Calef and Weinshel (1972) suggested that somnophilia may be a neurotic equivalent of necrophilia.

2008, D. Richard Laws, William T. O'Donohue, Sexual deviance: theory, assessment, and treatment, page 401:

A paraphilia in which an individual becomes sexually aroused by someone who is unconscious.


sleepable

en-adj

sleepable (comparative more sleepable, superlative most sleepable)

more sleepable (comparative)
most sleepable (superlative)

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It is cool here, or at least sleepable, but Baghdad, I am told, is different. I was advised to do my sleeping in advance.

1922, Walter Raleigh, The Letters of Sir Walter Raleigh 1879 to 1922:

Once we reach the airport the players dump their bags at the American Airlines counter and hasten to the departure gate to secure the most sleepable spaces.

1998, Charles Rosen, Phil Jackson, The Cockroach Basketball League:

The saloon includes long, sleepable settees and a fold-out table.

2002, John Kretschmer, Used Boat Notebook:


sleepdriving

These risks in addition to the more serious problems of sleepwalking and even sleepdriving (see below) raise serious concerns about these drugs.

2008, J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take That Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health:

She hoped she had a sleepdriving problem, too, or else it would be a long walk back to her car, which could only be back at the Lotti.

In 2007, the FDA requested that manufacturers of all benzodiazepines include language on the medication label about risks for allergic reactions and complex sleep behaviors including sleepdriving.

2009, Tekoa L. King, Mary C. Brucker, Pharmacology for Women's Health:

(rare) The act of driving a vehicle while asleep and unaware of one's actions.


cosleep

en-verb

cosleep (third-person singular simple present cosleeps, present participle cosleeping, simple past and past participle coslept)

cosleeps (present singular third-person)
cosleeping (participle present)
coslept (participle past)
coslept (past)

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Both parents should feel comfortable with the decision to cosleep with their baby and be committed to following appropriate safety precautions.

2005, Lauwers & Swisher, Counceling the Nursing Mother, page 259:

(intransitive, chiefly sociology) To sleep in the same bed (with someone), especially of a family member, parent, child etc.


oneiro-

From Ancient Greek ὄνειρος (óneiros, “dream”).


sleep off

en-verb

sleep off (third-person singular simple present sleeps off, present participle sleeping off, simple past and past participle slept off)

sleeps off (present singular third-person)
sleeping off (participle present)
slept off (participle past)
slept off (past)

On the other hand, drugs with drowsiness as a side-effect (eg certain types of analgesia, antidepressants) are best administered in the evening so that patients can sleep off the effect and be alert the following day.

2003, Christine Brooker, Maggie Nicol, Nursing adults: the practice of caring:

(idiomatic, intransitive) To get rid of (a pain, illness, condition) by sleeping.


sleep over

sleep over (third-person singular simple present sleeps over, present participle sleeping over, simple past and past participle slept over)

sleeps over (present singular third-person)
sleeping over (participle present)
slept over (participle past)
slept over (past)

To spend the night as a guest in someone's home.

hál

normally all with an adverb of place like ott (“there”) or the relevant form of nála (“at his/her place”)


slumberland

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Julia therefore sank back into slumberland, and forgot all about her friend's dream, but not so Beth. The fear of what she dreamed haunted her...

1903, Dorothy C. Paine, A Little Florida Lady:

An imaginary place inhabited by those who are asleep; (by extension) the state of slumber.


twenty winks

All right, go along to the doting mother, while I stretch out on the settle and chance twenty winks of sleep before Andrew turns up. I never sleep well on the train, as you know.

1931, Henry Berman, Life Demands! And Other Plays:

Twenty winks offered to drivers

2003 November 3, “Twenty winks offered to drivers”, in BBC.co.uk:

Twenty winks [title]

2004 November 10, Annalisa Barbieri, “Twenty winks”, in The Guardian:

(idiomatic) A very short sleep, half as long as forty winks.


stack z's

stack z's (third-person singular simple present stacks z's, present participle stacking z's, simple past and past participle stacked z's)

stacks z's (present singular third-person)
stacking z's (participle present)
stacked z's (participle past)
stacked z's (past)

See z's. Sleeping cartoon characters are often depicted with a string of z's rising from the nose or mouth.


oneiromancer

The interpreter of dreams, like the ancient oneiromancer, often becomes involved in the dream himself and thus runs the risk of no longer being a true witness (which often happens in the analysis of psychotic patients).

1987, Salomon Resnik, The Theatre of Dream, page 9:

He called in an oneiromancer who explained that the dream signified the birth of a daughter.

2000, Tae-sŏk Sŏ, Peter H. Lee, Myths of Korea, page 198:

2002, John Joseph Collins, Peter W. Flint (editors), Cameron VanEpps (assistant), The Book of Daniel: Composition and Reception, Volume 1, page 41,
Although a Neo-Assyrian prayer to the sun-god speaks of the oneiromancer (šā^>ilu) explaining a dream to the king,¹⁰ there is no mention of oneiromancers among the court sages, nor does any of their letters deal with the interpretation of royal dreams.


snoozetime

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(informal) The time when one snoozes or sleeps.


flake out

flake out (third-person singular simple present flakes out, present participle flaking out, simple past and past participle flaked out)

flakes out (present singular third-person)
flaking out (participle present)
flaked out (participle past)
flaked out (past)

(intransitive, informal) To fall asleep from exhaustion or intoxication; to lie down.


PJs

(colloquial, usually childish, abbreviation) pajamas; pyjamas

We lived in the PJs, that's what we called the projects. It was integrated. The people next door were white, and there weren't that many blacks […]

1996, Murray Dubin, South Philadelphia: Mummers, Memories, and the Melrose Diner, page 64:

He had to win over the children in the PJs. Come rain or shine, he continued to walk his parish.

2008, Eric Gutierrez, Disciples of the Street: The Promise of a Hip Hop Church, page 62:

(US, slang) Short for projects (“urban housing developments for people with low incomes”).


cryosleep

“Constantly shifting positions and priorities. Outright deception. And behind it all, the possibility we'll be hit again by this Scourge. Despite all that, their solution is for us to return to cryo. Just take a little nap and all our problems will go away.”[…]
What had Calix and his team become? This was no simple protest. His speech had implied as much. To resist the order to return to cryo-sleep, by definition it made these people a resistance.

2017 March, Jason M. Hough, K. C. Alexander, Mass Effect Andromeda: Nexus Uprising, 1st edition (Science Fiction), Titan Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 369–370:

(science fiction) A deep sleep during which the body is stored at very cold temperature, to preserve it; cryogenic sleep.


bedwear

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In the schoolroom she would sit alone in a loving glow as frail clouds of wool grew through her clever fingers into wraps and misty bedwear for Lady Grizel's birthday or Christmas presents.

Better to be thought chronically shy than to have landladies with duplicate keys sneaking in at night in their bedwear.

She appeared to be wearing a laced white nightgown as the hour of the evening was growing late, with an overcoat over to hide her bedwear.

2011, Calvin J. Boal, Last Run of the Whisperer, page 331:


rise and shine

rise and shine (third-person singular simple present rises and shines, present participle rising and shining, simple past rose and shone, past participle risen and shone)

rises and shines (present singular third-person)
rising and shining (participle present)
rose and shone (past)
risen and shone (participle past)

Good morning, little Martin; rise and shine!

(idiomatic, imperative) Used to wish someone happiness upon waking up

nouse, ole kirkas

used to wish someone happiness upon waking up

ylös, ulos ja lenkille

not wishing happiness, but rather a general urging to get out of bed


co-sleeping

The practice in which babies and young children sleep with one or both parents.


Morphean

en-adj

Morphean (comparative more Morphean, superlative most Morphean)

more Morphean (comparative)
most Morphean (superlative)

Then by the bed-side, where the faded moon / Made a dim, silver twilight, soft he set / A table, and, half anguish'd, threw thereon / A cloth of woven crimson, gold and jet:— / O for some drowsy Morphean amulet!

1819, John Keats, “The Eve of St. Agnes”, in Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], published 1820, →OCLC, stanza XXIX, page 97:

The laird did not awake in any reasonable time; for, he being overcome with fatigue and wassail, his sleep became sounder, and his Morphean measures more intense.

1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Oxford, published 2010, page 8:

(literary) Pertaining to Morpheus; sleepy, soporific, oneiric.


sleepwaker

One in a state of magnetic or mesmeric sleep.


chloralamide

(organic chemistry) A compound of chloral and formic amide, used to induce sleep.


dogsleep

This was Gabriel Varden's state as, nodding in his dog sleep, and leaving his horse to pursue a road with which he was well acquainted, he got over the ground unconsciously, and drew nearer and nearer home.

1841, Charles Dickens, chapter 3, in Barnaby Rudge:

[M]any of the convicts made up for their lack of rest by snatching a dog-sleep in the bared bunks.

1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life, Penguin, published 2009, page 65:

Light or fitful sleep; a nap that is easily interrupted.


sleep tight

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The word tight is sometimes explained as here meaning “well, soundly”. However, it can just as well be interpreted in its literal sense of “firm, fast”; compare fast asleep.

"Thank you for washing the dishes."
"Goodnight, Mr Smith.
"Goodnight, Miss Martin. Sleep tight."
Miss Martin's door closes. Hear her light switch on.
Smith locking latches on doors and windows. Turning off the faint music on the vast radio. The light out under Miss Martin's door.

1963, J P Donleavy, A Singular Man, published 1963 (USA), pages 138, 139:

A farewell said shortly before going to bed; usually said between family members or good friends.


forsleep

en-verb

forsleep (third-person singular simple present forsleeps, present participle forsleeping, simple past and past participle forslept)

forsleeps (present singular third-person)
forsleeping (participle present)
forslept (participle past)
forslept (past)

From Middle English forslepen, equivalent to for- + sleep. Cognate with West Frisian forsliepe (“to forsleep”), Dutch verslapen (“to sleep off, sleep away”), German verschlafen (“to sleep away, oversleep”).

cog

At this moment, Giulietta, who had already forslept and digested the virtue of the potion, awoke and feeling herself kissed, misdoubted her that the friar, being come to take her up and carry her to his chamber, [...]

1890, Matteo Bandello, The novels of Matteo Bandello: bishop of Agen:

(archaic, transitive) To neglect through sleep or by sleeping; sleep through; oversleep; sleep off.


sleep like a top

en-verb

sleep like a top (third-person singular simple present sleeps like a top, present participle sleeping like a top, simple past and past participle slept like a top)

sleeps like a top (present singular third-person)
sleeping like a top (participle present)
slept like a top (participle past)
slept like a top (past)

sleep like a log
sleep like a log#English


sleeptalker

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Often they will wake when their sleeptalking startles another person, who then makes a noise at being woken up, waking the sleeptalker to ask the other "What's wrong?"

2008, Christian Jarrett, Joannah Ginsburg, This Book Has Issues: Adventures in Popular Psychology, Continuum, →ISBN, page 141:

A person who talks unconsciously in their sleep.


hypernychthemeral

Of or relating to a neurological sleep disorder characterized by one- to two-hour daily delays in sleep onset and wake times, i.e. a circadian rhythm greater than a nychthemeron (24 hours).


sleep-in

I didn’t have anything to do Saturday morning, so I decided to have a sleep-in.

An instance of sleeping in, sleeping late, sleeping until one feels fully refreshed rather than rising at a prespecified time.


fatal familial insomnia

A very rare autosomal-dominant inherited prion disease of the brain, in which progressively worsening insomnia leads to hallucinations and delirium.

insónia familiar fatal

a very rare autosomal-dominant inherited prion disease of the brain


delayed sleep phase disorder

en-noun

delayed sleep phase disorder (countable and uncountable, plural delayed sleep phase disorders)

A circadian rhythm sleep disorder in which the subject falls asleep some hours after midnight and has difficulty waking up in the morning.


cork off

en-verb

cork off (third-person singular simple present corks off, present participle corking off, simple past and past participle corked off)

corks off (present singular third-person)
corking off (participle present)
corked off (participle past)
corked off (past)

‘I'm going to sleep on the major's bed,’ Bonello said. ‘I'm going to sleep where the old man corks off.’

1929, Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, Folio Society, published 2008, page 183:


sleep talk

sleep talk (third-person singular simple present sleep talks, present participle sleep talking, simple past and past participle sleep talked)

sleep talks (present singular third-person)
sleep talking (participle present)
sleep talked (participle past)
sleep talked (past)


daysleeper

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"I rose early to speak with you: I know you are a daysleeper."

1975, Lester Del Rey, editor, Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year, volume 4, Dutton, page 96:

I see today with a newsprint fray / My night is colored headache gray / Daysleeper

Individuals and societies may choose to extend days into nights, but this choice can invite sleep disorders, insofar as the sleep needs of daysleepers are understood as variances from social norms of sleep.

2012, Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer, The Slumbering Masses: Sleep, Medicine, and Modern American Life, University of Minnesota Press, →ISBN, page 76:


sleepaholic

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[…] becoming "sleepaholics" — staying in bed as many as fourteen or even sixteen hours a night simply because they can't cope without a challenge.

1974, John Wesley White, Future Hope, Creation House, →ISBN, page 58:

In fact, the New York Theatre Scene outside the safety of the small apartment looked so intimidating that he became a sleepaholic as a means of avoiding it. Sometimes, he would sleep around the clock in order to avoid going outside […]

1983, Douglas Brode, The Films of Dustin Hoffman, Citadel Press, →ISBN, page 14:

Blocking the bed from first view not only helps avoid inviting too much sexual energy into one's life; it also helps if you sleep too much — so, sleepaholics take note as well.

2000, Karen Rauch Carter, Move Your Stuff, Change Your Life: How to Use Feng Shui to Get Love, Money, Respect, and Happiness, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 106:

(informal) A person who loves sleeping or has a tendency to oversleep.


sleeper cab

A truck or lorry cab with a bunk behind the seating area, in which the driver can sleep during rest breaks on long journeys away from home.


clinomania

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An excessive desire to remain in bed; morbid sleepiness.


rough sleeper

In England, meanwhile, government figures show the number of rough sleepers – a small fraction of the total homeless population – climbed from 1,768 in 2010 to 4,677 last year (and since the official count is based on a single evening, charities say the real figure is far higher).

2019 June 3, Jon Henley, “'It’s a miracle': Helsinki's radical solution to homelessness”, in The Guardian:

(idiomatic, euphemistic) A homeless person who sleeps outdoors.


sleep rough

sleep rough (third-person singular simple present sleeps rough, present participle sleeping rough, simple past and past participle slept rough)

sleeps rough (present singular third-person)
sleeping rough (participle present)
slept rough (participle past)
slept rough (past)

From sleep (verb) + rough (“in a rough manner, roughly”, adverb) (a reference to the uncomfortable situation of sleeping outdoors).

I will warrant they prove such roaring boys as I knew when I served under Lumford and Goring, [...] —sleeping rough on the trenches, and dying stubbornly in their boats. Ah! those merry days are gone.

1826, [Walter Scott], chapter IV, in Woodstock; Or, The Cavalier. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, →OCLC, page 93:

[...] I was quite taken out of myself and vowed a vow there to go to Rome on Pilgrimage and see all Europe which the Christian Faith has saved; and I said, "I will start from the place where I served in arms for my sins; I will walk all the way and take advantage of no wheeled thing; I will sleep rough and cover thirty miles a day, and I will hear Mass every morning; and I will be present at High Mass in St. Peter's on the Feast of St Peter and St Paul."

1902, H[ilaire] Belloc, “Praise of This Book”, in The Path to Rome, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co.; London: George Allen, page viii, →OCLC:

To be found sleeping in a public place is like being found without visible means of support—an indictable offence. Further, it is an indication of sin. "He sleeps rough"—therefore he is, doubtless, a thief, a drunkard, and a liar. There seems no reason why similar evidence should not be brought in a contrary sense to prove a man's worth.

1926, Rose Macaulay, A Casual Commentary, New York, N.Y.: Boni & Liveright, →OCLC, page 101:

There is no evidence that anyone sleeps rough or drinks methanol in Oldham. [...] A voluntary organisation, the Bayswater Housing Association, has recently opened a couple of terraced houses for "the homeless".

1975, John Stewart, “Social Services”, in Of No Fixed Abode: Vagrancy and the Welfare State, Manchester: Manchester University Press, →ISBN, page 87:

He was nervy and restless, sick of waiting and sick of hiding. He had slept rough again the last two nights, once in Hyde Park and once under the arches at Charing Cross.

1982, Ken Follett, chapter 12, in The Man from St. Petersburg, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Books, published 2017, →ISBN, page 237:

I am glad to hear what the Government are doing to reduce the number of people sleeping rough. It is a disgrace that anyone sleeps rough. An average of 3 per cent. of local housing owned by Labour local authorities is unoccupied, and in Islington it is 6 per cent. Why cannot it be used by people who are sleeping rough?

1998 February 3, Jonathan Sayeed, “Rough Sleepers”, in House of Commons Hansard (House of Commons of the United Kingdom), volume 305, London: Parliament of the United Kingdom, archived from the original on 2020-10-04:

I have written about Sostratus elsewhere, describing his bulk and enormous strength; how he lived in the open air on Parnassus, slept rough, ate what the mountain provided, and performed deeds which matched his name—killing robbers, and making roads through unbroken country and bridges over impassable places.

2005, Lucian, “Demonax”, in [Charles] Desmond [Nuttall] Costa, transl., Selected Dialogues, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 152:

Children ran and played by the roadside while others slept rough on the dirt. Hard skin on feet, blackened toes, tattered shorts, skin and bones.

2008, Sanchita Islam, “The Pink House”, in Sarah Broughton, editor, Gungi Blues, Brentwood, Essex: Chipmunkapublishing, page 47:

But there is perhaps no more visible manifestation of austerity than the disgraceful levels of homelessness we see in Britain today. Tents and mattresses lining the streets of towns and cities across the country, home to people forced to sleep rough, have become an increasingly common sight.

2018 October 28, “The Observer view on the budget and the decade of austerity”, in The Observer, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-10-19:

They sleep rough nearby under duvets and sleeping bags, lying next to each other to keep warm.

2023 December 22, Robyn Vinter, “‘That’s how we’ve got to live’: the black market in England’s shoplifting capital”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(idiomatic) Of a homeless person, to sleep outdoors, particularly as opposed to sleeping in a shelter or similar.


fox sleep

(idiomatic) feigned sleep while actually alert


sleep hygiene

The control of behavioural and environmental factors in order to ensure effective sleep.


ageless sleep

She is, indeed, most wondrous fair: Gold of sunshine in her hair. Lips that shame the red, red rose. In ageless sleep, she finds repose. The years roll by, but a hundred years, to a steadfast heart, are but a day.

1959, Erdman Penner, Sleeping Beauty (film)

(mythology, fiction, fantasy) A magical state of suspended animation, where-in the recipient is placed in a state of ageless, deathless, everlasting sleep. Well-known examples are Endymion (the lover of the Greek moon goddess, Selene), and the princess from Sleeping Beauty.


eternal sleep

She is, indeed, most wondrous fair: Gold of sunshine in her hair. Lips that shame the red red rose. In ageless sleep, she finds repose. The years roll by, but a hundred years, to a steadfast heart, are but a day.

1959, Erdmann Penner, Sleeping Beauty (film)

(mythology, fiction, fantasy) A magical state of suspended animation, a state of ageless, deathless, everlasting sleep. Well-known examples are Endymion (the lover of the Greek moon goddess, Selene), and the princess from "Sleeping Beauty".

(idiomatic, euphemistic) Death, eternal oblivion


take a nap

take a nap (third-person singular simple present takes a nap, present participle taking a nap, simple past took a nap, past participle taken a nap)

takes a nap (present singular third-person)
taking a nap (participle present)
took a nap (past)
taken a nap (participle past)


hypnic jerk

An involuntary twitch which occurs just as a person is beginning to fall asleep, often causing momentary wakefulness.


up and at 'em

At 41, Jockey Richards was still up and at 'em last week, and his wrists and knees were still persuasive enough to boot home the winner in Newmarket's Icklingham Stakes.

1945 November 12, “Sport: Stretch Drive”, in Time, retrieved 2015-05-29:

[O]nly two alternative responses seem available: irrepressible up-and-at-'em chirpiness or apocalyptic hysteria.

2002 September 15, Simon Schama, “A Whiff of Dread for the Land of Hope”, in New York Times, retrieved 2015-05-29:

I padded downstairs to find everyone up and at 'em, their day leaps ahead of mine.

2011 September 9, Andrea Sachs, “Bed Check: Mountain dreamin’ in W. Va.”, in Washington Post, retrieved 2015-05-29:

Siddle is the sort of up-and-at-'em, tearaway fast bowler whom you imagine to train on raw red meat while running over a bed of hot coals.

2013 November 18, Stephen Brenkley, “Peter Siddle hungry to leave some banana skins in England's path”, in Independent, UK, retrieved 2015-05-29:

(idiomatic) Vigorously launched or launching into an activity.


sleepsuit

A warm one-piece garment worn while sleeping.


EDS

Ehlers-Danlos syndrome
Ehlers-Danlos syndrome#English

(medicine) Initialism of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome.


catch some Zs

catch some Zs (third-person singular simple present catches some Zs, present participle catching some Zs, simple past and past participle caught some Zs)

catches some Zs (present singular third-person)
catching some Zs (participle present)
caught some Zs (participle past)
caught some Zs (past)


saw logs

saw logs (third-person singular simple present saws logs, present participle sawing logs, simple past sawed logs, past participle sawed logs or sawn logs)

saws logs (present singular third-person)
sawing logs (participle present)
sawed logs (past)
sawed logs (participle past)
sawn logs (participle past)

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Snoring is supposed to resemble the sound of wood being sawn up.


sleep camel

Perhaps an analogy of a person's storing sleep to a camel's storing water.

No wonder, then, that so many take their laptops to the beach or that 'sleep camels', as they call them in Silicon Valley, those who sleep only at weekends, are becoming more common.

2001, Charles B. Handy, The Elephant and the Flea: Reflections of a Reluctant Capitalist, Harvard Business School Press, published 2002, →ISBN, page 100:

Silicon Valley has bred 'sleep camels', who store up sleep at the weekends then work long hours all week.

2001, Richard Reeves, Happy Mondays: Putting the Pleasure Back Into Work, Pearson Education Limited, →ISBN:

Sheila told her that John said musicians were like sleep camels when it came to that. They could stay awake for days when they had to.

2014, Rocky F. Catman, Meet Me at the Riverside, Lulu, →ISBN, page 198:

(slang, idiomatic) A person who habitually does with little to no sleep during the week and then makes up by sleeping a lot during the weekend.


sleep with one eye open

sleep with one eye open (third-person singular simple present sleeps with one eye open, present participle sleeping with one eye open, simple past and past participle slept with one eye open)

sleeps with one eye open (present singular third-person)
sleeping with one eye open (participle present)
slept with one eye open (participle past)
slept with one eye open (past)

Some animals sleep with one eye open, so as to remain alert to threats.

Sleep with one eye open
You have no idea what I'm capable of
Keep claiming holier than thou
My knife can stab more holes than you can count
How dare you sleep where a king once slept
And dry the tears of where his queen has wept

2019, “Brimstone”, performed by Whitechapel:

(figurative) To remain vigilant at all times, especially by remaining partially awake or sleeping only lightly so as to avoid being caught off guard.


yen sleep

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A drowsy, restless period of sleep caused by the withdrawal of such substances.


hypnogram

On the other hand, still in SAMOA, besides counting with mechanisms for generation of the hypnogram, analysis of the raw EEG for the detection of the different rhythms and transitory components is carried out by using a supplementary system.

2015 July 21, Diego Alvarez-Estevez, Vicente Moret-Bonillo, “Computer-Assisted Diagnosis of the Sleep Apnea-Hypopnea Syndrome: A Review”, in Sleep Disorders, volume 2015, →DOI:

A graph that represents the recorded stages of an individual's sleep as a function of time.


hyposomnia

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The contribution of the disordered and insufficient sleep can be avoided in the study of those mildly or moderately depressed conditions that are not obligatorily associated with disruption of nighttime sleep and hyposomnia.

2015 July 30, Arcady A. Putilov, “Physiological Sleep Propensity Might Be Unaffected by Significant Variations in Self-Reported Well-Being, Activity, and Mood”, in Sleep Disorders, volume 2015, →DOI:


kip down

kip down (third-person singular simple present kips down, present participle kipping down, simple past and past participle kipped down)

kips down (present singular third-person)
kipping down (participle present)
kipped down (participle past)
kipped down (past)

(UK, slang) To sleep somewhere other than home, forced to do so by circumstances.


oneirodynia

A violent or disturbed imagination during sleep, as in the case of nightmares and sleepwalking.


sleep spindle

From its spindle-like appearance on an EEG.

A burst of oscillatory brain activity during stage 2 sleep.


non-24-hour sleep-wake rhythm disorder#English

(pathology) Abbreviation of non-24-hour sleep-wake rhythm disorder.


asweve

asweve (third-person singular simple present asweves, present participle asweving, simple past and past participle asweved)

asweves (present singular third-person)
asweving (participle present)
asweved (participle past)
asweved (past)

From Middle English *asweven (found only in asweved), from Old English āswefan (“to put to sleep”), equivalent to a- + sweve, a word descended from Proto-West Germanic *swefan, from Proto-Germanic *swefaną (“to sleep”).
Related to sweven and sweb. Cognate with Danish sove (“to sleep”), Icelandic sofa (“to sleep”), Norwegian sove (“to sleep”), Swedish sova (“to sleep”).

The swarth night asweveth the wearied men.


sleep a wink

sleep a wink (third-person singular simple present sleeps a wink, present participle sleeping a wink, simple past and past participle slept a wink)

sleeps a wink (present singular third-person)
sleeping a wink (participle present)
slept a wink (participle past)
slept a wink (past)

From Shakespeare's "Cymbeline" Act III Scene IV.

I'm so tired, I haven't slept a wink

1968, “I'm So Tired”, in John Lennon (lyrics), The Beatles, performed by the Beatles:

(idiomatic, chiefly in the negative) To sleep at all.


sleepwrite

sleepwrite (third-person singular simple present sleepwrites, present participle sleepwriting, simple past sleepwrote, past participle sleepwritten)

sleepwrites (present singular third-person)
sleepwriting (participle present)
sleepwrote (past)
sleepwritten (participle past)

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At first it seemed like a very painless way to get my work done and I told Milly to let me sleepwrite as much as I liked. We discovered, however, that although my subconscious might lead me to the typewriter, it couldn't make me think.

1952, Morris McNeil Musselman, Second Honeymoon, page 5:

What a pity one cannot sleepwrite on the ceiling with one's finger or lifted toe.

1984, Denton Welch, Michael De-la-Noy, The journals of Denton Welch, page 260:


sleep-eat

sleep-eat (third-person singular simple present sleep-eats, present participle sleep-eating, simple past sleep-ate, past participle sleep-eaten)

sleep-eats (present singular third-person)
sleep-eating (participle present)
sleep-ate (past)
sleep-eaten (participle past)

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From sleep + eat; by analogy of sleepwalk.

Females are more than twice as likely as males to sleep-eat.

2008, Don H. Hockenbury, Sandra E. Hockenbury, Psychology, Macmillan Publishers, →ISBN, page 165:

"He's not the only one who needs it. Mom's been sleep-eating." "What? What do you mean?" I listened in disbelief as she said she'd come out into the kitchen no fewer than three times in the last couple of months and seen Betty with her hand in the breadbox.

2014, Stephan Eirik Clark, Sweetness #9, →ISBN:

Topiramate has been described as being particularly efficacious in people who sleep-eat as their non-REM parasomnia.

2015, Himender Makker, Matthew Walker, Hugh Selsick, Oxford Case Histories in Sleep Medicine, →ISBN:

Because he was diabetic he'd sleep-eat in bed.

2015, Kelly Carlin, A Carlin Home Companion: Growing Up with George, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN:

I must've done what Liam used to do as a kid: sleep-eat in the middle of the night and deny it in the morning.

2016, Dima Zales, Anna Zaires, Limbo: The Last Humans: Book 2, Mozaika Publications, →ISBN:

Recent studies showed that some patients experienced sleep-eating, where they would dream about food and in their drugged-induced coma, they would actually get up to prepare a meal.

2016, Kathie Johnson, The First Storm, AuthorHouse, →ISBN:

(intransitive) To eat in one's sleep; to eat while asleep.


sleep-fuck

sleep-fuck (third-person singular simple present sleep-fucks, present participle sleep-fucking, simple past and past participle sleep-fucked)

sleep-fucks (present singular third-person)
sleep-fucking (participle present)
sleep-fucked (participle past)
sleep-fucked (past)

Slamming the front door, he then gets into his Volvo and drives to Blandview's brothels in view of sleep-fucking unwilling females.

Even before she could jokingly warn Mr. I Don't Nap not to sleep-fuck her again, he'd fallen asleep.
She didn't mind aggressive sex, but she suspected Ronin hadn't been conscious of his actions. "What? He was sleep-fucking you?" That did sound ridiculous.

2014, Lorelei James, Bound: The Mastered Series, Penguin Group, →ISBN:

(informal, vulgar, rare) To have sex (with someone) in one's sleep; to have sex while asleep.


reverse cycler

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Maybe you could market this amazing invention to mothers of reverse cyclers all over the world.

2013 May 27, coniferous, “Reverse cyclers”, in WhatToExpect.Community.Babies (Usenet):

The upside with a reverse cycler is that you may not have to do as much expressing during the day.

2014, Diane Wiessinger, Diane West, Linda J. Smith, Sweet Sleep: Nighttime and Naptime Strategies for the Breastfeeding Family, →ISBN:

A nursing infant that tends to feed mostly at night and sleep mostly during the day.


sleep black

sleep black (third-person singular simple present sleeps black, present participle sleeping black, simple past and past participle slept black)

sleeps black (present singular third-person)
sleeping black (participle present)
slept black (participle past)
slept black (past)

(historical) Of a chimney sweep: to sleep unwashed, still in a sooty condition.


big eye

He would permit Mrs Leeming, he said with a sly Irish smile, to visit the pit site only if she got a full night's sleep, no big-eye, no waiting up for the midnight sun.

One of the favorite myths of polar expeditions involves the "Big Eye," the fierce insomnia which is said to persecute the new arrival and which has been lent an almost legendary aura.

1969, Gay Gaer Luce, Julius Segal, Insomnia, Doubleday, page 7:

They had a cinema with several shows each week, but I missed these. There was provision for 'the big eye', their term for insomnia, so that anyone afflicted could watch a movie at virtually any time.

2009, Jon Stephenson, Crevasse Roulette, Rosenberg, →ISBN, page 113:

(Antarctica) Insomnia due to the lengths of the days and nights in the polar regions.


sleep out

sleep out (third-person singular simple present sleeps out, present participle sleeping out, simple past and past participle slept out)

sleeps out (present singular third-person)
sleeping out (participle present)
slept out (participle past)
slept out (past)

To sleep throughout the duration of; sleep off.


somniphobia

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Due to somniphobia, Jason has a compulsive habit of getting out of bed and changing his clothes at night.

People may worry throughout the day about not being able to sleep. This worry can cause difficulties with focus or concentration. Often, somniphobia arises from a fear of having nightmares or experiencing sleep paralysis.

2022, Cleveland Clinic, Somniphobia (Fear of Sleep):

(uncommon, psychology) Fear of falling asleep; fear of a disaster while sleeping.


couch a hogshead

couch a hogshead (third-person singular simple present couches a hogshead, present participle couching a hogshead, simple past and past participle couched a hogshead)

couches a hogshead (present singular third-person)
couching a hogshead (participle present)
couched a hogshead (participle past)
couched a hogshead (past)

I couched a hogshead in a Skypper this darkemans.

1566, Thomas Harman, A Caveat or Warning for Common Cursitors, T. Bensley, published 1814, page 66:

Ben mort, shall you and I heave a bough, mill a ken, or nip a bung, and then we'll couch a hogshead under the ruffmans, and there you shall wap with me, and I'll niggle with you.

1611, Thomas Middleton, “The Roaring Girl”, in Arthur Henry Bullen, editor, The Works of Thomas Middleton, volume 4, published 1885, act 5, scene 1, pages 128–129:

Mayhap we have been in the same bousing ken or stalling ken at some time. Mayhap we have couched a hogshead at the same house in Southwark.

(obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) To lie down to sleep.


morphetic

en-adj

morphetic (comparative more morphetic, superlative most morphetic)

more morphetic (comparative)
most morphetic (superlative)

I am invulnerably asleep at this very moment! In the very centre of the morphetic dominions.

1796, Frances Burney, Camilla, Or, A Picture of Youth:


sleep like a dog

en-verb

sleep like a dog (third-person singular simple present sleeps like a dog, present participle sleeping like a dog, simple past and past participle slept like a dog)

sleeps like a dog (present singular third-person)
sleeping like a dog (participle present)
slept like a dog (participle past)
slept like a dog (past)

Skookum Bill, full of restless, tireless energy when on the trail, now passed to the other extreme. He slept like a dog, sixteen hours a day, rising to eat and smoke, and then falling back in his bunk, where he coiled himself very much like a hibernating bear. He was stupid with sleep, drugged with it, and he did absolutely nothing, leaving all the work to his partner.

1922, A. M. Chisholm, A Thousand a Plate:


treacle sleep

en-noun

treacle sleep (usually uncountable, plural treacle sleeps)


unwoke

(archaic, poetic) Not having been woken.

Finally, there came his involvement with Markle. […] a woman of colour and a feminist whose presence in his life would soon require that he forcefully denounce racism and sexism in the British press (and, I trust, among his more un-woke friends and relations).

2018 May 5, Margo Jefferson, “No Cinderella: Margo Jefferson on the real Meghan Markle”, in The Guardian:

Today’s culture war is being waged not between religion and secularism but between groups that the Catholic writer Matthew Schmitz has described as “the woke and the unwoke.”

2022 June 2, Nate Hochman, “What Comes After the Religious Right?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(colloquial, chiefly Canada, US) Not woke, especially in social justice contexts.


sleeping draught

sleeping draught (plural sleeping draughts)

In the evening, when the princess came and brought him his drink, he made appear as if he drank, but he threw it over his shoulder, for he felt sure she had put a sleeping draught in his drink.

1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 240:

'My wife always takes a sleeping draught when travelling by train. She took her usual dose of trional.'

1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 7, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 123:

(dated) A liquid medicine that induces sleep.


hide-a-bed

From a trademark, presumably from hide a bed or hideaway bed.

In addition forty-eight hide-a-beds were replaced in the Northwood III project and ninety-five hide-a-beds were reconditioned. Twelve refrigerators were replaced in Northwood II apartments.

1964, The President's Report to the Board of Regents for the Academic Year 1964-1965, University of Michigan:

Looking around the room, Timothy saw that its far wall contained two more hide-a-beds, both of them unmade.

2004, Alfred D. Byrd, Through the Gate of Horn:


sleep of the just

From the idea that people who act justly have no worries and so sleep well, while unjust people are concerned about the consequences of their actions and so sleep poorly.

Make your mind easy, Percival. Sleep, my son, the sleep of the just; and see what I will do for you when daylight comes to help us both.

1859 November 26 – 1860 August 25, [William] Wilkie Collins, “The Narrative of Marian Halcombe, Taken from Her Diary”, in The Woman in White. […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, […], published 1860, →OCLC, part I, page 139, column 2:

Then—Smith went to bed, and slept the sleep of the just, with not a glimmering of an idea that he was not the unselfishest and lovingest of husbands.

1867 October, “Mr. and Mrs. Smith’s Headaches”, in I[saac] W[illiam] Wiley, editor, The Ladies’ Repository: A Monthly Periodical, Devoted to Literature and Religion, volume XXVII, Cincinnati, Oh.: Poe & Hitchcock; […], →OCLC, page 612, column 2:

He slept the sleep of the just, with just that gentle whisper of a snore which Aristotle hints at to prove that virtue being, as she must be, in the mean, doth in the neutral third of life maintain a middle course between loud snore and silent slumber.

1876, R[ichard] D[oddridge] Blackmore, “So is Mr. Sharp”, in Cripps, the Carrier. A Woodland Tale. […], volume I, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, […], →OCLC, page 169:

That night, as Grimley Grange was sleeping the sleep of the just, two shadowy forms crept through the shrubbery by the library window with all the stealthiness of professional house-breakers.

1915–1916, John Lea, “Sir Guy’s Atonement: A Christmas Term Story”, in The Boy’s Own Paper, volume XXXVIII, part 3, London: “Boy’s Own Paper” Office, […], →OCLC, page 134, column 1:

After the gentleman and Senator [Mariano Jesús] Cuenco interpellated me, I knew already that my bill was hopeless. That is why I presented that bill on February 4th, but it slept the sleep of the just in the Committee on Education.

1958 May 9, [Roseller Tarroza] Lim, “Manifestaciones del Sen. [Decoroso] Rosales”, in Republic of the Philippines Congressional Record (Senate of the Philippines), volume I, number 67, Manila, Philippines: Bureau of Printing, →OCLC, page 1343, column 1:

You would probably not say he was sleeping the sleep of the just, unless you meant the just asleep, but it was certainly the sleep of someone who was not fooling about when he climbed into bed of a night and turned off the light.

1988, Douglas Adams, chapter 3, in The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, trade paperback edition, New York, N.Y.: Gallery Books, published October 2014, →ISBN, page 20:

Lennie Doria tapped on my door a couple of nights later while I was cramming (Nate had been in the rack for an hour or more, sleeping the sleep of the just and the caught-up) and asked me if I had any interest in writing a paper about Crispus Atticus.

1999, Stephen King, “Hearts in Atlantis”, in Hearts in Atlantis, trade paperback edition, New York, N.Y.: Scribner, published November 2017, →ISBN, chapter 14, page 386:

All night long, she tossed and turned in bed, envious of Nennella, who shared the same room but didn't question things very deeply. The maid slept the sleep of the just, and a faint whistling came from her nose, like babies when they have a slight cold.

2016 September, Vito Bruschini, chapter 25, in Anne Milano Appel, transl., The Prince, New York, N.Y.: Atria Paperback, →ISBN, page 172:

vanhurskaan uni (in partitive singular with a verb)


somnetic

en-adjective

somnetic (comparative more somnetic, superlative most somnetic)

more somnetic (comparative)
most somnetic (superlative)

Before I could get him a somnetic inducer, he was out cold on the floor.

2008, Terri Osborne, That Sleep of Death: Slings and Arrows #4:

(science fiction, rare) Pertaining to sleep.


rise with the lark

en-verb

rise with the lark (third-person singular simple present rises with the lark, present participle rising with the lark, simple past rose with the lark, past participle risen with the lark)

rises with the lark (present singular third-person)
rising with the lark (participle present)
rose with the lark (past)
risen with the lark (participle past)

(idiomatic) To be awake and out of bed early in the morning.

nousta kukonlaulun aikaan

early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise


in the arms of Morpheus

In Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Morpheus is the god of dreams, and subsequently he was often referred to as the god of sleep. The name is borrowed from Latin Morpheus, from Ancient Greek Μορφεύς (Morpheús), from μορφή (morphḗ, “form, shape”) (alluding to the fact that Morpheus appeared in dreams in the forms of different people) + -εύς (-eús, suffix forming masculine nouns indicating persons concerned with particular things).

[N]ight had covered the world with her sable curtain, and wrapped the peaceful sisterhood in the arms of Morpheus.

1821 April 14, The Literary Gazette: or, Journal of Criticism, Science, and the Arts […], volume I, number 15, Philadelphia, Pa.: James Maxwell, […], →OCLC, page 238, column 3:

[L]ong before Julian had closed an eye, the heavy breathing from Sir Geoffrey Hudson's pallet declared that the dwarf was already in the arms of Morpheus.

1822, [Walter Scott], chapter XII, in Peveril of the Peak. […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC, page 303:

Benjamin here fell back in his chair, and soon gave vent to certain ominous sounds, which resembled, not a little, the growling of his favourite animal, the bear itself. Before, however, he was quite locked, to use the language that would suit the Della-cruscan humour of certain refined critics of the present day, "in the arms of Morpheus," he spoke aloud, observing due pauses between his epithets, the impressive terms of "monkey," "parrot," "pic-nic," "tar pot," and "linguisters."

1823, [James Fenimore Cooper], chapter XV, in The Pioneers, or The Sources of the Susquehanna; […], volume I, New York, N.Y.: Charles Wiley; […], →OCLC, page 221:

[A]s we were tired with the excitement and fatigues of the day, we were soon folded in the arms of Morpheus.

1853, [George Ballentine], chapter XVIII, in Autobiography of an English Soldier in the United States Army. […], New York, N.Y.: Stringer & Townsend, […], →OCLC, page 202:

"I think that the travellers would do well to abandon themselves to the arms of Morpheus," said Vasili Ivanovitch. / "That means that it is time to go to bed," said Bazarof. "I approve of the proposition. Come!"

[1867, Ivan Sergheïevitch Turgenef [i.e., Ivan Turgenev], chapter XX, in Eugene Schuyler, transl., Fathers and Sons […], New York, N.Y.: Leypoldt and Holt, →OCLC, page 144:

[T]he watcher of the corporation, […] shifted about and shuffled in his box before composing his limbs again in the arms of Morpheus.

1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 16: Eumaeus]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part III [Nostos], pages 593–594:

Old Rip Van Winkle's long sleep record, which, according to [Washington] Irving’s story of the famous legendary character of the Hudson Valley, was 20 years, is excelled by each of us who lives to a fairly ripe old age. Thus truth is again stranger than fiction, says Dr. Donald A. Laird, of Colgate university, for by the time we are 60 years old we have spent 20 years or one-third of our lives in the arms of Morpheus.

1932 September 17, “Modern Rip Van Winkles”, in The Pathfinder, volume 39, number 2020, Washington, D.C.: Pathfinder Publishing Co., →OCLC, page 18, column 1:

You and the men under you go to sleep on duty, or desert your post and while you are wrapped in the arms of Morpheus or A.W.O.L. our enemies break through our lines, destroy all the fortifications which we have started[…].

1939, F. C. Devericks, “Report of the Chief of Staff”, in Proceedings of the 39th National Encampment of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States: Columbus, Ohio, August 21 to 26, 1938 (76th Congress, 1st Session, House Document; no. 39), Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 139:

He looked over his shoulder and saw that Susan was still safely in the arms of Morpheus as the bedclothes gently rose and fell.

2013 March 15, Jan Cheal, chapter 5, in The Bee Keepers, Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 24:

(literary, figurative) Asleep, sleeping.

The [Arturo] Toscanini Tour left Italy for the United States, and the continued interest sustained by the progress of the tour brought us back to the war days when we breathlessly awaited the communiqués of offensives and counter-offensives. After which we fell back into the arms of Morpheus. The only signs of life to be found are at the Contanzi Theatre in Rome.

[1921, Music News and Herald, London: Publishing Office, →OCLC, page 333, column 1:

(by extension, figurative) In a state of being completely forgotten, or of unawareness.


cold pig

cold pig (third-person singular simple present cold pigs, present participle cold pigging, simple past and past participle cold pigged)

cold pigs (present singular third-person)
cold pigging (participle present)
cold pigged (participle past)
cold pigged (past)

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(transitive, slang, dated) To throw cold water all over a sleeping individual's bed and body to wake them.


orthosomnia

Orthosomnia is a psychological condition recently identified by Baron et al. [3], who analyzed the behavior of fitness trackers users who used these devices to track their sleep.

2018 April, Linda Anticoli, Marco Basaldella, “Shut Up and Run: the Never-ending Quest for Social Fitness”, in WWW '18: Companion Proceedings of the The Web Conference:

Orthosomnia, the “perfectionistic quest for the ideal sleep in order to optimize daytime function”, is sadly becoming more prevalent, arguably due to increased sleep tracker use [73].

2018, Megan Roberts, Why Your Ketogenic Diet Isn't Working Part 2: Sleep and Circadian Rhythm:

In our view, this is an exercise of diminishing returns, and may actually impair quality of their sleep and cause orthosomnia, a condition where a person has a perfectionist quest to achieve perfect sleep. (Baron et al, 2017).

2019, Captain Allison Brager, Meir Kryger, A New Approach: Integrating Sleep Science and Consumer Wearables to Improve Access and Drive Greater Engagement, page 10:

An unhealthy obsession with achieving the correct amount and type of sleep.


sleepies

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slumbercoach

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(rail transport) A type of sleeping car.


beauty rest

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Synonym of beauty sleep (extra sleep or a special nap)


go night-night

go night-night (third-person singular simple present goes night-night, present participle going night-night, simple past went night-night, past participle gone night-night)

goes night-night (present singular third-person)
going night-night (participle present)
went night-night (past)
gone night-night (participle past)

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Teddybear says it's time to put away your toys and go night-night.

(colloquial, childish) To go to sleep; to fall asleep.


sleep like a rock

sleep like a rock (third-person singular simple present sleeps like a rock, present participle sleeping like a rock, simple past and past participle slept like a rock)

sleeps like a rock (present singular third-person)
sleeping like a rock (participle present)
slept like a rock (participle past)
slept like a rock (past)


Better Sleep Month

May — is Better Sleep Month. It's also National Barbecue Month.

1993, Joe Magadatz, One Thousand One Ways Not to Be Romantic, Sourcebooks Incorporated, →ISBN:

May is Better Sleep Month, American Bike Month, Flower ...

2009, Ginger Carter-Marks, The 2009 Weird & Wacky Holiday Marketing Guide, Ginger Marks, →ISBN, page 27:

For example, among its many designations, May is Better Sleep Month. Combine this bit of trivia with recent research that found that too many Americans aren't getting the recommended seven to eight hours of sleep a night; add the fact that ...

2013, David E. Sumner, Holly G. Miller, Feature and Magazine Writing: Action, Angle, and Anecdotes, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 231:

The month of May, observed to raise sleep quality awareness.


hypnoinductive

en-adj

hypnoinductive (comparative more hypnoinductive, superlative most hypnoinductive)

more hypnoinductive (comparative)
most hypnoinductive (superlative)


fever dream

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An intense or confusing dream, often caused by fever.

koortsdroom

an intense or confusing dream, often caused by fever


halfsleep

en-noun

halfsleep (usually uncountable, plural halfsleeps)

Nick found Judah still out on the floor next to the open and emptied safe. Winded and slobbering in a halfsleep.

2021, Michael Farris Smith, chapter 55, in Nick, New York, Boston, London: Little, Brown and Company, page 269:

State between being awake and being asleep; light sleep.

félálom

state between being awake and being asleep


catathrenia

Catathrenia (from the Greek kata, meaning “below”, and threnia, meaning “to lament”)

(pathology) Groaning while falling asleep or while sleeping.


in the sack

I'm pooped—I'll be in the sack if anyone needs me.

Her girlfriend was amazing in the sack.

I'm sorry for all those things I said to you last night. You're not the worst fuck I ever had. Believe me, I've had worse. You don't puff or snorkel and make death-like rattles. As a matter of fact, you're rather serene in the sack.

1976, Paddy Chayefsky, Network, spoken by Diana Christensen (Faye Dunaway):

(idiomatic, slang) In bed (either literally or figuratively), especially with reference to sexual intercourse.


sleep in heavenly peace

en-verb

sleep in heavenly peace (third-person singular simple present sleeps in heavenly peace, present participle sleeping in heavenly peace, simple past and past participle slept in heavenly peace)

sleeps in heavenly peace (present singular third-person)
sleeping in heavenly peace (participle present)
slept in heavenly peace (participle past)
slept in heavenly peace (past)

(idiomatic) To sleep very well and untroubled.


sleepcation

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(I know moms who live for their “sleepcations”—they either hit a hotel for a night or just wait for the kids to be away at Grand-ma's or a slumber party, then they climb into bed at eight p.m., […]

If your debt is over 40 hours, a “sleepcation” could change your life. This is where you check into a hotel for three nights, dim the room as much as possible, avoid stimulants, and let yourself sleep day and night.

2014, Alan Christianson, The Adrenal Reset Diet, page 104:

I spend a lot of time in my clinic telling couples it is okay to sleep apart sometimes. I have dubbed this a "sleepcation".

2017, W. Chris Winter, The Sleep Solution:Why Your Sleep is Broken and How to Fix It, Penguin Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 115:

(informal) A break from ordinary activities in order to catch up on missed sleep.


sleep terror

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lack of sleep

The condition of not having slept enough at any given time without any specification of cause. (This entry is a translation hub.)

sleeplessness

typically meaning sleep was repeatedly in lack, compare slumberlessness avoiding this implication


coronasomnia

Most of the information sleep experts have on coronasomnia is anecdotal, but there is plenty of it. And a report from the National Institutes of Health highlighted a study early in the pandemic that “revealed very high rates of clinically significant insomnia” along with more acute stress, anxiety and depression.

2020 September 23, “COVID-19 is wrecking our sleep with coronasomnia – tips to fight back”, in UC Davis Health, archived from the original on 2023-06-02:

It could be that 'Coronasomnia' provided the necessary nudge for people to be more intentional about sleep, so that their longer-term practice is now better.

2021, Steven P. MacGregor, The Daily Reset: 366 Nudges to Move Your Life Forward, Sheepdog Press, →ISBN, page 148:

You've probably heard of “coronasomnia” by now (and maybe even experienced it). The sleep problem, a clever combination of the words corona and insomnia, has become quite common in my clinic since mid-2020 […]

2023, Abhinav Singh, Sleep to Heal: 7 Simple Steps to Better Sleep, Humanix Books, →ISBN, page 115:

(informal, neologism) Insomnia resulting from stress or anxiety brought on by the coronavirus pandemic.


good night's sleep

en-noun

good night's sleep (plural good nights' sleeps)

(colloquial) A period of good sleep during a particular night.


cry oneself to sleep

en-verb

cry oneself to sleep (third-person singular simple present cries oneself to sleep, present participle crying oneself to sleep, simple past and past participle cried oneself to sleep)

cries oneself to sleep (present singular third-person)
crying oneself to sleep (participle present)
cried oneself to sleep (participle past)
cried oneself to sleep (past)

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(idiomatic) To cry until or to fall asleep.


eepy

en-adj

eepy (comparative eepier, superlative eepiest)

eepier (comparative)
eepiest (superlative)

Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *slēpaz
Proto-West Germanic *slāp
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Proto-West Germanic *slāpag
Old English *slǣpiġ
Middle English slepi
English sleepy
English eepy
Clipping of sleepy. The term was initially popularized by the "and why he eepy?" meme which first appeared in late 2021. The word rapidly increased in popularity from late 2022 through 2023.

etymon

God's eepiest soldier.

Do not feel like getting up an going to work....im so eepy

2012 August 25, @sweetladii24, Twitter, archived from the original on 2023-08-25:

So Eepy

2014 February 17, @FinnSoftCoat, Twitter, archived from the original on 2023-08-25:

and why they eepy 😹

2021 December 21, @loonateeen, Twitter, archived from the original on 2023-04-14:

and why he eepy and confortable.. snooziign...

2022 March 31, @normalgirl222, Twitter, archived from the original on 2023-04-10:

The bigger they come, the eepier they fall

2022 October 1, @_janey, Twitter, archived from the original on 2023-07-25:

good morning from the eepiest girl in the world

2022 November 11, @cistem_offendaa, Twitter, archived from the original on 2023-07-25:

There was a light fixture thing in my unit's bathroom that I didnt even know about this morning. I woke up to the worker knocking my door so I was still eepy and clueless.

2023 March 13, u/finger35, “So embarrassed”, in Reddit, r/UBC, archived from the original on 2023-07-02:

I'm going eepy dawg i got my blankets on me dawg I'm so eepy i got a pillow under my head I'm ready to snooze dawg I'm ready to start goin honk shoo honk shoo

2023 March 27, u/lolpoopmoop, “anyone down to chat im bored”, in Reddit, r/teenagers, archived from the original on 2023-04-15:


biphasic sleep

Beginning in the 1700s, the industrial revolution—its light, its caffeine, its clocks, and above all, its work schedules—took Europe’s biphasic sleep in its hairy arms and mushed the two phases together.

2022 January 27, Derek Thompson, “Can Medieval Sleeping Habits Fix America’s Insomnia?”, in The Atlantic:

The practice of sleeping twice per night, interrupted by a period of wakefulness; common in the days before electric lighting during the season with longer night.


sleep aid

A drug (most commonly a pill) or nutritional supplement used to help the consumer get to sleep.


non-24-hour sleep-wake disorder
non-24-hour sleep-wake disorder#English

(pathology) Abbreviation of non-24-hour sleep-wake disorder.


snag some z's

en-verb

snag some z's (third-person singular simple present snags some z's, present participle snagging some z's, simple past and past participle snagged some z's)

snags some z's (present singular third-person)
snagging some z's (participle present)
snagged some z's (participle past)
snagged some z's (past)


disco nap

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"It's the leather circuit," explains David, 34, an actor-director, similarly attired. "Took a disco nap around eight, then we cruised, drank, and had a lot of personal drama.'

1997 December 8, Ian Spiegelman, “The End of the World Cafe”, in New York, volume 30, number 47, page 51:

Take a disco nap before you head out for a night on the town, and get plenty of rest the next day.

2010 July 20, Esther Blum, Eat, Drink, and Be Gorgeous: A Nutritionist's Guide to Living Well While Living it Up, Chronicle Books, →ISBN, page 117:

"What's a disco nap?" he asks. "It's a nap you take before clubbing," I say. "Maybe for you it is," Kent says, a twinkle in his eye. Tom doesn't look so sure of himself anymore.

2023 April 4, Tony Correia, One Summer in Vancouver, Lorimer, →ISBN, page 108:

A nap taken to elevate (refresh) one's energy, often before an activity or outing.


honk-shoo

[SOL. Mike is lying in bed. There is a clock on the headboard.]
Mike: Honk-shoo. Honk-shoo.
Crow: [whispering] Our invention today is for people who are always late in the morning because they repeatedly hit their snooze alarm.

1994 October 11, Charles Ray, “[Msted] Timesync”, in alt.tv.mst3k (Usenet):


vampire time

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But what would he have thought about the female character in a novel I recently read who, noting that she was in her menstual period, called it 'vampire time'?

1985, Dennis Joseph Enright, Fair of Speech: The Uses of Euphemism, page 58:

Thus the curse of Eve and the monthly blues give way to sanitary protection and menstual health. On the street things are a bit different, of course. There it's vampire time.

(euphemistic, slang) A woman's menstrual period.


sleep funny

sleep funny (third-person singular simple present sleeps funny, present participle sleeping funny, simple past and past participle slept funny)

sleeps funny (present singular third-person)
sleeping funny (participle present)
slept funny (participle past)
slept funny (past)

My back hurts this morning; I must have slept funny.

(idiomatic) To sleep in a position resulting in muscle or joint pain upon waking.


sleep-deprived

en-adj

sleep-deprived (comparative more sleep-deprived, superlative most sleep-deprived)

more sleep-deprived (comparative)
most sleep-deprived (superlative)

Pulling an all-nighter can leave you feeling sleep-deprived.

Being kept awake to the point of noticeably lower alertness through a lack of sleep; experiencing sleep deprivation.


sleep well

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A farewell said shortly before going to bed; usually said between family members or good friends.